Picture of myself when I am REALLY thirsty...

This is just for those who wonder who it actually is who writes with such great cheer :-)

And for the ones who watched closely, let me say "No prizes on offer for guessing the brand!"

Upcoming visit to Trissur Pooram

Am excited to be travelling to the place where the gods buy coconuts - Kerala ;-) next weekend for the mega festival there called the Pooram - look forward to hearing the sophisticated rhythms of the chenda mELam and their ilk - I have been witness (by eye and ear) to the great drums during the Sabarimala season in my own Coimbatore. Standing right next to the drummers themselves, it is quite a task not to get drowned in the rhythms, and the legs do start dancing as if they have a separate neural system. And there is the right amount of repetition to the drumming to enable any layman to catch the location of the beats and the beautiful pauses between them and sync with it. This is certainly a very traditional art form that India can be proud of...

And there will be elephants all over the place - would love to be among the audience of the 'All-Kerala Tusker Congregation' or shall we say 'Akhila-Kerala Gaja SammELanam'. I will need to take an infrasonic sensor and my handy copy of "Elephant lingo for Dummies" to check on the proceedings...

I will be publishing my pet-project book after the trip called Lingua pachydermiana. This will impart invaluable knowledge on the following topics and more:

a. How to say "Hi", "Please" and "Sorry" using a trumpet
b. If you are lost in a forest, How to ask an elephant the way to the nearest city by emitting the right infrasonic frequencies
c. How to use a tuning fork to drive an elephant mad

Check out my other bestselling books on related topics:

"On Tusks, Trumpets and Thick Skin"
"All you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask about the ivory business" (hehehe)


Will be posting a travelogue + some snaps hopefully once back...

Till then, its Adios from me...