PVK’s Book Mark
Here is a list of all my blog posts.
PVK Blog Posts: list with titles
1) 1 ‘PVK’s ‘Knowledge and the Campus: The Hrydayakumari Endowment Lecture 2024’. Words: 4198.
2/ PVK’s Introduction to feschrift to Dr C R Soman titled ‘Kerala: An Introduction’. Words: 2167.
3) PVK’s essay: ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Thinker On Meera Nanda and the Kerala Model’. Words: 1108.
4) PVK review of ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ by Arundhati Roy. Words: 2236.
5) PVK Talk on AIR Trivandrum in 2023 titled ‘Onam in the Time of our Grandchildren’. Words: 1101.
6) PVK review of Namit Arora‘s ‘The Lottery of Birth On Inherited Inequalities’ ‘Outlook’ Magazine. Words: 2347.
7) PVK Blog lecture titled ‘The Law, the Truth, and the Humanities’ delivered at Mar Gregorious College for Law 2024. Words: 4439.
8) PVK article in ‘Malayala Manorama Year Book 2011’ titled ‘50 classics’. Words: 5574.
9) PVK essay: ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Thinker On Meera Nanda and the Kerala Model’. Words: 1028.
10) PVK’s review of A. N. D. Haksar’s ‘The Gathering of Seasons’. Words: 896.
11) 11 PVK talk on A I R Trivandrum on Kerala Piravi Day 2024. Words:1576.
12) PVK’s essay ‘Fenced by the Thread’ on the Vaikom Satyagraha originally published by ‘Outlook’ magazine. It was the cover story of the magazine dated 7/Feb/2024. Words: 1990.
13) 13 PVK review of Manu Pillai’s ‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’. [Published in ‘Frontline’ on 17/Nov/2024, both the print edition and its online version.] Words: 4302.
14) 14 PVK snippets written for ‘Dimdima’. [3 short pieces. ‘Hockey’, ‘Rockets’ and ‘Space: The Indian Story’.] Words: 1739.
15) PVK Letters to New York Times. Words: 1029.
16) PVK’s conversation with Robin Jeffrey at Modern Book House, Trivandrum. On 12/Dec/2018. Words: 7242.
17) PVK Blog ‘Asan and Germany’. Address at the Goethe Zentrum on 5/ Feb/2024. Words: 900.
18) PVK review of ‘The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labour and Immigrant Dreams in America’ (2023) by Saket Soni. Words: 1556.
19) PVK Blog ‘Nothing No Zero Zilch Manu Pillai’. [Acc Google, probably the only blog post in the world that was 6 pages long, but had only 63 words. The rest was made up of lines of zeros.] Words: 63 + 6 pages of zeroes.
20) PVK Blog. Final Report and Assessment of ‘The English Audio Club’, an activity I ran for about 11 years, first at the Government Victoria College, Palghat and then at the Government College for Women, Trivandrum. Words: 6326.
21) PVK Blog Post. Shradha Sreejaya’s report on ‘The English Audio Club’ an extra mural teaching programme run by P. Vijaya Kumar at the Govt. College for Women.
22) PVK Blog Post. PVK’s’ Final Report on ‘PVK’s Beyond the Syllabus Programme’ – 2008 – 2011 at the Government College for Women, Trivandrum. Words: 6314.
23) ‘What the Doctors Do Not Tell You About a Surgery for Cataract, parts I & II. Words:
24) PVK’s Blog Post. PVK’s short reviews for Amazon. Words: 3525.
25) PVK Blog Post Book Review of Alexander Clapp’s ‘Waste Wars’. Words: 2209
26) PVK Blog Post. Essay titled ‘Waning Nanda / Waxing Manu’. Words: 1627.
27) PVK Blog Post Speech at the launch of Dr Kasi Viswanathan’s memoirs at Trivandrum.
28) PVK Blog Letter to the Editor New Indian Express Trivandrum on 5 Oct 2011 on Kanayi Kunhiraman’s lies / clarifications. Words: 369.
29) PVK Blog Post. PVK’s book recommendations to a group of PG students of the Trivandrum Medical College titled ‘Beyond the Bubble: The Literature of Fact’.
30) PVK Blog Post. PVK’s book review of G Aravindan’s ‘Cheriya Lokayum, Valiya Manushyanum’. Originally carried on the digital version of ‘Frontline’ on 5/Feb/2025. Words: 1698.
31) PVK Blog Post. PVK’s book recommendations to a group of PG students of the Trivandrum Medical College titled ‘Beyond the Bubble: The Literature of Fact’.
33) PVK Blog Exposing Kanayi KK interview. Words: 1438.
34) PVK Blog Thoughts on a grandfather’s death centenary. Words: 789.
35) PVK Blog Post. ‘Report on the ‘Redeemer’ Boat Accident that killed 24 people including Kumaran Asan’. Words: 1375.
36) PVK Blog. IISER Trivandrum. PVK’s Humanities Course 2016 Vas 121 Theme Updating Resources and Guide to Resources .doc. Words: 1269.
37) PVK Blog Post. ‘Devika Ammachi and Her Cruel Deeds’ On Mallory Cherlokski and How She was Thrown Under the Bus by the Resident Queen of ‘Post Modernism’ Words: 2858.
38) PVK Blog Post on Hinduism. In 3 parts. 1. Dr Ajai Singh’s paper ‘The Unity of All Religions’. 2. My response to ‘The Unity of All Religions’ & 3. PVK’s reading list to supplement his arguments. Words: 13524.
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40) PVK Blog post ‘Conversation wtih Meera Nanda PVK and Shradha Sreejaya’ February 2025 at Modern Book Depot Trivandrum.
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Thank you. I will keep adding to this, as time permits.
P. Vijaya Kumar / PVK
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Thank you. Nandri. Namaskaram. PVK 01/June/2026