On the 30th of January this year, I had a “chat” with Anand Jon’s sister Sanjana Jon. Not an interview - a chat. I got in touch with Sanjana through a mutual contact. I don’t know Anand Jon or his family personally but wanted to understand more about what her family is going through. I published the transcript unedited on the same day.

A certain Abhi (IP 65.71.124.237) from Houston posted the third comment. He gave his email as a@hotmale.com and URL as therealmutiny.com

His comment was:

Give me a break. I hope the bum rots in jail.

All very nice. Everybody has a right to an opinion. Even if it doesn’t mean presuming someone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law  - or atleast until the trial begins - but hey - who am I to judge (sic).

Then I was told of this (he initially linked to our old site and then later changed it to the current url) by a fellow mutineer. It was funny - really seemed liked he had lost it.

First he calls Mutiny.in, “The Great Indian Mutiny” - nice - but we are known simply as, “The Mutiny” or “mutiny.in” officially - an honest mistake perhaps since he linked to the old site to start with. 

Then he goes on to claim to Mutiny.in (the great Indian Mutiny according to him) is “named after this blog”. Now that’s desperation at it’s heights. He doesn’t care to explain how it is named after “this site” - I don’t think it matters - his motives seems to be to personally attack me. A cowardly ‘hit and run’. And this is not the first time, he has done it about three times in the past.

You will not find any reference or link - positive or negative on the Mutiny to SepiaMutiny. The Mutiny doesn’t say it’s “named” after anybody. I wonder if Abhishek Tripathi considers Sunny Kalara’s Sepoy Mutiny  also “named after his blog”. Perhaps even the Bangalore based band, Mutiny - also the Mutiny Hotel.

The last time I checked - I don’t think “mutiny” name is exclusively owned by anyone. Maybe Abhishek Tripathi is talking about group blogging - perhaps he invented it too. He also invented the term “mutineers” - how cool is that? You never know, maybe he is guy who invented basmati rice as well!

It might be helpful to have a look at Internet Archives site. Have a look who had a “mutineers” page up first. Who had a facebook group up first? Have a look, you will be amazed - I certainly was.

I’m happy the way Mutiny.in has shaped up. Today it has over 50 mutineers and is the top blog in India. Over 75 per cent of it’s readers are based in India. Almost 100 per cent is India centric content. Certainly not a “brown-is-the-new-black-clique-lovefest” it was accused of  being”named after” by a wannabe.

I hope someone in Nasa’s HR has a good look at Abhisek Tripathi’s mental health. I’ve heard they could get pretty dangerous. I’ll make sure to drop each and every one of them an email. 

Seriously. How many of you guys can show off hatemail from Bhutan?

I’ve made a few posts on Mutiny.in and my wife Honey made a few posts here to keep things rolling.

Now I intend to be more regular here.

Its Mary’s first holiday outing in 7 months and mine in 23 years…………..dont ask me why!

Jacob and I was a little worried at the start of the trip for Mary. We had to literally carry her whole wardrobe for her but it was more than worth it. I believe she enjoyed it more than anyone:-)

Munich was fabulous. We spent the first two days in the city and the last day in the Bavarian country side. We were lucky to have the advantage of having a local friend to show us around, which means we had more than regular tourist fun…haha. Thanks to Volker and his lovely family.

Im sure everyone comes back from Europe with a wow feeling. I was talking to Tina yesterday, she spends a lot of time for work in Ireland. What I found most interesting in Munich was how Catholic the place was. They had amazing churches and all the old bavarian houses had Jesus and Mother Mary clad on all walls on their homes,paintings on cupboards, cricifix inthe hallways etc. Surprisingly they have the same photos or drawings you could say as the religious pictures seen in Kerala. And I have it all covered. Our friends named me photo graphy freak. Jacob had to throw in that comment quite often just to not feel embaressed with me clicking away every minute. They will thank me later…Im sure!

Lately Jacob is occupied with all the activity on mutiny and I’ve run out of excuses for not getting on this site. So, for now, I’ll update the Puthenparambil family story for everybody and Jacob will peek in occasionally to entertain you with his great posts.

I should really go back to Kunju Mary’s baptism which we obviously missed out.

Amma, Appan,Tina and Rosemol was in Dubai for an amazing two week vacation. After which we all went down for a 3 day vacation to pulincunnu. Kunju Mary’s first trip home. She was baptised on the 1st of June at Latin Church in Trissur. Latin church particularly and Achankuttan for reasons more than one
Pappa, Amma and Chettan had put up a great lunch party after. It was nice to be back home for an occasion, the last one we were there for being the wedding!

Good fun is short lived but great memory and we were all back to work in a jiffy.

It’s ok. The bearded phase in my life is now over. Yesterday, I finally shaved.

For a couple of hours my daughter had no clue who I was.

Check it out and let me know what you you think