The book is an affectionate, light-hearted tribute to the Kerala of the nineteen seventies and eighties, and everything that made it the place that it was. This was the time when the largest centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had been established in the suburbs of the capital city Trivandrum (now Thiruvananthapuram), bringing with it a sudden influx of people from all over the country. The resulting tumult created in the peaceful...