Normal And Abnormal

    The New Parliament of India  For over seven decades India is standing proudly in the world as independent nation. We are among the top layer of the world in GDP. We manufacture plenty of products of international standard and sell among different countries. We have educational institutions and hospitals recognised by many countries. While all-round development is taking place in our country, we do not give adequate attention to refine our democracy. About 1.5 billion population depending wholly on our democratic establishments. Unfortunately our democratic establishments do not take adequate care to restructure our parliamentary democracy as it needs to be. For instance, one with no knowledge of law can be a law minister; an illiterate can be an education minister; a health minister need not hold any medical degree, and so on. We need certain alterations in such fields. For instance, it must be compulsory that a law minister should hold a law degree, healt...

You  may have a look at the famous faces when they were young. Priyanka Chopra Steve Jobs (18) Sean Connery Angelina Jolie (11) Britney Spears (11) Madonna (7) Barrack Obama Merielyn Monroe Jackie Chan Elizabeth Taylor Lady Gaga Jennifer Lopez David Beckham Narendra Modi In a school play Salman Khan Shahrukh Khan Virat Kohli Rahul Gandhi M S Dhoni Aravind Kejrival (Indebted to the report of Akrash Mehrotra in Scoop Whoop Media and another report by Inga Korolkovalte in Bored Panda, also from other websources) K V George

In many people the decision to vote to which party is influenced by their parents and grandparents. The time is changed and the world around us too is changed considerably. Along with that every bit of information is at our reach. We can evaluate each party, their past performance, the charector of their leaders, the fundamental nature of each party, their promises for the future, their efficiency and resources to achieve the promise and such many other aspects.  We should not go for any petty consideration. Our nation should hold the prime significance. Corruption is the deadliest weapon held by many parties. If we do not get out of this all-round corruption prevailing in our country it will destroy the people and country one day. When your vote is a clean one, it should be received by a clean one too! K V George 

While we Indians feel we are safest in our motherland than anywhere in the world the following figures really horrify us. We murder  about half a lakh people every year. Let us remember that there are over ten countries in the world where the population is less than a lakh.  Homicides in India in the recent times. 2015 - 44,373     2016 - 42,320 2017 - 41,017     2018 - 40,985 2019 - 40,479     2020 - 40,651 2021 - 41,330     2022-  30,000 (Indebted to the report by Knoema for figures from 2015 to 2021. According to a report by The Hindu there are about 85 murders per day) According to world crime statistics of 2023, India ranks 81 with crime index of 44.4 When we take rape cases in India the following are the reported figures. 2021 - 31,677   2020 - 28,046 2019 - 32,032   2018 - 33,356 2017 - 32,559   2016 - 38,947 2015 - 34,655   2014 - 34,735 2013 - 33,707 In...

(Strike in a production unit in Palakkad. Image courtesy, Times of India) Undoubtedly there is only one claimant for the economy of Kerala as we see today. That is none other than the people of Kerala. Since independence, with bare minimum education, our people moved out to other states across the country. The huge outflow was towards the then Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. They worked hard to meet their needs and send the remaining back to the homes. Later few people moved to Malaya (today's Malaysian region), Persia (Gulf countries) Sheema (England) etc. These all together laid the economic foundation of Kerala. Later with higher education and competitive knowledge and skills our past generations moved all over the world. Our past spirit and experience brought our today's generation to one of the most intelligent and skillful people of the world. And that brought the external remittance to Rs 2.2 lakh crores per annum. None of our political parties tried to pool thi...

A few years ago an interview with a foreign lady had appeared in a Malayalam publication. She came to Kottayam by a KSRTC bus. She walked from the bus stand to the central junction. During this short walk, she said that twelve times people had laid their hands on her. It may not be a uncommon thing for the women folk of God's own country. In another instance, a city bus conductor of Ernakulam, during noon time when there were less passengers in the bus, conciously laid hands on the body of a school girl (I think that the man was later arrested by the police.) In another heinous act a 76 years old women was picked from the way side somewhere from north of Trissur, and according to the media reports she was  raped by a young man and thrown to the road side and some passerby had later rescued her. Recently there was a media report about a fifty plus man sentenced to imprisonment for raping a minor girl. Such things goes on and on in the God's own country. These things ...