Normal And Abnormal

Lenin, Stalin and Mao: The three biggest Communist mass murderers. Based on house hold survey the poverty rate in China reached to 63% of the population in 1981. This was declined to 10% in 2004. This indicates that about 500 million people have climbed out of poverty during this period. Ownership by the state and centrally planned economy had earlier brought them to this utmost poverty status. Privatisation began to accelerate after 1992 and the private grew as percentage of the GDP. In fact it was not a sudden turn around but a post Mao transition from 1976. Now China has reached at the No 2 position in GDP after US. GDP per capita income is reached USD 13,806 by the end of 2025. At present China is known to be ranking 99 in the list of world countries in GDP per capita income as of 2025 by IMF. We must remember the vast tide of oppression, tyranny and mass murder that communist regimes unleashed upon the world. Historians and others have accounted numerous atrocities by ...

Most essential items to produce any goods are just two. One is sufficient earth and the other is human labour. We Indians have these two in surplus. But, we are far behind to many countries in producing goods and selling them to other countries. Neither our people nor our governments are focusing on these two to make ourselves wealthy and self sufficient. China is in the forefront and in combining these two elements properly and serve the world and serve themselves. We prefer to weep on our poverty. The government is extending subsidies to reduce the poverty than using our surplus resources to eradicate poverty. I would like to call upon my fellow countrymen to form groups one after the other to produce goods and services and sell those in the international market. If we can produce high quality goods in a fast pace and offer at a low price, there may be enough takers and that will remove our poverty. We can also stand among the rich in the world. K V George 

According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey the unemployment rate in India has a declining trend: 2020-21= 4.2%, 2021-22 = 4.1%, 2022-23 = 3.2%. The percentage of unemployment shown above may appear to be not very high in comparison with other countries. While looking at our large population these cannot be small in numbers. Over and above these when we add the figures of under employed, those unaccounted found in large numbers in the agricultural sector, the youth passing out every year etc into consideration the actual figures may be much higher. We may also keep in mind that there are countries like South Africa with 29.8%, Djibouti with 27.9%, West Bank/Gaza with 25.7% etc have high rates of unemployment. While assessing the employment rate,  the median age too holds significance. Countries with lowest median age are, Niger 15.3, Uganda 15.7 and Mali 16.2. When we take the work force, India is on the best layer of the median age 28.4 (29.8). The median age of Japa...

Our  political leaders when have a large gathering to listen, say, economic development of India is something easily achievable one. We may overtake China in another few years! We will be among the advanced countries of the world! And very soon by political parties' loud speakers we may listen that we are going to be the richest in the world! Speakers continue with their tall speeches and the listeners continue to clap their hand. Our one-way traffic media reports make these great speeches reach as much people as possible. But what is hidden from probably most of the people are: 1) considerable amount of about 1.5 billion population still live below poverty line or close to the line above, 2) a large amount of our population are between illiterates and below matriculation, 3) ours is one of the most unsafe country for women in the world, 4) countless number of people are begging in streets across the country, 5) unknown number of children are unable to attend the school...

There  are many instances of allegations of corruption against government officials, ministers, political functionaries etc in Kerala through news media time and again. In response to this the people as a whole do not react considering that their hard earned money is being swindled by antisocial elements. 'Don't mind, let them have it', seems to be the general attitude of the people. The general earnings of the state through government for 2023-24 is: Public debt - 36.9% of GSDP Budget balance -(-Rs 39,662 Cr) Revenue - Rs 1.36 lakhs Crs Expense - Rs 2.76 lakhs Crs Then comes agriculture. Nearly half of the population is engaged in some sort of agricultural activities. Marine products trading and exports is another significant field of earing. About 65% of the income of the state comes from different sectors like IT, real estate, tourism, insurance, banking, transportation etc Over and above these about 1.5 lakhs crores rupees are brought in to the state every y...

    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...