Normal And Abnormal

          (Image courtesy -                  Dreamstime.  com) Literacy rate of India in 2022 is said to be 77.7% whereas it is 96.2% in Kerala. We may try to find the truth behind these claims. As per the census records of 2011 graduates in India is a mere 8.15% (98.6 million) Countries with highest literacy in the world are Lithuania (99.82), Tajikistan (99.80) and Azerbaijan (99.79) Though the rate of literacy looks to be slightly above the rate of literacy in Kerala, the faculties between them are considerably different. While our standard of literacy is just reading and writing of one's name, theirs are far superior. We must immediately come out of the present idiotic concept of literacy rating and should recast the literacy standard. Currently the literacy standard in India is that of the LKG. Every two years we must upgrade it, i.e. after two years we must fix it to UKG and then to class 1, 2, ...

                      (Vijay Mallya) Patricia Kluge John Kluge was once the richest in the world. His personal wealth in 1990 was $5 billion. At the time of divorce John's wife Patricia Kluge was left with $1 million in alumni and she also received the lavish estate in the Virginia country side. She developed the estate into a winery and vineyard. She then took a loan of $65 million to start a real estate business. She built over a dozen luxury villas. Patricia was forced to default on her loans after the banking and housing crisis in 2008. That led to the sale of Virginia estate and her other valuable possessions. She came to the rock bottom level. The Virginia estate, winery and vineyard of Patricia Kluge was purchased by Donald Trump. Vijay Mallya Vijay Mallya took over the business from his father at the age of 28. He turned this into a multi-billion dollar business firm. He himself became the "King of Good Times." H...

2024 Paris Olympic competition Venue.s From the last Olympic held in Paris from July 26, 2024 to August 11, 2024. India's performance was below par. What we secured was one silver and five bronze. Countries which are below ten percent of our population and youth resources could bag more medals than us.We could not compete with even small countries in the sports arena. Unfortunately neither our successive governments nor the large number of sports bodies our country is managing with could not produce the desired results.  Our performance in the past three Olympics are given below. (P - participants, G - gold, S - silver, B - bronze, T - total and R - rank) 2012 (London) Countries 204 P 83, G 0, S 2, B 4, T 6, R 55 2016 (Rio de Janeiro) C 207 P 117, G 0, S 1, B 1, T 2, R 67 2020 (Tokyo) C 206 P 124, G 1, S 2, B 4, T 7, G 48 2024 Paris G 0, S 1, B 5 What a shaneful performance by a large country wth over a population of 140 crores. The top six countries in the 2012 medal t...

Many countries in the world including India, count balance of trade in USD. The normal procedure is that when export revenue of all private agencies received in USD are credited in government account and in turn the payment to the concerned exporters are made in the relevant currencies of the countries. The foreign exchange thus goes to the government do not have any considerable impact on the internal economy but when equal value of local currency is circulated which causes inflation. Though it doesn't stand with the demand and supply theory, excess circulation of money brings down the value of the local currency. This in turn becomes like too much money run after too less number of goods. That causes price rise or inflation. This is the same thing happens in export revenue too. K V George 

Youth of India is now vulnerable to narcotics, both in using as well as trading. It is spreading fast in schools and colleges. All concerned departments of the Central and State governments must sit together with various sections of the society including educationalists, sociologists, religious leaders etc to find ways and means to ward off this evil from the whole country. We must systematically frame the methods to find the last end of the thread. Once one end of it is in hand, the other end is certainly reachable, howsoever it may be delayed. We have such intelligent people available in all departments. One of the most important thing to take care is that if any political party is involved in this distructive method of money making such parties should be straight away banned for ever. Similarly any government officials are found to have involvement in this trade should be dismissed forthwith. All those connected with flight cargo, passenger flights and all those in and a...

Political opinion depends upon the place where one sit. ******** Political opinions are formed between dusk and dawn. ******** If ambition is Everest peak, certainly it cannot accommodate 760 crores people. ******** While people vote for democratic government, the ruling generally goes like monarchy regime. ******** Political ideology is the expertise to convert any wrong to right and any right to wrong. ********* Democracy is the most flexible imaginary concept which can be shaped in to any forms. ********** Political flag is the thickest curtain to prevent the view of all that take place behind it. ********** K V George