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നായ്കളോട് എന്തിനിത്ര ക്രൂരത!

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           (Stray dogs in Kerala) നായ്ക്കളെ വാഹനങ്ങളുടെ പിന്നിൽ കെട്ടിയിട്ടു കൊണ്ടു വാഹനം വേഗത്തിൽ ഓടിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് പോകുക. എത്ര ക്രൂരമായ പ്രവർത്തിയാണിത്. ഇവർ മനുഷ്യരോടും ഇത്തരം ക്രൂരത കാണിക്കാൻ മടിക്കുകയില്ല. ഈ ഭൂമി നമ്മുടെ മാത്രം കുടുംബ സ്വത്തല്ലെന്ന ബോധ്യം ഇല്ലാത്തതു കൊണ്ടാണ് ചിലർ ഇത്തരം ക്രൂരതകൾ കാട്ടുന്നത്. ഇന്നത്തെ പത്ര വാർത്തകൾ കണ്ടാലറിയാം. നൂറു കണക്കിനു നായ്ക്കളെ ആണു കഴിഞ്ഞ ഏതാനും ദിവസങ്ങൾക്കുള്ളിൽ കൊന്നൊടുക്കിയതെന്നാണ് SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) ആരോപിക്കുന്നത്. കുറേ നായ്ക്കളുടെ ശരീരം പോസ്റ്റ്മോർട്ടം ചെയ്തെങ്കിലും മരണ കാരണം വ്യക്തമായി കണ്ടു പിടിച്ചില്ലെന്നാണ് മനസ്സിലാകുന്നത്. നായ്കളോട് ഇങ്ങനെ ക്രൂരത കാട്ടുന്നതിൽ സർക്കാരും, കോർപറേഷനും, ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട സംഘടനകൾക്കും ഒന്നും തങ്ങളുടെ ഉത്തരവാദിത്വത്തിൽ നിന്നും  ഒഴിഞ്ഞു മാറാനാവില്ല. നായ്കളുടെ എണ്ണം ക്രമാതീതമായി വർദ്ധിക്കുന്നെങ്കിൽ വ്യാപകമായി വന്ധ്യംകരണത്തിനുള്ള നടപടികൾ സർക്കാർ തലത്തിൽ എടുത്തെ പറ്റു. അലഞ്ഞു നടക്കുന്ന നായ്ക്കളെ പുനരധിവസിപ്പിക്കാൻ സർക്കാർ തന്നെ പദ്ധതികൾ തയ്യാ...

INDIA IS RICH BUT MANY INDIANS ARE POOR

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Despite being a rich country with large resources and huge manpower to exploit those, we are unable to raise the standard of living of a large population. We could not provide education to all. No result oriented efforts could be made so far to eliminate corruption from every nook and corner of our country. In short, we do nothing practically to multiply our GDP with proper management of our available resources. While the GDP of India is close to the rich countries the PCI of about 25% of our population is below poverty line. Now we cannot take it for granted that the current generation can do any miracle. Alternatively, we must prepare our coming generations to take our country to new heights. Before doing anything else we must eliminate corruption from this country. The next dangerous thing is the stinking politics. Throw out the politics and find a way to successfully establish true democracy here. Then comes another perilous concern that is fast spreading; religion. Our...

KNOW THEM - THEY ARE WITH MIRACULOUS MEMORY

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.                              (Alex Mullen) We  may find below the World Record Holders  for highest memory. Dave Farrow  holds the Guinness World Record for memorizing maximum number of playing cards. He could remember the sequence of 59 decks of shuffled cards (3068 cards) in a single sitting. Alex Mullen   An American physician who held world championship in memory test. He holds world records in 12 memory disciples. He could successfully recal 3238 digits in an hour surpassing the earlier record of 3019. He was the world champion in 2016-19 and 2022-23. He graduated from John Hopkins University sity (Biomedical engineering, Applied Mathematics and Statistics). He also had a degree in medical science from Mississippi University. Akira Haraguji  Akira Marilu holds the unofficial world recof for pi reciting with over 100,000.digits, while Chao Lu.the Chinese with 67,980...

UNEVEN WEALTH HOLDING IN INDIA

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Where  India is placed in the world with it's economic status is not the place provided for the Indians. India is placed 6th  now in the world in GDP ranking  now (slipped from 4th to 6th in April 2026) India (rather Indian population) rank 139 in GDP per capita nominal- 2023 and 127 in GDP per capita PPP 2023. These clearly indicate that the people and the country are placed at quite  distant spots. According to Forbes (India) the PCI of the top five GDP countries are given below.  GDP per capita in USD thousand is: USA - 80.03, China - 13.72, Japan - 35.39, Germany - 51.38 India - 2.6 It can be seen from the above list that India is placed far below with a paltry sum. As per a report by The Times of India on 26 January 2023, 1% of the rich population of India hold 40% of the wealth of the country. The report further reveals that the bottom half of the Indian population hold just 3% of the wealth of the country. According to a report of Oxfam Intern...

HOW IS THE REAL KERALA PEOPLE?

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This  is not being written with the help of any approved statistics but from quite extensive experience. I have widely travelled in India and mingled with people from different regions. The people of Kerala are gifted with a super status in literacy. I don't think it is a great achievement. If all the Indian states have the literacy standard of LKG, Kerala is at UKG. That much is the difference. Kerala is nowhere near the advanced countries of the world There is no society in the world who prevent their own economic development, but Keralites are the one. During the past decades hundreds of industrialists came here with many proposals to start industries here but the people turned them away. A large group of South Korean industrialists came here with large novel proposal of household industries. They made this proposal considering two things; a) educated and skilled man power, b) scarcity of land. Though there was large scope for this the state has rejected it outright....

OLD AGE PENSION

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India rank 41 out of 44 countries in old age pension. There are 14.9 cr people in India aged 60 and above as on 2022. This is 10.5 % of the total population. We may find here the old age pension prevailing in some selected countries in the world. UK £12,792 p.a. (Rs 13,35,485) or Rs1,11,290 per month. France $1,327 p.m. (Rs1,10,592) Netherlands EUR 1230.24 + holiday allowance 72.04 =EUR 1302.28 (Rs1,18,911.p.m) Many countries in the world are paying old age pension more or less in the same level as shown above. But unfortunately we old age people are considered scrap by our great country. According to National Policy on Sr Citizens 2011 the estimated population of Sr Citizens would be as below (in millions) Yr.        Popula-     60+        80+             tion 2000     1008         76           6 2050     1...

BRAIN DRAIN FROM INDIA

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In the health sector, India being the largest populated country in the world, has 1.7 nurses per 1,000 population and 1.0 doctor per 1,404 population. According to WHO norm there should be 3 nurses per 1,000 population and 1.0 doctor per 1,100 population. As per the report of Ministry of External Affairs 32 million NRIs and OCIs are now living abroad. About 2.5 million people are leaving the country every year. These make Indian citizens the highest numbers settled abroad. Annual remittance from them in 2020-21 was $87 billion which contributes 2.75% of the GDP. In 2024  ( FY). the total remittance  from Indians abroad  reachad approximately $135 tomorrow to $138 billion.(the exact figure may be got confirmed) While the successive governments might be looking it as a positive sign, if get into it deeply we may find that it may not be so positive. We may see an example for this. Let us imagine about a big family of large members having plenty of fertile land. T...