Normal And Abnormal

 We  shall have a quick journey through the capital cities of some selected countries. London Washington DC Moscow Ottawa Paris Tokyo Berlin Canberra Madrid Beijing New Delhi K V George

               (First published on Aug 23, 2022) Indian economy is the fifth largest in the world with the GDP at $2.94 trillion. World Economic Outlook of IMF (April 2021) was projected the GDP per capita of India as $2,191. This makes India on 144th position among 194 countries in GDP (nominal) per capita. Countries with highest GDP per capita are Luxembourg ($1,31,302), Ireland ($1,02,394), Switzerland ($93,515), Norway  ($82,244), USA ($69,375).& Iceland ($68,844) While the per capita income of India remains at 1.7% of Luxembourg and 3.16% of USA, the GDP is at the fifth position. Huge disparity can be found between the GDP and GDP pci of India. While one denotes the economic strength of the country, the other denotes that of the people. After the prime analysis of this any economist may find the reason for this as the large population sharing the big GDP. Since the truth is different, one cannot ratify this  economic...

According to the book, Corruption in India, written by Professor Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari Rs 921 billion or 1.26% of our GDP is transacted through corruptive means. Corruption in India is not just born overnight. It is prevailing here for long and finally our  billion population have admitted it as part of their life. Even the most poor one while going to a government office for any service carry something in his pocket. Why corruption is rampant in our country? Don't we have adequate laws to prevent corruption? Is there any lenience in those meant for picking the offenders? All these put together must be the reason for the growth of corruption in our country. In fact the successive governments are not taking result oriented measures to prevent corruption in our country. When our generation has totally failed to eradicate corruption from our country let us at least make the way clean for our descendents. A large percentage of poverty in our country, underdevelo...

What are the basic factors of any country that makes them economically strong is nothing other than natural resources available in that country and the people available there to exploit those and put them to use for the betterment of humanity around the world. As far as India is concerned we are rich in these two. But there are some strong forces that pull us back. Though we can easily overcome these, the system that is prevailing here for pretty long time force us to concede to those. It is high time for us to take these two steps. Step one is to fully eliminate corruption from every field. Step two is to raise our literacy to 100%. For that we must raise our standard of education. Minimum qualification for anything in the country should be made graduation. In order to achieve that educational expenses upto graduation, other than specialised subjects should be brought down considerably. As far as corruption is concerned, the existing laws should be rewritten in...

            (Hydroelectric plant) Ranking of countries by the quality of electricity supply, based on the report of 2019. Country  Bahrain, Trinidad and Tobago,  Taiwan, Chile, South Korea, Finland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and                  Iceland                               100          Israel                               99.9     Belgium                                99.8 Japan                                    99.7 Countries with the lowest access to electricity. South Sudan  - 7%      ...

"Jesus answered him,  "If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?" (John 18:23) Just on hearing something said by Jesus, the guard hit Him without knowing what He said. The poor guard could not answer the Lord therefore. This is what we see right from the very moment He was arrested from the garden upto the very moment Pilate announced the sentence for His crucifixion until death. No one till the last moment could point out a single error for His punishment. Since Jesus came to this world for all the sufferings He had and finally for the sacrifice on the cross, Jesus accepted everything without any protest. Jesus, therefore, gave Himself for saving the entire humanity of this world. K V George