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MONEY EVERYWHERE!

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While some sweat blood to get a few chips of money, there are others who do their level best to spend the large money in hand but they are unable to do so. Some years ago during a train journey, a co-passenger, might be a recently retired government official, during casual discussion, said the following. Some parents give over Rs 10,000/- to their young children studying in high school every month as pocket money. A family of husband and wife with young kids and old parents have six new cars in the house. A person  who is doing business abroad visit his home town in Kerala a few times every year. Before every visit he sends his high cost car ahead of him and takes it back when returns. I am told that there are many families who are going abroad every year for a period of one week to three weeks. It is a routine affair for them. I was surprised to hear that there are many people around us who can get Rs 100/- crores or more in cash any time . I have heard about a foreign...
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CLIMATIC CHANGE, A CATASTROPHE

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Before and after images of the Hawaii Hawaii fire According to a CNN report the  arctic winter storm of the past couple of years y has spread havoc in United States. 22 people have already been died. Over three lakhs houses spent their Christmas without power. Food supply has been interrupted at different parts. Snow has been mounted on houses, roads and market places. Burning of fossil fuel,  destruction of forests and the warming up by greenhouse gases are pointed out by climatologists as the prime causes for climate change  on earth. According to a global study about 45% warming up has happened in the past few decades. While 4% of warming takes place caused by the whole African continent and one third of the world warming is caused by China alone. The wild fire of the past year in Hawaii killing large number of people is also reported to have caused by the climatic change. The ongoing flood in various parts of India is also the after effects of climatic cha...
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SHAMEFUL SILENCE BY PEOPLE

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(Images courtesy - Kerala Koumudi and Times of India) As  per the findings of the state vigilance department,  about 45% of the roads have been severely damaged within 6 months from construction. There can be two reasons for this. One may be that we do not follow the recognised scientific methods  for road construction. The other may be that the allotted money in full is not spent on road construction. In both cases the authority concerned must give satisfactory answer to the people. Unfortunately, however important the issue may be, our people with so called political awareness, would never react, until someone with a political flag in hand will lead them. We must take up the issues concern us by our own. At least let us bring it to the notice of the judiciary by some of us together. People are falling dead on the road and the people responsible for the deaths are walking freely unconcerned. We still prefer to call the system 'democrac...
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WORLD OF SATANISM

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There are Satanic Churches and Satanic Temples in different parts of the world. However, they do not believe in building or such establishment for performing their rites. Satanists do not believe in any form of gods. They, however, say that Satan is a symbol not a being. Their youth assemble in the nights, black clad and listening to death metal music. They also sacrifice animals. Satanism is said to have founded in 1960. Though they call themselves Satanists, many of them do not worship Satan in any form. In fact they are atheists. They look for individual freedom, community activism and performing bizarre rites. When founded, they explained themselves as, "Satan to us is a symbol of pride, liberty and individualism and it serves as an external metaphorical projection of our highest personal potential. We do not believe in Satan as a being or person." They also say, 'the name Satanism is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and...
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HERE IS A CHALLENGE TO ALL POLITICAL PARTIES

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(Finance Minister John Mathai presents the first budget of India on 28 February 1950. Image courtesy, Mint) Every political party while assuming power to rule, announce a set of offers for the people. Sometimes in course of time both the parties as well as the people forget these big offers and surprisingly no one is brother about these great offers. In fact after every election if one make a list of offers given and what are achieved against each offer always find wide gap. Instead of giving such unattainable offers, why not each government record the existing pci while assuming power and every year while presenting the annual budget, the past year's and the current year's pci may announced. This will help the people to truly evaluate the performance of the ruling government. This may be taken as a challenge by the people as well as by each government representing different political parties. K V George  
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HONESTY, THE JAPANESE WAY

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Sometimes back an Indian made a trip to Japan in connection with some business matters. During the stay in Japan, one day he travelled in a city bus there. After getting down from the bus at the destination he noticed that he lost his purse. He immediately asked a Japanese person found close by that where could he find the nearby police station. That man asked him why he is looking for the police station. Our friend told him that he was from India and he lost his purse in the bus. The Japanese then asked him whether his address or local contact could be found in the purse . He told him that he was staying in a hotel and the card of the hotel is available in the purse. The man said. "Nothing to worry. By the time you reach the hotel, the purse would be available there."  Our man reached the hotel after sometime and told the story of the missing purse to the receptionist. He then picked the purse and gave him. He found that nothing was lost from the purse. Someone w...
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INDIA DURING THE PAST TEN YEARS (2014 - 2024)

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Despite having large resources to exploit, and large number of young and qualified manpower available, for one reason or the other, we could not tap those resources and deploy the manpower. Had we exploited those adequately we could have brought our unemployment level to zero, the per capita income of our people could have been brought up to a much higher level. Our export earnings could have been carried to a higher level. Similarly the import could have brought down considerably. We could also looked for a zero population below poverty line. We must not ignore certain facts prevailing in our country. A good share of our population do not have their own houses. Many of our people are suffering from serious diseases and they don't have enough money to avail proper treatment. There are countless number of parents in our country who cannot provide education to their children. However, despite collecting large sum from the people our governments do not focus their attentio...
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