Normal And Abnormal

We all frequently say about others and sometimes about ourselves the words of praise, the self-made one . If I say that no one is self-made, many of you may disagree with me. Then I may ask you to name a few self-made persons. You are most likely to come with a long list of people who are self-made.  Okay, now I will come back to you. Is it your choice that you are a man or woman? Is it your choice, the height, colour and shape of your body? Is the eyesight your choice? The hearing power, the functions of all your external limbs are your choice? The working of all your internal organs are your choice? Is the body strength your choice? Are the memory and intelligence your choice? All the answers must be negative, I suppose. Now I shall ask you some final questions. Are your parents your choice? Is the place of birth your choice? The time of birth your choice? When you or anyone else say 'no' to all these queries, how can one say he/she is self-made? I shall, then, af...

The estimated population of the world as of 2025 is about 8.3 billion people. All that we are enjoying today are the outcome of the hardwork of countless number of people. Even every grain of rice coming to our plates are the result of many thousands of people. When we get sick we take medicine and get healed. There may be the efforts of generations behind every tablet or every drop of medicine that comfort us. Each one of us are highly indebted to many people lived here or living here. Are we thankful to those humans? Do we ever think about them? Now, coming back to us. We are in this world, may be, for a few decades. If we look at our story, have we got anything in our mind that is worth to mention that we have done for our fellow beings. When we pass away from here, how many around us and how long will remember us. Have we ever fed a hungry stranger with enough food? Have we ever sent sufficient food to a poor family of your area? Have we ever asked a tired poor one whet...

Reports appeared recently in the News Paper as well as in the WhatsApp constrained me to write this.  A patient admitted in the hospital ventilator was short of money. His relatives requested for one day's time for the remittance. The hospital refused the request and discharged the patient from the ventilator. However, the doctor was kind enough to give an advice. Since the patient was not likely to survive more than a few minutes, the doctor advised the relatives to obtain a death certificate of the patient from some hospitals on the way back home. Unbelievably, the Almighty Doctor interfered and the 'dead man' was brought back to life from the mortuary! In another instance a lady who was supplied capsules from the government hospital found some irritation after taking two capsules. She opened one capsule and found a small nail in it. She then opened one more and found similar object. She was now on the way to hospital where it was supplied from. Today's me...

According to available information only about 82.7 millions people are paying income tax in India. This works out to 6.25% of the population. In USA this is 45% of the population. It may not be that the remaining 83.75% of the population are not liable to make IT payment. Also there could be other reasons to avoid IT payment by at least some more Indians. The gross collection before adjusting refunds of Income Tax in India during 2022-23 is Rs 19.68 lakh crores. If the income of an individual in India in a FY is Rs 1.01 cr, he has to pay a sum of Rs 32,68,875 as IT including surcharge of 15% of the tax amount. The existing tax rate, under optional tax regime scheme, is as below. (The rate shown below are of 2022-23) Upto 3 lakhs -  0% 3 to 6 lakhs   -  5% 6 to 9 lakhs   - 10% 9 to 12 lakhs - 15% 12 to 15 lakhs- 20% Above 15 lakhs-30% Countries with highest rates of income tax are: Chad & Ivory Coast- 60% Sweden - 57% Denmark - 56% Austria - ...

Neville and Erskine Ebbin , two brothers died at the age of 17 years in  taxi accidents. The chilling part is that both of them died  in the span of a year, when both were riding the same moped. What is more surprising is that Erskine's accident occurred by the same taxi that killed Neville. And guess what, the taxi driver was the same man who killed Neville. Unbelievable, but true. The news paper clipping is shown above. All that are happening around, it seems, are not haphazard but pre-set and well timed!  We may find so many 'same' in these two two different accidents! K V George kvgeorgein@gmail.com

(Jawaharlal Nehru University New Mehrauli road, New Delhi. Image courtesy, Times of India) Articles 14,15,16,17 & 18 of the Constitution of India prescribe equality to all and this equality make any Indian citizen, even if one is illiterate, to become a Minister of any department and lead the people. As per this eligibility provision, an illiterate can become a minister of education and one who has no knowledge of law can become a law minister and advise the lawyers and judges.  The prime reason for this is that 140 crores Indians do not respond to anything that happens around them and they have no opinion about anything at all. They receive anything and accept with no resistance. Again there is a cause for it and that is lack of education. It may be surprised to find that seven decades after independence only about five percent of our population are graduates and about one third of the population are below primary level of education (the exact figures may be checke...