Normal And Abnormal

For  quite sometime our mode of protest remains the same. We the people as a whole of some regions confront with some serious problems and then look at each other's faces and remain there murmering something. Some fellow suddenly arrive at the scene. He places himself at some tall spot and start delivering a speech by accusing some departments and officials. By the time some of his chelas reach  with some flags. The neta  then form a procession and leads the affected people to some offices and shout big slogans. At the office the  neta gives some threatening speech. It continues for a day or two. The people are normally led to stop vehicular traffic, forcefully down the shutters of all shops of the area. And it continues for two or three days. Police arrives the place and arrest some people. Finally some officials sit and talk with the people. And they say they will look into it. Let us find an end to this comedy game. When you have an individual or socia...

We  all quite frequently say that I know him very well. We say that we are so conversant to him, know all about his family and we are so well versed about his character. In fact do we know what we utter? Not at all must be the answer. Now let us turn back to ourselves and ask the same question. Do we know ourselves? If so to what extent? Our answer may be so paltry and too petty because we do not know anything about ourselves but pretend to know all about others. It is the same thing that makes us to curse others and praise ourselves. All that others do are wrong and all that we do are right. Almost all human beings are suffering from this mental trauma. It is nothing but an idiotic state of mind. We do not know about ourselves is the truth, but we are reluctant to admit it. We act as if we know all about ourselves. And that befool us. We keep on playing foolish games in front of others and also with ourselves. Let us now admit the truth that we do not know anything abo...

We  call our home state Kerala 'God's Own Country'. During 2022 the revenue from tourism to the state is USD 552.69 million (Rs 4,500 crores) Projected earnings from Tourism in top countries of the world are: (In billion USD) USA - 190.4 China - 154.1 Germany - 66.23 Japan - 40.28 UK - 39.14 (Published by Statista Research Department on March 15, 2023) From the above list it could be found that how paltry is the earnings from Tourism in Kerala in comparison with the above countries. Our concerned departments and tourism specialists may have enough explanations to substantiate our poor performance. However, before straightening our backborn we must ask ourselves about what we have done to enhance the revenue from tourism. When we individually take the tourist destinations like beaches, forest with wild animals, boating through lakes, large greenary filled land, series of green and black hills etc,  there may be many better beaches, forests etc in different countr...

Many of us feel that we are misunderstood by others. Those include our own family members, our close friends and relatives, our superiors and coworkers and the list may go on and on. Why it happens so? Is it so that we are not able to present our true self. Generally people on first sight of a new one who could be moved around closely in the future, create a person in him. Later if the same person is found in him, he may fall in the category of the expected personality. Even a minor variation noticed shall make him a strange one and all that is observed in him shall be seen as strange and negative. Those around us always expect our personality to be one matching with their design. If not, we cannot be in the category of good one. They will never try to see the true person in us. But by the time they realise our true self it would be confined to a few words, "I am sorry for I couldn't understand you." Therefore, it is always preferable for us not to compromise ...

For quite sometime the fishing community in Kerala have been trying to highlight their adversity at various levels. Unfortunately no one could offer a lasting solution for these. Petty helps like subsidised food or kerosene or something of that sort would do nothing to uplift this oppressed community. More effective and lasting approaches should be adopted. The easy and simple methods towards this is suggested below. All concerned may go through this and find means to implement this. Sometimes back a leading Malayalam daily reported a news bit on fish price. 'Sardine fishes auctioned at Kochi fishing harbour for about Rs 25/- per kg was sold at the main road side half a kilometre away for Rs 65/-. This is continued everywhere in Kerala. The state government may interfere in this and facilitate the fishermen to sell their catches to the ultimate consumer. Government can arrange to provide them transport vehicles and sales outlets all over the stat...

(Chinese spy ship Yuan Wang 5 research vessel: image courtesy - The New Indian Express) (The Hambanthota Port - image courtesy: The Business Standard) Chinese spy ship 'Yuan Wang 5' is reported to be heading towards Hambanthota port of Sri Lanka. The ship is likely to be docked there by 11th. China Merchant Port made an investment of $1.12 billion and bought 85 percent stake in Hbanthota International Port Group under an agreement with Sri Lanka Port Authority in 2017. This agreement also created an economic zone  of 15,000 acres land which comes under Chinese control. Surprisingly this lease agreement is valid for a period of 99 years. Had India gave adequate diplomatic attention before arriving at such a situation it could have been safely avoided. Now making some sounds here is not likely to yield any results. Whatever is happened is happened. It cannot be corrected now. The only possible solution to overcome this unwanted situation is to have a secre...