Normal And Abnormal

Norway ranks top in the world for safety of women. Women can travel through the isolated streets or busy cities any time during day or night without the slightest apprehension. Can an Indian women ever imagine about this in her own country? Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Switzerland,. Sweden, Austria, UK, Netherlands etc are also safe countries for women. Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen are in the bottom of the list as far as safety of women is concerned. The Women's Peace and Safety Index shows the worst countries in the world as per their rankings below. 1. Afghanistan 2. Syria 3 . Yemen 4. Pakistan 5. Iraq 12. Somalia  17. Bangladesh 22. India.  This list is not a honour for our country. We may be looked down by the world. Who are responsible for this situation? Not one but many. The number one is our successive governments. If proper identification and stringent punishments were ensured we could have ensured safety for women in our country. If safety of wo...

Top - Kalaram temple, Nashik, Maharashtra Middle - Thriprayar Sri Ram temple, Kerala Bottom - Ram Mandir, Bhubaneswar, Odisha    These three subjects have created lot of problems and taken countless number of lives across the world. While the prime subject God is something beyond human brain. Most of us fail to understand that truth. Some people have some scattered thoughts about God and such ones are creating confusion in simple human minds. Hinduism and Christianity say that God Himself have appeared first and from Him everything else came into being. The Big Bang theory of the modern science also suggests that a tiny particle came into being first and from that all space, time and matter came into being. Since all these three suggest same thing about the beginning it can be safely concluded that all those in the universe have come into existence from God. In other words all these are in the universe is God Himself. Whether it is sun, moon...

"Aging is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Anonymous Most people in their 20s and 30s become too instable and carrying lot of stress in finding a job and overcoming the financial burdens. By reaching over 60 these stress slowly fade away and start enjoying a life they have made and, therefore, happiness   and well being  are with you. Semantic memory - your knowledge of the world and experiences, including recollection of facts and figures resist aging. Older people tend to write things down and organise their lives in a way that benifits their memory. Seniors are better decision makers,  more emotionally stable and become less impulsive than their younger peers according to research. Old people know the value of their time, energy and happiness. Stress in life are reduced as their children leave the house, they retire, and they have more time to do the things they really want to do. Comparing to the younger ones, the...

Converting a massive population into voting instruments by a handful of people representing different political parties with common interest is made to be called as 'Democracy' in India now. For a good number of people it is an easy way to amass wealth with the so called consent of people. Every action by these 'People's representatives ' deemed to have consent of the whole people. Yet the people do not react. Because they have not taught what is democracy and how to react upon. May be the least preference given in some of the Indian states is for education. Even after about a century of self governance the literacy rate of our country is about 78% with Kerala 96% and Bihar 47% (2011) on both ends. However, in reality, the average literacy of our country must be below 50% because the definition  given for literacy is, anyone above 7 years who can read and write (one's name) is literate. The literacy criteria should be changed upwards every year to th...

Kingdom of Romania was seated in Brand Castle in 1920. Today it is called as the Bran Palace, but it is renowned all over the world as the Dracula Palace. It is now opened to visitors as a historical museum and is the prime attraction for tourists. This horrifying but beautiful castle is surrounded by lush greenary and gives beautiful and attractive look yet with a spooky touch. Count Dracula, the 1897 book written by Bram Stoker is the most portrayed literacy charector with over 700 plus appearances across the world. Countless number of authors have written books on this. Bram Stoker's novel alone was translated in over 30 languages in the world. When we take the total translations in the Asian, European and other countries in the world by all the authors, Dracula may be the most translated novel in the world. Dracula holds the Guinness World record for the most portrayed literacy charector in film with 538 charectors including cinema and tv as on 2015 overtaking Sherl...

(2020_21 Farmer's protests in India) Harthal is a form of protest. It is self sacrificing protest. In order to earn something that democratically eligible for people collectively do this protest. The impact of this protests in all forms are born by the people themselves. The concerned authorities are generally not the losers. Indian farmers strike of 2020-2021 was the largest protest of the world with a participation of 250 million people. This was followed by the Earth Day 1970 with 20 million and Iraq war protest of 2003  with 30 million globally were the other major protests in the world. According to available information for the period of 2009-2014 there were an average of 200 Harthals/protests every day in our country which makes a total of 4,20,000 protests during this period of five years. The government do not have any detailed and perfect account of the loss due to these protests. However as per available information due to the farmers strike in 2020-2021 peri...