Normal And Abnormal

EVERY year at the time of new admissions in medical and engineering colleges one can find all sorts of muddle and confusion all over. These are being watched people of Kerala for quite sometime irrespective of the governments in power. Every time it is a bargain for money. The rich business men who run the colleges want huge profits. Parents of the brilliant poor students cannot afford this money. The rich parents of the 'no so brilliant students' are willing to pay this money. Representatives of the 'medical business' colleges of the neighbouring states deploy agents on commission basis throughout the state to canvas prospective students. Politicians of all brands grazing in the green pastures. The governments, one after the other, watching the whole show silently. Every year we hear big political speeches in this matter. News papers spend scores of columns to report the case and to suggest ways and means to overcome the issue. TV channels conduct special debates invo

GOVERNMENTS belong to the people. People send their representatives to run the governments. Those who are in the governments are expected to disclose the facts to the people as and when needed. The governments should not hide anything from the people unless warranted by extremely precarious situations. Under no circumstances the governments should lie to the people. Of late it has been noticed that our governments in India are deceiving the people by sheer false statements. I would like to believe that the good intention and honest statements have been purported by the ignorant people. However I leave it to the people to ascertain the purpose behind these statements by the representatives of the governments. Certain sample cases are presented below. 1) The government asked the people to get Aadhar cards immediately. These cards are essential to draw the subsidy from the banks for cooking gas, we were told. When almost all have got the cards the government have announced that the s

One country one tax is the prime motto of GST. The central government says that they are removing all other taxes and replacing those with the GST. This statement itself is wrong as excise duty, sales tax, vat, service tax, cess etc are still being continued. One country one tax statement too does not stand good as state and central governments are free to impose cess as and when they like.  Another irregularity is in pickimg items brought under the GST. Petrol, diesel, liquor etc are exempted from the purview of GST as huge taxes are already imposed on those. The government before the introduction of this novel tax form, proclaimed through the media that almost all commodities shall be available at lesser prices in the market. Finally when introduced, scarsely could find any item with a lower price. In fact GST as a whole has raised the prices as far as common man is concerned. The most significant question about GST is, whether this tax reformation is for the Indians as a whole or

Government of Kerala seems to be adamant to exploit the Silent Valley National Park in the name of hydro electric projects. Silent Valley with an area of 236.74 sq km situated in the Nilgiri hills in Palakkad dist of Kerala is one of the richest in the world for it's bio diversities. It is the nature's gift to our great nation. Every human in the God's own country should be proud of it. Silent Valley is an unfathomable stretch of flora and founa comparing with any such regions in the world. There are 730 varieties of identified species dwell in this park. Large varieties of butterflies which are not normally found in other parts of the world are spotted here. There are 16 species of birds which are on the verge of extinction are housed here. There are also large species of mammals which too are under the threat of extinction put up in this God's Valley. This is also the home for large population of endangered species lion tailed macaques. The park is also a home for c

For quite sometime people here and there are saying about huge deposits of Indian money in foreign banks. Most vehement voice about this was heard from the incumbent Prime Minister before his occupation of the chair. After becoming the PM the voice became feeble and feeble. Now there is almost a silence in this money matter. However, it is not the PM alone to keep himself busy in this matter always. There are many others like the Finance Minister, his deputies, a huge fleet of secretaries, the RBI governor, a good number of inquiry agencies and above all there 790 members representing the people of India can spend some time, at least once in a while, to look into this huge deposits. Of course, they all may be looking into it with utmost secrecy. Even though the media is using words like huge, large, enormous etc to indicate the sum, so far no one has said so many rupees and so many paise is the deposit. Of late it came out from some source that the total money deposited in foreign ba

Kerala has vast untapped water resources which can be effectively used as an alternative for road transport. We have about 1500 kilo meters of inland water ways. Almost the entire length of Kerala can be used as high density water channel for the movement of goods and passengers. Optimum utilization of this natural gift can bring down the density of traffic on the roads. Over 4000 human beings are falling dead and over 50,000 are injured on our roads every year. This can be checked at least to some extent. We should make multi pronged efforts to achieve the projected  distance from Kovalam to Bakel (Kasergod). Primarily the missing links must be connected on top most priority. The weeds must be removed and dredging should be arranged to maintain the required depth. However, the most important is to make available large numbers of boats for various purposes. Wide bottom boats which have less chances of accidents must be preferred. We should have 4 seater, 10/12 seater, 30/40 seater and

We Indians are so rich and so liberal. Our servants decide their wages and draw at will. Our representatives in the parliament are considered as our servants. (I do not know whether they agree with this or not.) If things move as usual our MPs shall draw this year a whopping sum of RS 2,80,000/- as monthly emoluments and Rs 4,000/- as daily allowance. We are usually finding the Members of Parliament fight each other and make all possible ugly scenes when they discuss something pertains to the people, but they are amazingly united when they discuss about their salary and perks. As per the existing economic standard of our people, we shall try to place them in any of the following categories, if they fit in. As per available information the monthly income of the various categories of people in 2016 are as below (in RS). EWS                      16,000 and below LIG                         16,001 to 40,000 MIG                        40,001 to 70,000 HIG                         70,00

A cc ording to media reports the public sector banks have written off about 2.5 lakh crores rupees from the year 2012-13 to 2016-17. The defaulters rather beneficiaries of the bank are among the richest in the country. As per available information they include Reliance, Adani, Vedanta,  Essar, Jaypee, JSW, GMR, Lanco, GVK group of companies etc. This huge sum does not belong to any political parties, finance ministers or bank managers but to the common man of India right from the beggars, daily wage earners, petty traders, poor farmers and so on. All these companies must have enough assets in one way or the other. Instead of attaching such assets the banks preferred, may be under the instructions by the top guns from the ruling parties from time to time, to write off this huge sum. In order to recoup the money gifted to the rich of the country, the banks started looting the common man under the names service charges, hiking the lending rates, bringing down the interest for deposit and

A ccor ding to dictionary the meaning of the word 'success' is 'The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.' The aim and purpose have no restrictions; can be anything. However, when we say that someone is a successful person, we wish to add that he is a man of good deeds. While traveling through time, people and places, we can find that the meaning changes and can even contradict. Success of an individual can be the failure of the society. Success of a thief is the failure of the police. History has praised many as successful human. Alexander the Great is called a successful emperor. But, the scale by which Alexander's success was measured yesterday is not the one used today. What was the great emperor's success? He had slaughtered countless number of human beings and destroyed many countries built over centuries. In today's terms he had committed dacoities and murders. During different periods of time Roman emperor Nero, Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden and th