Normal And Abnormal

Allegation  of corruption charges seems to have accepted as a fashion among politicians in India. The money involved does not have any consideration. Any amount of corruption charges levelled can be got erased and obtained a clean chit without getting into any court of law, by making a quick twist, as demonstrated and proved in the on going melodrama of Maharashtra politics.  What is taking place in politics is no more a public affair but confined within a handful of  players just on the playground. Even the media is peeping through the key holes without finding anything. If at all something could be seen here and there, would also not come out to the open for they too are afraid of the demons. The so called legislative members were temporarily put to rest in five star hotels. It is a frequent affair now in other states too. They do not know what is happening in the parties they belong. Who is the friend and who is the foe is conveyed to them by the bosses intermittently. Another surpr

The  Chief Minister of Kerala is now traveling through Japan and South Korea along with a team of ministers and officials to explore avenues to tap resources for the development of the state. While the tour is appreciated for many reasons, it comes to the mind that the CM being an eminent Communist, could have visited North Korea too. This would have helped to have a direct view of the development a communist country achieved in quite a long span of time. In an earlier occasion too the CM preferred to visit US for health related matters. For years, as a communist ideologist and stalwart, the honorable CM used all negative terms about  US for it is a capitalist nation. In such instances, at least in principle, a communist country could have opted. Unfortunately there is no communist country in the world that have attained optimum development to render the required service to their own people. At last, China could achieve the growth it wanted  only after deviating from communism. China c

Here   we take a layman's view of the universe. There may be nothing new for the contemporary science in this. Whether the universe had a finite or infinite past could not have arrived at by the medieval philosophers. The English theologian Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253) was the one who brought a theory of the birth of the universe. He described the origin from an explosion and the crystallisation of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around earth. Johannes Kepler in 1610 used the dark night sky to argue for a finite universe. Later Isaac Newton described large scale motion throughout the universe. The universe that expanded and contracted principle was first put forward in 1791 by Erasmus Darwin. This cyclic system was further confirmed by Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. Vesto Slipher in the 1910s determined that spiral nebulae or spiral galaxies were receding from earth. During the same decade Albert Einstein described the universe (i.e. the space-time metric) b

സാക്ഷരതയിൽ രാജ്യത്തെ ഉന്നത സ്ഥാനം. വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ നിലവാരത്തിലും ഔന്നത്യം പുലർത്തുന്ന സംസ്ഥാനം. എന്നാൽ,  ഇവിടുത്തെ സ്കൂളുകളിലെ ക്ലാസ്സ്‌ മുറികളിൽ കുട്ടികളോടൊപ്പം വിഷപ്പാമ്പുകളും വസിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്നു പറഞ്ഞാൽ തികച്ചും അവിശ്വാസനീയം തന്നെ.ക്ലാസ്സ്മുറിയിലെ പൊത്തിൽ നിന്നും വന്ന പാമ്പു കടിയേറ്റു ഷെഹ്‌ല ഷെറിൻ എന്ന പത്തു വയസ്സ് കാരി  മരിക്കുന്നു. കുട്ടിയെ ഉടനെ ആശുപത്രിയിൽ എത്തിച്ചില്ലെന്നും ആശുപത്രിയിൽ നിന്നും ആവശ്യമായ ചികിത്സ ലഭിച്ചില്ലെന്നും പരാതി നില നിൽക്കുന്നു.  ഈ  സംഭവത്തിൽ ഉത്തരവാദികളായവർ ഒട്ടേറെപ്പേരുള്ളതിനാൽ ദീർഘമായ അന്വേഷണം ആവശ്യമാണ്. PTA, Teachers, Principal, DEO and assistant officers, CEO, DPI, Secretary, Minister എന്നിവരാണ് സംസ്ഥാനത്തു വിവിധ തലങ്ങളിൽ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ  ഭരണം നടത്താൻ ഉത്തരവാദപ്പെട്ടവർ. ഇവരെല്ലാം തന്നെ നേരിട്ടും അല്ലാതെയും ഈ സംഭവത്തിൽ ഉത്തരവാദികൾ തന്നെയാണ്. ഇതിനു മുമ്പ് മറ്റൊരു സ്കൂളിൽ വിഷപ്പാമ്പിന്റെ ശല്യം ഉണ്ടായപ്പോൾ സംസ്ഥാന ബാലാവകാശ കമ്മീഷൻ നേരിട്ട് ഇടപെട്ടു ഇത്തരം സംഭവങ്ങൾ അവർത്തിക്കരുതെന്ന് ഉറപ്പു വരുത്തണമെന്ന് സർക്കാർ ഉൾപ്പെടെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട എല്ലാവരോടും ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടതാണ്.  ഈ

An average of five suicide deaths are reported from eight IITs of India every year. 52 deaths are reported during the past ten years from eight IITs all over India. According to media reports, four suicides have already taken place in Chennai IIT alone this year. The last case reported is that of a brilliant student from Kerala. As the father of the deceased could bring up the matter to the public attention, it has been echoed here and there including the Indian parliament. When such huge number of suicides are reported from one of the premier educational institutions of India, it is a matter of deep regret to say that neither any of the state governments concerned nor the central government came up to probe the matter effectively and find the exact cause of the deaths. At the initial stage itself the department of education, government of India should have enquired the cases and took stern measures to prevent the recurrence. The don't care attitude of a large number of officials b

കേരളത്തിലെ ക്രൈസ്തവ പാരമ്പര്യം ലോകത്തിനു മാതൃകയാണെന്നും അതൊരു വിദേശ ശക്തിക്കും അടിയറ വയ്ക്കരുതെന്നും,  - ഓർത്തഡോൿസ്‌ സഭ പരമാദ്ധ്യക്ഷൻ പരിശുദ്ധ ബസേലിയോസ് മാർത്തോമാ പൗലോസ് ദ്വിതീയെൻ കാതോലിക്ക ബാവ (പത്ര വാർത്ത - 18.11.2019) ഇരു സഭകൾ തമ്മിലുള്ള തർക്കത്തിലെ പ്രധാന ഘടകങ്ങളിലൊന്നാണ് 'വിദേശ ശക്തി '. മനുഷ്യരെ മനുഷ്യരായി കണ്ടു സ്നേഹിക്കാനും ക്ഷമിക്കാനും പഠിപ്പിച്ച ക്രിസ്തുവിന്റെ പിൻഗാമികൾ  തങ്ങളെ കോട്ടയംകാരായും,  കേരളീയരായും,  ഇന്ത്യക്കാരായും,  വിദേശികളായും വിഭജിക്കുന്നതു ഉചിതമാണോ? സാക്ഷാൽ യേശു ക്രിസ്തു മലയാളിയോ ഇന്ത്യാക്കാരനോ അല്ല. മേരിയും ജോസഫ് ഉം ഇന്ത്യാക്കാരല്ല. ക്രിസ്തു വിന്റെ ശിക്ഷ്യൻമാർ ആരും തന്നെ നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടുകാരല്ല. "ഈ തൊഴുത്തിൽ പെടാത്ത മറ്റാടുകളും എനിക്കുണ്ട്. അവയേയും ഞാൻ കൊണ്ടു വരേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. അവ എന്റെ സ്വരം ശ്രവിക്കും.  അങ്ങനെ ഒരാട്ടിൻ പറ്റവും ഒരിടയനുമാകും." (ജോൺ 10:16) ഇതു അരുളിചെയ്ത ക്രിസ്തു നാഥനെ നമ്മൾ മനസിലാക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നുണ്ടോ?  അതോ,  അതു അന്നേരം കാണാം എന്നാണോ?  ഇനിയും, നമ്മൾ നടത്തുന്ന ഈ വിശ്വാസ പ്രഖ്യാപനത്തിനു എന്തെങ്കിലും അർത്ഥമുണ്ടോ? "നിങ്ങൾക്ക

While going through the media reports or watching the political discussion on a particular subject one get the feeling that our law can be interpreted to choices. This is further underlined when different opinions are expressed by different members of jury appointed on a particular matter. Similarly, there is a firm belief that if a case is pleaded by a lawyer of repute the outcome will be different than by a lawyer of not so repute. Such instances show that our law can be interpreted to choices. If it is so, can we do something to make our law uninterpretable, should be thought by experts of the law. KV George kvgeorgein@gmail.com

The effective literacy rate as per the working definition of literacy in the Indian census since 1991 is - the total percentage of the population of an area at a particular time aged seven years or above who can read and write with understanding. In order to stand among the advanced countries of the world let us admit this. Unless we maintain a time frame for this, even after hundred years, this will remain as our literacy standard. If we have a positive, realistic and optimistic outlook in this matter we must change the primary definition every 3/4 years. For instance, if the basic literacy standard today is that of LKG after a given period of time it should become UKG and then class I, II, III and so on and later, say after a few decades it should reach the degree standard. Until we raise the level continuously we cannot be called literates and stand among the people of other countries. The politicians, the senior government officials and the media should concentrate on this matter

Being  a common man it creeps into my mind for quite sometime that why should we have a national sports channel with nothing new to watch. There are many sports channels vying each other to telecast live national and international sports events. In between these mega circus our national sports channel, DD Sports, screens years old sports events from here and there repeatedly. In fact it looks like a learning App. Having such number of channels under different classifications DD tops in the country and, therefore, have a large platform to perform. DD is reported to have a net revenue of ₹ 884.4 crores during 2017-18. According to available information Doordarshan operates 46 studios and have a total number of 49 channels. While comparing the financial results of the major channel groups, even the regional TVs are bagging a much higher turn over than the government owned DD. It is high time that we must rejuvenate DD both in the quality of programmes and, thereby, financial earnings. DD

According  to media reports 3.21 lakks farmers commited suicide during the period from 1995 to 2015 in India. 22,807 of them belong to the state of Kerala where the number of people engaged in agriculture is comparatively low from other states. If we get deep into the matter we can find that these cannot be called as suicide. They were just killed. In order to understand these are killings we must find those factors that led to their deaths. These farmers were neither engaged in a contract nor were deployed for a given return. They were just engaged in feeding the whole Indians, using there own available resources like land, fertilizer, seeds, implements, water, electricity etc. It is not at all a business of high returns. They cannot determine the the price and the market of their products. They were also unable to store their products for long anticipating a better price. Every time they were constrained to sell out their products at a predetermined price whereas most other goods wer

Despite  many political adversities Kerala could stand upright in the field of education. Though we do not have any educational institutions of international standard we could find a place in the top layer of our country. Of late things have changed drastically. We have been giving priority to politics than education. We give preference to destruction than construction. We continue to fail to ensure a bright future for the coming generation. Unless we provide them adequate knowledge to compete in the international arena we are certainly moving away from our responsibility. Grace mark by political gurus,  university degree without attending college, employment without proper qualifications etc have already made enough dent on our standard of education. If we are now looking for a politically motivated educational pattern we are going to stand nowhere in our customary competitive level. In the ongoing Koodathai serial murder case enquiry the police could find that the accused Jolly has n