Normal And Abnormal

After the conference of the priests of the Church, the Apostolic Administrator was to be escorted by police to come out. How pathetic the priesthood have fallen in the minds of the ordinary members of the Church and public as a whole. It is not the first time that similar untoward things  happen in the Church. A few weeks earlier, according to a video spread in the society,  in an identical circumstance a good number of people were fighting each other with wooden logs and iron bars in front of the office of the Cardinal.  Subsequently many were reported to have admitted in the hospital with injuries. Another video shows that a priest performing a holy mass was pushed out from the Sanctum Sanctorum and the Holy Books etc were thrown out from there. What went wrong with the Church? The simple answer would be - the excess wealth of the Church. Where wealth is accumulated, power and corruption are likely to be flying around there. Sometime back, as per media reports, Rs 6,000/-

This  is being submitted for all concerned ministries of Government of India. India may introduce a new Telivision Channel accessible to all countries in their respective languages across the world. The channel should be a free service for all. It should be primarily intended for development of tourism in India. The channel should widely cover all tourism centres in India with all relavant details like accessibility, distances from various cities, particulars like availability, fare, timings etc of flights, trains, buses and taxis. Details of hotels available in and around each tourist spot, types of food available etc should included. The channel may also cover long history, culture and civilization of our country. Another section should contain about all that goods and services we want to export. Their quality, prices etc should be indicated. With this we must ensure a multifold increase in export of goods and services. Alongwith this we may try to popularise Ayurvedic me

(Chart showing GDP growth of India. Image courtesy - Trading Economics) A three way approach by the government can make a considerable boost in the Indian economy. This should be initially targetted to bring down the unemployment to a zero level. At first the total number of willing persons may be gathered who are intereseted to take up productive or service industry. The total cost of the project should not exceed rupees five crores. Those who can offer collateral security can raise the project cost appropriately. Those who do not have collateral security should limit the cost within five crores. The security for the bank loan have already been explained earlier. The government may systematically plan the products and services expected from the new ventures. As far as possible export oriented industries should be preferred. People may be planted across the world through Indian Embassies to secure orderes for products and services and for displaying products samples. The sa

(Images courtesy - The Health Site .com,  Dreamstime.com & World Atlas) There are over 1000 types of pesticides used world wide to preserve agricultural produces. When they safeguard the agriculture all over the world by destroying wide varieties of pesticides, over 800 millions or over 40% farmers all over the world are reported to have poisoned by these pesticides. There are 241 pesticides and 41 combinations are used in India.  70% of these are creating health hazards to those who are consuming these vegetable and fruits. There are most comprehensive explanations for the adverse effects of pesticides in Kaseragod district of Kerala. Use of of endosulfan in cashew plantations, tea gardens, paddy fields , fruit orchards in Kaseragod caused widespread distruction in the reagion. According to Health and Family Welfare department of Government of Kerala there were 778 deaths and 6721  people had severe health problems as on 2019. Unfortunately thes

(Images courtesy - Kerala Koumudi and Times of India) As  per the findings of the state vigilance department,  about 45% of the roads have been severely damaged within 6 months from construction. There can be two reasons for this. One may be that we do not follow the recognised scientific methods  for road construction. The other may be that the allotted money in full is not spent on road construction. In both cases the authority concerned must give satisfactory answer to the people. Unfortunately, however important the issue may be, our people with so called political awareness, would never react, until someone with a political flag in hand will lead them. We must take up the issues concern us by our own. At least let us bring it to the notice of the judiciary by some of us together. People are falling dead on the road and the people responsible for the deaths are walking freely unconcerned. We still prefer to call the system 'democracy'. K

A news report appeared in a leading Malayalam daily says that the road accident caused by dangerous pot holes on road is a homicide. It is a serious allegation. If it is a homicide, could it be a culpable homicide too. If the answer is positive, who would be the culprit. When a human life is lost with no cause by the deceased, someone should be responsible for this death. If the so called culprit could be found, such one should certainly be punished. The media and the legal community may sit together and find an answer for this as early as possible, so that recurrence of such homicides can be prevented in the future. The prime point to be detected is the criteria by which the offence is fixed on someone within the existing legal system. K V George 

The  State of Kerala is struggling hard to match the earnings with spending. Things are reported to be getting worsen every passing day. The successive governments ruled the state have made no any appreciable efforts to raise the income of the state. Instead they all depending on sale of alcohol on a very high price, selling dreams to the people in the form of lottery tickets or availing loan from all available sources. They all did the same mistake of not repaying the money they have taken as loan. Instead they passed it on the successive government. Now it has reached to a red hot state that no one can handle it. None seemed to have given due consideration to this money, as it is not theirs but belongs to the people as a whole. Unfortunately the people too  have not come to question the lavish spending of their money. At least now they should wake up and try to find the source of every rupee received in the exchequer and where it is being spent. And also keenly watch the

As per available information there are over 5 lakhs people employed in various government departments in Kerala. Of late media reports continuously about the hardships faced by the government in paying their salary and other benifits in time. While it is the dream of the people to secure employment in the government, political parties reported to have put their best efforts to induct their near and dear for these jobs. Now, the democratically elected government may consider the existing financial situation of the state and restructure the government employment system prevailing in the state in the following manner. 1. Introduce voluntary retirement scheme in the state. Try to bring down the staff by 10%, or more, by VRS. 2. Suspend fresh recruitment for a minimum period of three years. In the case of emergency requirements suitable staff may be got transferred from other departments. 3. Anyone found involved in corruptive practices may be dismissed forthwith. 4. In order to

Adjournment  are enemies of justice delivery system. Judges find it convenient to adjourn cases, says Madras High Court.              - The Hindu dt 15 Dec 2021 70 K pending cases: Supreme Court blames it on adjournments.  -The Economic Times dt 20 Apr 22 Ensure S. 309 Cr P C strict compliance. In murder, abduction and rape cases; don't adjourn cases at drop of hat, MP High Court to trial court's.                                    - Live Law One reason for pendency of cases is adjournments sought by lawyers, Justice MR Shaw.    - Bar and Bench dt 19 Apr 2022 Rule of maximum 3 adjournments not being followed by more than 50% of cases.        - Indian Express dt 8 Jun 2017 Judges to get alerts on repeated adjournments.   - Times of India dt 15 Aug 2021 The above are news reports and comments at random by Indian news media. K V George 

 (1881 Wimbledon Champion William Renshaw) Hers are some strange scores in world sports. Football In the FIFA World Cup 2002 qualifying match in International Sports Stadium, Australia on 11 April 2001 Australia defeated American Samoa 31-0 remains a record. Hockey In a Junior Asia Cup Hockey played in Karachi in 1987 Pakistan scored 55 - 0 against Macau is a record score. Basketball The highest score in a NBA basketball game played on 13 December 1983 by Detroit Pistons against Denver Nuggets 186 - 184 remain in the history of basketball. Volleyball In the Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship in 2004 Chinese Taipei defeated Maldives 25 - 1 remains a record. The second and third sets too were  25 - 4 and 25 - 7. Tennis In 1881 Wimbledon tennis final William Renshaw defeated John Hartley by 6 - 0, 6 - 1, 6 - 1 in 36 minutes may be a record in tennis. Cricket Australia dismissed England in both innings at 53 and 62 at Lords in 1888. K V George 

France , Spain, USA, China, Italy , Turkey, Mexico and Thailand have the highest income from tourism in the world in the recent past. Strangely arise a question in the minds of few Indians at least, what we are lacking in international tourism arena? We have almost every ingredient what a tourist likes to have. We have the highest mountain ranges. We have 10 river systems and over 400 big rivers spread across the country. Many of these rivers have their own birth stories. We have 7,13,789 sq km forest which makes 21.71% of the gegraphical area of the country with wide variety of animals. Of late, we added agro tourism also in the tourist's menu. We have considerable number of 'dream come true farm houses' in many states. Also large area of flower cultivation, tea gardens and spices gardens in selected regions. Alongwith all these  we can add a 500 acre Ayurvedic Complex preferably in Idukki district of Kerala. This should include Ayurvedi

Youth of India is now vulnerable to narcotics, both in using as well as trading. It is spreading fast in schools and colleges. All concerned departments of the Central and State governments must sit together with various sections of the society including educationalists, sociologists, religious leaders etc to find ways and means to ward off this evil from the whole country. We must systematically frame the methods to find the last end of the thread. Once one end of it is in hand, the other end is certainly reachable, howsoever it may be delayed. We have such intelligent people available in all departments. One of the most important thing to take care is that if any political party is involved in this distructive method of money making such parties should be straight away banned for ever. Similarly any government officials are found to have involvement in this trade should be dismissed forthwith. All those connected with flight cargo, passenger flights and all those in and a

  World  road quality index 2019 shows that Singapore, Switzerland and Netherlands rank 1,2 & 3 with score 6.5, 6.4 & 6.3 respectively. India ranks 46 as per this index with a score of 4.6. According to NCRB there were 4.03 lakhs road accidents in India in 2021 killing 1.55 lakhs and injuring 3.71 lakhs people. Road conditions also must be a contributing factor in these road accidents. Neither the government nor the media nor any social organisations show much attention to these human loss. None has come forward suggesting ways and means to bring down these numbers drastically. As per the available information, annual maintenance cost of existing roads in India is Rs 1,50,000 per km. Budget allocation for roads and highways in India for FY 2017-2023 was 1.21 trillion rupees. Unfortunately, whatever the amount allotted by the Central and State governments are said to be not fully utilised for the purpose it meant for as huge amount of corruptive practices are involve

In the health sector, India being the largest populated country in the world, has 1.7 nurses per 1,000 population and 1.0 doctor per 1,404 population. According to WHO norm there should be 3 nurses per 1,000 population and 1.0 doctor per 1,100 population. As per the report of Ministry of External Affairs 32 million NRIs and OCIs are now living abroad. About 2.5 million people are leaving the country every year. These make Indian citizens the highest numbers settled abroad. Annual remittance from them in 2020-21 was $87 billion which contributes 2.75% of the GDP.  While the successive governments might be looking it as a positive sign, if get into it deeply we may find that it may not be so positive. We may see an example for this. Let us imagine about a big family of large members having plenty of fertile land. The head of the family send many members to the rich houses around to work on daily wages. From what they earn, the head of the house, wives and children of the work

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

According to   Bhagawat Gita chapter 16 verse 21 Sree Krishna says about three gateways to hell. Those are lust, greed and anger. Bhagawat Gita, therefore, confirms the existence of hell. There are 70 references about hell in the New Testament.  In Mathew 16:17 the punishment is said about according to the deeds of one..  "For the Son of Man will arrive in the glory of his Father, with his angels. And then he will repay each one regarding his works." While almost all religions teach the existence of hell, no man on earth, ever lived could ratify the existence of hell by his own experience. When we all believe that God Himself is the supreme love and compassion we may hesitate to believe an everlasting punishment for man for his doings on earth. Instead of a fire filled hell in another world after death, if we can think about a hell in this world which is much harder than fire, the conception of hell may become acceptable. This is because of the fundamental princip

Karl Marx  and Frederick Engels introduced Communist Manifesto to the world in 1848. The prime intention behind this was to replace the destructive capitalism by socialism and then to communism. This theory, however could not get worldwide acceptance. Until now countries which have agreed with communism and tried are: the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Combodia, Mongolia and Yemen in Asia. Soviet controlled eastern bloc countries like, Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia , Poland and Romania. The Balkan countries like Albania, Bosnia, Slovania, Macedonia, Croatia and three more. African countries like Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia and four more. Aabout 175 years after the presentation of the manifesto, only China, Cuba, North Korea,. Vietnam and Laos are said to be left with communist ruling. China has already left communism and wedded to capitalism. Stock market is well established in China. Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange are the p