Normal And Abnormal

Sometimes back someone said about Kerala - God's own country. We Malayalees just repeat it. Even our own country men from other states do not know much about it. Domestic tourist arrival in Kerala during 2018 was 1.6 cr. During the same period domestic tourists visited Tamil Nadu was 49.5 cr and UP 53.6 cr. We may have umpteen reasons to justify the low inflow. The highest earning countries from tourism in 2019 are: USA -$193.3 billion(Rs14.4 lakh cr) Spain - $79.7 bn (Rs 5.9 lakh cr) France - $63.5 bn (Rs 4.8 lakh cr) Kerala - Rs 45,010.69 cr Significant difference in the above figures reveals our failure in marketing our tourism potential to the world. When we are placed in the must visit tourist destination in  the world (8th in the list), we could not make it known to the world. We ourselves should have a relook to our tourism sector. We have almost every ingredient a tourist want to see. We have good numbe...

Having lived in Changanacherry for a good amount of time, especially in my younger days, I have very sweet memories about my good old town, shops, market and every inch of the roads. Now we may go through some old images of Changanacherry. Market Junction Market road shops Boat jetty Anchu vilakku Five lamps Installed in the market in 1905. This is the place in the market where Veluthampy Dalava opened the largest market of Kerala in 1805. Vazhappally Maha Siva Temple, Anchu vilakku Vandippetta, SB College, Metropolitan Church, NSS Headquarters main gate & Boat jetty Courtesy: Web sources K V George

Kerala is on a Red Alert! The situation is getting worsen every passing day. According to Kerala Police Crime Records, 5586 narcotics cases in 2021 and 8124 cases 2022 have been registered under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985. These must be about a gram in a Ton only. The real inflow of narcotics may be much larger than what is estimated. The number of users are getting increased day by day. Young school children are being converted into regular narcotics users. The parents of the children should be aware of this dangerous situation and become more cautious. The police and excise departments should be more vigilant. The parents of the children, the teachers and management of the schools should be more watchful to deal with the situation, or else these children may be lost for ever.  The states reporting highest charge-sheet crimes under IPC crimes in India in 2022 are: 1) Gujarat - 97.1%, 2) Kerala - 94.9%.  This is the criminal growth of Kera...

    The young billionaires - Stancy        Tang, Austin Russel and Andy          Fang There  are people who put all out efforts to earn wealth right through their lives but most of them fail to reach the goal and go behind the curtain. But there are some very fortunate people who become billionaires at very young age. We will now see some of those lucky rich. Kevin David Lehmann  Kevin David Lehmann is the youngest billionaire in the world. He is 18 years old and his net worth is $3.3 billion. The prime source of his income is Drugstore. According to the report by Forbes 50% stake of Germany's leading drugstore chain drogerie markt (dm) which brings in over $12 billion annual revenue is his prime earning source. Lehmann's father transferred ownership of his 50% stake in dm to Kevin David in 2017. Austin Russel Austin Russel founded automotive sensor firm Luminar Technologies. He became the youngest billionaire ...

The High Court of Kerala has recently made an observation, "Boys must know that they should not touch a girl/woman without her explicit consent." What forced the honourable judiciary to make this comment is nothing but the result of the utter failure of our educational system. We must have set a school curriculum that should have the prime target to instill virtues and values in students. Today's students will be tomorrow's citizens. They are the ones to steer the nation to a destination of peace, harmony, discipline, respect to each other and to the extreme comfort of all the people. On the other hand we have allowed stinking politics to rule out the age old civilization our great nation. Until and unless we throw away this politics into waste bins this country cannot come up the way it is capable of. K V George 

Every mismanagement made by the governments or certain individual members of the government are straight falling on the heads of the common man. Still  those commit the errors are free to continue with it. The burden keep falling on the people. Even though the people are not able to carry it they are forced to carry it. As per available information there are about three million elected members in our country for various establishments and institutions. This is much above the population of many countries in the world. The 1.5 billion are bound to share the weight of all those people. If we go through the debates of these institutions right upto the parliament and many courts in India we can estimate illegal and unauthorised burden they all put on the people. How long we may continue with this so called democracy? Can we extensively search our constitution and find a way to the present democratic system into presidential democratic system. In that way atleast ...

 (Image courtesy, Telegraph India) Right from childhood we Indians have been confronting with corruption everywhere in public life. Almost any service related with government, one is to deal with at  one way or the other corruption in some form. Corruption in our country is nurtured by our own political parties. While the common man is falling down to poverty day in and day out many political leaders are found accumulating wealth in different forms. As far as corruption is concerned, there is no difference, it seems, between parties. If political parties are against corruption, here is a challenge for each one of them. In the coming assembly election, let them present an election manifesto for the people. It should say: "If we are elected to power, we shall eliminate corruption from this country. Any government employee, elected members or political functionary if found involved in any monetory corruption, nepotism or any other form of corruption shall be removed f...

As of now there are 53 tiger reserves in India with a total tiger population of 2967 nos. (Another information shows it is 3010 nos) This is about 80% of the total tiger population in the world. Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is the biggest in Kerala with area of 777 sq.km. Silent Valley Wildlife Sanctuary (Nilgiri Biosphere) has an area of 89.52 sq.km. These two are the prime Tiger Reserves of Kerala. Altogether there is reported to be a population of 190 tigers in Kerala. According to National Tiger Conservation Authority's findings, from estimations conducted in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 the annual growth rate of tiger is 6%. Tiger is a carnivorous animal. When it find scarcity of its natural food sources it looks for new arena and thus it lands in human inhabited regions. When these animals started attacking humans in these area the authority concerned has come up with a funny resolve for this; to impose birth control of tigers. Immediately taken a follow up too to appr...

                              കവിത                കെ വി ജോർജ്  ഞാനറിഞ്ഞതെല്ലാം                                     മിഥ്യയല്ലേ ഞാനെന്നതല്ലേ സത്യ                              മുള്ളൂ നീയെന്നതുമൊരു മിഥ്യ                                 തന്നെ നീയെന്നതാണ്  ഞാനെന്ന                                    സത്യം. ചുറ്റുമുള്ളതെല്ലാം മായ                               യെങ്കിൽ ചുറ്റേണ്ടതുഞാനെന്നിലല്ലേ ഞാനെന്നെയറിഞ്ഞിരു         ...

We may find villages of some European countries. France England Belgium Denmark Switzerland Germany Netherlands Sweden Hungary Norway Italy Poland Finland Below given are images of Villages in Kerala, India (Image courtesy to web pages) K V George

     (Image courtesy, Byjus) In confirmation with a conviction being established in India now, every protected forest, national park and wild life sanctuary across the country should have a mandatory eco sensitive zone of a minimum one kilometre starting from their demarcated boundaries. Buffer zones provide critical habitat adjacent to streams and wet lands, as well as assist in controlling erosion, especially on unstable steep slopes. Buffers along streams and other water bodies also provide wildlife corridors, a protected area where wildlife can move from one place to another. Buffer zone is not an age old scientific concept with absolute theoretical principles.The concept of buffer zone was first included in the Operational Guidelines for the implementation of the World Heritage Conversation in 1977. Nowadays as integrated functional part of nature reserve, a buffer zone has both functions of ecological buffer and social buffer. While these could be the ba...

It  was believed that religion is the path towards heaven. Since some time it is found that today's religion is a path towards hell. In world crime ratings, Venezuela with 84 crimes per lakh and Papua new Guinea with 81 are the top countries in the world. Of these two Papua New Guinea has 96% and Venezuela has 88% Christian population. Other top ranking countries in crime rate are Afghanistan with a Muslim population of 99.8% and Syria with over 90% Muslim population. India with a crime rate of 45 rank 79 th in the world. The Hindu population of India is estimated to be 79%. Along side Nepal with over 80% population of Hindu ranks 99th in the world crime rating. Now let us come back to our home state Kerala. According to a report by the Times of India dated 16 Sept 2021, quoting a report of National Crime Record Bureau of 2020, shows that Kerala has a highest charge sheeting rate of 92.5% for violent crimes in the country. In the Woman, Peace and Security Index 2021 Ind...

We are always influenced by the circumference, the situation and the environment. Intelligence is a tool we apply under these favourable circumstances. Luck is nothing but an imaginary concept. Luck in real terms is, the right effort at the right time at the place. Nothing beyond that. Enviornment or situation is not our creation.  It is provided to us at the appropriate time. Many could not avail those opportunities; not even identify it. Only a few could avail every opportunity that comes to their way. We call them successful ones. A few call them lucky ones.  Oppertunity is something like food found suddenly when become hungry. These food can be in different forms for different people. Some may be ready to eat ones. And some may be raw food. Both will however fully get rid off hunger. There may not be anyone pass away from this world without being provided any opportunities. However, many pass away without availing any of those. How we identify these may be a de...

Movement of organised labour was started in the 19th century in Great Britain. Trade Unions in India were believed to have existed in 600 BC and before. India did large trading of spices, metals, textiles etc with other parts of the world. Patliputra, Ujjain, Nalanda, Pujar, Mathura etc were the prime trading centres at that time. Those Trade Unions must have meant for the trades. However the modern Trade Unions for the collective bargaining came into being in the British India in 1850 in Textile Mills of Bombay and in Calcutta in 1854. The wages of the industrial workers were uneven and far below the daily needs. These situations prompted the need for collective bargaining. Since independence Trade Unions have flourished in India. Trade Unions have become the bargaining tools of political parties of our country. In today's India workers have enough statutory establishments for the redressal of their grievance; no need for collective bargaining or application of force o...

           (G R Viswanath) It  may sound strange but it must be the truth that the present Indian cricket team is not competent enough to win the world cricket title. The reasons are many. We have a good number of good batsmen. Many are good hitters too, but none are stable. No one can confidently take up a set task. Our bowling sector is also more or less similar. Either in picking wickets or in checking runs we don't have any reliable bowlers. However, most of our bowlers have some shining spells here and there. None is confident enough to make a winning performance in world level matches. We also have extreme scarcity for genuine allrounders too. While we were constrained to pick a team from a scant list a few decades ago, now we have a choice over hundred play to pick from. And that lavishness made the team management to make constant trial and error methods. That must be the outcome of today. Let us now select a team for a long period ...

Holland  has large flower farms. Tulip Gardens are more in numbers but daffodils and hyacinth are also widely cultivated. Noordoostpolds in the province of Flevoland and the Hague and Leiden upto Alkmaar of Holland become vast sea of gorgeous colour flowers from mid March to mid May. Large number of tourists visit the country to see the unbelievable colour carpets spread by man with nature. You may have a look of these farms. K V George