Normal And Abnormal

Our  political leaders when have a large gathering to listen, say, economic development of India is something easily achievable one. We may overtake China in another few years! We will be among the advanced countries of the world! Awnd very soon by political parties we may listen that we are going to be the richest in the world! Speakers continue with their tall speeches and the listeners continue to clap their hand. Our one-way traffic media reports make these great speeches reach as much people as possible. But what is hidden from probably most of the people are: 1) considerable amount of about 1.5 billion population still live below poverty line or close to the line above, 2) a large amount of our population are between illiterates and below matriculation, 3) ours is one of the most unsafe country for women in the world, 4) countless number of people are begging in streets across the country, 5) unknown number of children are unable to attend the school and the list ...

According to the dictionary the meaning of vote is: A   formal indication of choice between two or more candidates expressed typically through ballots or show of hands. This meaning in the dictionary has been redefined by our politicians as well as by we ourselves, the voters. Now it has been treated like a commodity by many. Now vote is like a: Commodity for sale! A surprise gift! In the form of pick pocket! A forceful snatch! A gang burglary! And it goes on and on.  Tomorrow what will happen to it, no one knows. It has already become a burden to many. The great work of the renowned noble humen like Cliesthenes of Athens of the 6th century BC, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Gaulle of France, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar and such great ones who have built democracy in the world is gradually getting collapsed. K V George 

For  quite sometime our mode of protest remains the same. We the people as a whole of some regions confront with some serious problems and then look at each other's faces and remain there murmering something. Some fellow suddenly arrive at the scene. He places himself at some tall spot and start delivering a speech by accusing some departments and officials. By the time some of his chelas reach  with some flags. The neta  then form a procession and leads the affected people to some offices and shout big slogans. At the office the  neta gives some threatening speech. It continues for a day or two. The people are normally led to stop vehicular traffic, forcefully down the shutters of all shops of the area. And it continues for two or three days. Police arrives the place and arrest some people. Finally some officials sit and talk with the people. And they say they will look into it. Let us find an end to this comedy game. When you have an individual or socia...

India is said to be the largest democracy in the world. The word 'largest' stands in terms of population. There are 167 countries that follow the path of democracy. India ranks 108th on Electoral Democracy Index 2023. In fact democracy in India is strictly confined to voting in elections at various levels. Earlier it was manual casting of votes and now it is by using electronic voting machines. The following countries only use EVM for national elections. Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, DR of Congo, Estonia, India, Philippines, UAE and Venezuela. USA use manual casting of votes they use some electronic scan tabulator system for counting of votes. However, despite all so called convenience, as per available information, countries like UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand etc are not using EVMs for national elections. These countries may have their own reasons for rejecting Electronic Voting. EVM was first used in India in the By-elect...

We  are about 795 crores people living in this world today. All that we are enjoying today are the outcome of the hardwork of countless number of people. Even every grain of rice coming to our plates are the result of many thousands of people. When we get sick we take medicine and get healed. There may be efforts of generations behind every tablet or every drop of medicine that comfort us. Each one of us are highly indebted to many people lived here or living here. Are we thankful to those humans? Do we ever think about them? Now, coming back to us. We are in this world, may be, for a few decades. If we look at our story, have we got anything in our mind that is worth to mention that we have done for our fellow beings. When we pass away from here, how many around us and how long will remember us. Have we ever fed a hungry stranger with enough food? Have we ever sent sufficient food to a poor family of your area? Have we ever asked a tired poor one whether he is hungry? ...

The bloodiest period of history of the world belongs to the Communists. The highest number of killings made by a single ruler in the history of the world stands in the name of Mao Zedong in China. During the period of 1958-62 Mao killed 45 million people. Estimated total killing in different countries are given below. China - 76,702,000 (1949-87) Soviet Union - 61,911,000 (1917-87) Kampuchea - 2,035,000 (1975-79) Vietnam - 1,670,000 (1945-87) Poland - 1,585,000 (1945-87) N.Korea - 1,563,000 (1948-87) Yugoslavia - 1,072,000 (1945-87) (Such killings may be found in all Communist ruled countries of the world) The Left Front government ruled for seven consecutive terms in West Bengal from 1977 to 2011 by Communist Chief Ministers  Jyoti Basu (five terms) and Buddhadev Bhattacharya (two terms) According to a report by the Mainstream Weekly dated August 14, 2010 after analysis Communist killings in the state during the period of 1977-96 the monthly average was 125.7 murders. ...

The most precious for you in the world now is the air in your lungs. If it leaves, you are no more. And that belonged to someone else little earlier and again it will move into someone else soon. Every possession of ours is like this.                ++++++ The physical body we have is our identity. In the absence of this we remain as a memory. This body may be very strong or very beautiful. Others may like to remain close to it. Before forming in this body it came from the soil of the earth some particles of it might have come from home waste, animal or human bodies, dirty water, beautiful flowers and so on. After sometime it will become something like those.                   ++++++     When we meet people it can be our first meeting in our lives. We can offer them a memorable smile. And when we meet someone it can be our last meeting. Let us give them enough love.     ...

(People sleeping on roadside during extreme winter nights in New Delhi. Image courtesy, Times of India) Time and again we Indians hear loud proclamations by our rulers about our achievements. Of course, the people are proud of it too. It is high time that we should see whether these achievements are reaching uniformly to all Indians. For instance if we take our pci/ppp it may look to be presentable to the world, though remains at low ranking. But things get worse if we remove the earnings of just thousand richest ones from the whole 1.5 billion population. Our street beggers, patients heaped in the hospital verandas, those sleeping in the way side during extreme winter etc tell us a much different story. While the haves are moving at a pace of 1,2,4,8,16,32 rates the have nots are stagnated at 1,1.5,1,1.5,1,1.5 rates. Should we not look at the lower strata of the society too? However, fortunately for some and unfortunately for many we Indians are well prepared to suffer any...

"We must have life-building, man-making, charector- making assimilation of ideas. If you have accumulated five ideas and made them your life and charector, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library ... " Swami Vivekananda. My dear parents, the fellow Indians, whose children are going to schools and colleges in India, must spare a few minutes to go through this brief write up. Political parties have deeply penetrated into our educational system for quite sometime. They have used different avenues like religion, money, power politics etc for this. Politics have changed the system of education in schools and colleges quite rapidly. Education through prescribed syllabus have given way to political ideologies. Impatience, indiscipline, indecency, fight between students, stabbing of  teachers, killing of other students etc are now practiced in good number of colleges in different parts of our country. The parents must think the purpose of...

Many  years ago, James Rogers of Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church told the story of Annie Clayton of San Jose, California. As a child, she and her sister Banie took a long walk one Saturday morning to collect some scraps of wood as fuel for heating their families home. As they returned, Vanie collapsed from the lingering effects of cholera and was unable to proceed. Annie, who was only five years old, was helpless and they sat beside the road not knowing what to do. Finally Vanie said, "You know, Annie, that a good while ago mother told us that if we ever got into trouble, we should pray, and God would help us. Now you help me get down upon my knees, and hold me up, and we will pray." So there on the side walk, the two sisters prayed earnestly for someone to come along to help them. Then they resumed sitting on the curb waiting to see how God would answer their prayers. Far down the street, they spotted a man who walked out of a factory and loo...

No  government in Kerala ever undergone such paucity of fund as of now. It must be the result of financial mismanagement. If we look at the available information from AG, the state finance wing as well as the Central Finance Minister it could be gathered that the State Government has not made adequate effort to collect the dues from the concerned. Simultaneously the state has made no effort to get the alloted fund from the Central Government and to enhance the revenue from new sources. Above all corruption is reported to be rampant in the state of Kerala. Over and above the continuous reports by media about large amount of corruption by people occupying significant position in the state, individuals are coming out with proof of corruption by these persons. All said and done no any corrective measures or punitive action is reported to have been taken so far. Finally Sri Shiva Shankar an IAS officer and the former Private Secretary of the CM have been taken into custody f...