Normal And Abnormal

A Chinese Power House using combustible waste. With  66.1% recycling, Germany is the best recycling country in the world. Austria is close by with Germany in waste management. These two countries are followed by Taiwan, Sweden and South Korea in the list of best waste managers in the world. In 2003 Kamikatsu municipality of Japan made history by producing zero waste. While these are the names of the toppers, annoyingly, our country is among bottom 12 of the list in best waste managers in the world. The amount of municipal solid waste generated in India in 2021 was 1,60,000 metric tons. Considerable amount these waste are combustible and can be used for electricity generation. For instance, China is producing 2.7 million tonnes of waste per year. They generate 2.7 billion kilowatt hours.of electricity every year. Waste from paper, plastic, glass, wood, metal, electronics, battery, cloth and such many items are recycled and brought into new products.  If we Indians use our wa

A lease indenture signed between the Maharaja of Travencore and the secretary of state for India in 1886 with a validity for 999 years, is what caused the  current tussle between Kerala and Tamil Nadu for irrigation  water from Mullaperiyar dam. 999 years is something over 30 human generations. Under any law anywhere in the world, can anyone ask anyone after ten, twenty or thirty generations what to give to whom and from where and how much? Did the signatories know that no such concrete dam in the world will survive for such long time of 999 years. From what is seen in this world a concrete dam cannot survive over 100 plus years. More amuzing and confusing is that why no one has brought this to the notice of the honorable judiciary. More than these the geographical and population combination have distinctively changed since the signing of this 'comedy of errors'. K V George

There are over 40,000 Chinese restaurants in USA whereas the McDonald's outlets are about 36,000 only. We can find Chinese restaurants across the world. These tood are so diverse. The fried rice, noodles and various chicken preparations are very tasty and people belonging to different food habits too like these tastes. As per available data from India, among Indians who frequently eat outside, 30.7% eat Chinese food every month, 23.8% twice in a month and 25.9% four times in a month. We have good number of Chinese restaurants in all major cities and in many towns in almost all states.  Though it has not gained popularity as Chinese cuisine, Kerala food is loved by people from other states of India. Some tourists visiting Kerala from different parts of the world are seen to be familiar with our food like Idly-Sambar, Avial, Appam-stew, Put, Biriyani, Payasam etc. Why not we think about presenting our food varieties more and more all ov

We  Indians are like a large family with plenty of land with enough water and favorable climatic conditions. But, instead of working in the field, produce and sell in the market we run behind the elder ones, listening their economic theories, political history and the divine discourse. We are so humble, liberal and such open minded that we build houses for god's even though we don't have houses. We feed the gods and pujaris though we have nothing to eat. We have no hesitation to follow the economic theories which are found flopped the world over where these were experimented. We have also made trial runs in a few states and found total collapse. We prefer to stop things than running them continuously. Instead of keeping the shutters open for more time we do our best to close those as much as possible. We are taught to shut than open. We prefer to see empty roads than the hustled and active ones. We are taught to remain idle and talk more than to keep working and tal

There  are many instances of allegations of corruption against government officials, ministers, political functionaries etc in Kerala through news media time and again. In response to this the people as a whole do not react considering that their hard earned money is being swindled by antisocial elements. 'Don't mind, let them have it', seems to be the general attitude of the people. The general earnings of the state through government for 2023-24 is: Public debt - 36.9% of GSDP Budget balance -(-Rs 39,662 Cr) Revenue - Rs 1.36 lakhs Crs Expense - Rs 2.76 lakhs Crs Then comes agriculture. Nearly half of the population is engaged in some sort of agricultural activities. Marine products trading and exports is another significant field of earing. About 65% of the income of the state comes from different sectors like IT, real estate, tourism, insurance, banking, transportation etc Over and above these about 1.5 lakhs crores rupees are brought in to the state every y

India's population as on 2021 was 1.39 billion. Leaving 2.9 million atheists the remaining are part of some religions. The prime religions in India are: Hinduism (79.8%), Islam (14.23%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.72%) and others like Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrians (Parsis) etc which together have a share of less than 1% of the total population. Further to this there are some more religions which put together less than ten million members. While Hinduism is mainly divided into four castes, there are around 3,000 sub castes and a further divisions of over 25,000 denominations. Though Islamic religion has basically four schools, these are further divided into a good number of communities. Christianity is broadly divided into three groups, altogether they have over 41,000 denominations. Even though many religions are found in India and bulk of the population belong to part of some religions, we prefer to call ourselves a secular nation. Whether it is education, emplo

Many Indian male see female as a strange life form from other planets. These female 'structures' are 'free for all' they think. We must find an end to this either through education or through compulsion by law. Let us, therefore, opt for education first. The prime motive of sex education in schools, that is from class 4 to 12, should be safety of female of all ages. The lessons should not be merely confined to human anatomy. Sex should be seen as a nature's tool to maintain the existence and upkeep of life forms on earth. Some of our educated newly wed young husband's approach doctors for clarification of sex related matters. Many of our youngsters acquire whole knowledge on sex from cinemas and novels. Children from young age should be provided adequate sex knowledge scientifically. The whole country should have a common sex syllabus from lower classes upto class 12. An expert committee can be formed for this consisting of Educationalists, Medical s

Emily Grace was three years old. One night she had severe trouble for breathing. The mother of the little girl took her to the ER doctor suspecting pneumonia. The doctor found something abnormal and she was kept in the emergency room. Soon it was found that the girl at high risk stage four of cancer. She was in the hospital for 78 days. She had a chest tube for long and kept getting infections. The condition of the little patient was worsened every day. The mother by her side continued to pray. The mother's friend visited them. Having seen the condition of her daughter, the friend advised her to pray. Only God can help her, she was told. She prayed. Prayed and prayed. Prayed for long from her heart.  Now you may listen to the mother: "My daughter is now a thriving 11 years old. I call her my "miracle kid", because that is what she is. This is something about prayer. If you pray wholly surrendered and with total faith your prayer will certainly be answered

(A rare picture of Fidel Castro with Indira Gandhi in 1976 - image by AFP) Can  anyone believe that a man escaped from death 634 times in life? More surprise will be there when you come to know the name of that remarkably fortunate person! The name is known to all of you! It's none other than Fidel Castro, the former Cuban President! This Cuban leader had the distinction of being the only person survived most number of assassination attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Six hundred thirty four, according to a book written by Fabian Escalante, former head of the Cuban secret service, also in charge of Castro's security. Here are some of the failed attempts. Castro's love for cigars was well known. CIA apparently poisoned a box of his favourite cigars with a botulinum toxin strong enough to kill anybody who put one in their mouth. The cigars were delivered to "an unidentified person." This was in 1960-61 just after he siezed power. The cigar

Every human born on this world is assigned with a task. Some of such tasks if we find may seem to be so insignificant and some may even look to be negative for us. Unless each one achieve their assigned task they will not return from here. Shall they return soon after completing their task cannot be said unless we know the task. We also cannot define the assignment unless we know all about it including its impact after many years. And this task cannot be a life long or even years long or months long process. If we really know the task it may last a few hours or few minutes of this long span of  life. Gandhiji's task may looks to be securing independence for India.  It may not be, but something else which he achieved in a little duration of time, later in his life. Thomas Alva Edison has about 1200 patents in his name. However, it may be one of those invention or something else would have been his task. Adolf Hitler ruled Germany, killed millions of Jews and spread terro

We  are living by our actions. Our actions are controlled by our thoughts. Our thoughts are determined by all that is happening around us. Those taking place around us are governed by external forces and standard universal laws. Strong nuclear force, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force and gravity are the four forces. Gravity is the weakest amongst all four. However, this weakest one is holding together all minute things in our earth and all other planets, the sun and the solar system together, the galaxy and so the whole universe.,, What is gravity? I don't think that science can give a comprehensive answer. When there is an independent mass, it has it's own gravity. Proportionate to the increase of the mass the gravity too increase. The mass is made of what, I think, do not hold any significance in the gravity it contains. Gravity is the invisible soul of every planet or star. What it is and where it come from remains a mystery. Now let us go back to where w

It is high time that the government of Kerala to take a firm decision whether they want to find means to raise the revenue or to continue with availing loans trom all sources. If they are intending for more revenue the first available source to consider is tourism. All avenues are now open to raise the income from tourism by over five times of the record earnings of the state. In order to achieve this we need not spend huge sum but should maintain certain basic discipline within our state. No tourist will come here at the risk of their lives. We cannot expect them to stay on public roads. We cannot force them to remain hungry. Irrespective of political considerations, any government ruling the state should ensure, therefore, that: a) Under no circumstances traffic on roads should be suspended. b) Throwing stones or causing any damages to vehicles may be strictly prohibited. c) No shops or offices should  forcefully be closed.  All offenders may be ensured to be punished. If

The richest people/companies in different categories. Farmer Qin Yinglin from China is the agriculture tycoon, billionaire, communist and the richest farmer in the world. He is 56 years old. His net worth is USD 2,060 crores. Fisherman The 50 years old Kevin VanDam from Michigan, USA is the richest fisherman in the world. He is worth $6.84 million. Food Cargill, manufacturing operations and supply chains of food is the richest company in the field of food. The US company with operations over 70 countries employs over 1,55,000 people. The company has a net revenue of $113.5 bn. Pharmaceutical Johnson and Johnson, the New Jersey based American company is the richest in pharmaceutical sector with a net worth of $435 billion. Alcoholic beverages Anheuser-Busch from Belgium with a total assets of $235.65 billion is the richest in alcoholic beverages segment. Textile (India) Reliance Industries is the largest textile manufacturers. They have a market share of $178.95 billion (202

India has become notorious for the corruption activities in our government offices. There are middle men in corruption transactions. They use to say, if money is available, nothing is impossible in our government offices. Bribe  deals are so widespread in our government offices. No result oriented preventive steps are being taken by the people or by the government. It's really a pathetic situation. We cannot afford to continue like this. We must do something on red hot priority. Can we enact the following? 1. Stringent punishment should be ensured. If a government employee is found accepting bribe, such one should be dismissed from service forth with irrespective of the amount received. Further to this year 10 times of the amount involved should be taken from the culprit as fine. The culprits should also put behind bars for a minimum period of ten years. 2. The subject 'bribery' should be treated as a social vice and included in the school syllabus from Class 4

Person with ego is hated by all. Friends would be avoiding them. Success would be evading them. According to Bhagavad Gita 3:27 "Ego misleads a human to think he/she is supremo." Bhagavad Gita also suggests how to escape from the mortal existence when you, "Renounce your egoism  and develop a universal vision of oneness and unity in which you will not hold on to any limited belief, judgement or perception."  The Bible too says about egoism. "It is easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than the wealthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven." Here the wealth indicates ego as the real possession of man is the Holy Spirit and if it is replaced with the self or the ego, it would be absolutely  impossible for him to attain the kingdom of God. Ego is, therefore, the most destructive in this world and that also prevents the world to come. In our day to day life we get oppertunity to understand the size of our ego when confront with a

(Image courtesy - Pinterest) Man is not at all duty bound in this world. The reason is simple, there is no duty prescribed for man by anyone above man. All the so called 'dos and the not dos' are prescribed by fellow beings within the purview of different norms, which might be conflicting with one another.  All good and bad are defined by both good and bad men. In fact where we have come from or where we have to go back is unknown to us.  We are not ours. We do not know much about our physical body. We cannot see it well. We do not know much about its functions. If it goes out we cannot rectify it; need someone's help. Above that, we know almost nothing about the central control system we have. Even the best could not use one third of it. It gets interference from, may be, out side the system. When we know almost nothing about ourselves, we pretend to act as if we know much about others and other things. And we like to rule all those. Sheer ignorance, but unrealised

   Image from serial Guiding Light       (Image courtesy: Pinterest) The longest run TV serial in the world is 'Guiding Light'. With 18,262 episodes in 72 years (15 years in radio and 57 years in TV) still remains unbeatable. This show has also received the Guinness World Records awards. 'The Simpsons' is an animated show screening from 1989 (33 years). It is still being shown and in the realm of animated shows this must be the longest one. 'Another World ' was an American show screened from 1964 to 1999 with 8,891 episodes in 35 years. This was the story of different families from different societies. In India 'Abhishekam' the Telugu serial screened over 4,000 episodes from 2008 to 2022 is the longest shown Indian TV serial. This show was ended on 1st February 2022. 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma' screening from 2008 - present is the longest running Hindi serial.   K V George 

Coffin maker There may not be many stories about people become rich overnight. Here we find a story of a coffin maker from Indonesia. He is  according to NDTV the 33 years old man from Sumatra,  Joshua Hutagalung. When he went to sleep he was a poor one, but when he woke up in the morning he was rich by Rs 9.8 crores. What made him rich was a meteorite that crashed through his roof. The 2.1 kg matter from space was worth Rs. 63,000/- per gram as this meteorite was billions of years old. Miner Recently a miner named Saniniu Laizer from Tanzania could discover two Tanzanite Gemstones from mines. One of these weighed 9.27 kg and the other over 5 kg. Since these two Tanzanite Gemstones are the largest ever found in Tanzania, the government gave a reward to the miner. The reward amount is 7.74 billion Tanzanian shillings (Rs 24.7 crores) And that unexpected thing made the man a millionaire overnight. K V George 

As per various media reports the MRP of Allopathic medicines are much above the cost of production. It is reported that generally the difference goes over a huge percentage. This wide difference must be shared by wholesalers at different stages and upto the final seller, the local medical shop. Most of these medicines are manufactured in different countries. 28% of medicines are manufactured in USA, 13% in China and the remaining 59% is by different countries including India.  Here comes the question. Can some of these medicines be manufactured in Ayurvedic combinations? India is rich in Ayurvedic herbal plants. With little research and a wider cooperation Ayurvedic medicine can be produced in the forms of tablets, capsules etc. And once we focus on the costly international medicines that are mostly unaffordable to common man in India Ayurvedic medicine shall have a wider acceptability. When the price is low and the result is superior it will have an appreciable demand. Wit

 (Image courtesy - Malayala Manorama) Jackfruit is not a regional fruit. It is growing worldwide. It is a big fruit with weight ranges between 10 - 25 kgs. It is rich in nutrients and contains carbohydrates, vitamins, proteins, minerals and phytochemicals. Having composition of shredded meat in it, jackfruit is taken as a substitute for vegetarians. The nutrients contained in jackfruit have  crucial roles in energy production, immunity and chronic inflammation  leading to conditions like type2 diabetes and heart diseases. The compounds and nutrients in jackfruit influence to control the blood sugar positively. Jackfruit powder is now widely used to control blood sugar levels. Kerala has an estimated production of about 29 cores jackfruit in a season now. It may come about 6 million tonnes. Alongwith this information we may also go through another data that shows, Kerala has about 45 lakhs educated unemployed youth including 5 lakhs women who lost their jobs. Our government

DEATH AND AFTER DEATH - A COSMIC EVENT   " D eath is definite. Every death has a cause and I am the cause."   According to Bhagavad Gita this is the Gods version of death. D eath is the most horrible thing man ever visualizes. For other life forms it is an experience when it takes place. They do not foresee and hold a fear of it throughout life. We see death as an end to every thing as far as we are concerned. According to a saying, "The world began the day I born  and the world will end the day I die." Since nothing ends in this universe as a whole death too cannot be an end but only a transformation. I f transformed, a series of questions need to be answered. How does the transformation takes place? What is the shape after the transformation? Where is the transformed one now? These questions are being asked by man from day one, but an answer with clarity is still evading. Of course, fake and fade conceptions are plenty but nothing could a

A few years ago an interview with a foreign lady had appeared in a Malayalam publication. She came to Kottayam by a KSRTC bus. She walked from the bus stand to the central junction. During this short walk, she said that twelve times people had laid their hands on her. It may not be a uncommon thing for the women folk of God's own country. In another instance, a city bus conductor of Ernakulam, during noon time when there were less passengers in the bus, conciously laid hands on the body of a school girl (I think that the man was later arrested by the police.) In another heinous act a 76 years old women was picked from the way side somewhere from north of Trissur, and according to the media reports she was  raped by a young man and thrown to the road side and some passerby had later rescued her. Recently there was a media report about a fifty plus man sentenced to imprisonment for raping a minor girl. Such things goes on and on in the God's own country. These things

Lenin, Stalin and Mao: The three biggest Communist mass murderers. Based on house hold survey the poverty rate in China reached to 63% of the population in 1981. This was declined to 10% in 2004. This indicates that about 500 million people have climbed out of poverty during this period. Ownership by the state and centrally planned economy had earlier brought them to this utmost poverty status. Privatisation began to accelerate after 1992 and the private grew as percentage of the GDP. In fact it was not a sudden turn around but a post Mao transition from 1976. Now China has reached at the No 2 position in GDP after US. GDP per capita income is expected to reach USD 12,081 by the end of 2023. At present China is known to be ranking 71 in the list of world countries in GDP per capita income. We must remember the vast tide of oppression, tyranny and mass murder that communist regimes unleashed upon the world. Historians and others have accounted numerous atrocities by Communis

(Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapit      University, Banaras) Despite being at the top level in GDP alongwith developed nations India remain far below in pci. There are two reasons for this. The first and foremost is lack of education of the people. The second is the rampant corruption in our country. The second too is the outcome of the first because most people do not know how to react in many situations. Before moving further we may have a look at the opportunity for education in states. States with maximum number of Universities (The numbers shown are inclusive of Central University, Central Open University, Institutions of National Importance, State Public University, State Open University, State Private University, Institutions Established Under State Legislature Act, Government Deemed University, Private Deemed University and Others) Tamil Nadu - 59 UP - 58 Andhra Pradesh - 47 Rajasthan - 45 Maharashtra - 44 Karnataka - 43 Gujarat - 37 Madhya Pradesh - 33 West Bengal - 26

Farrel Wu  named as one of the smartest kid in the world by Business Insider while participating in the Australian Mathematics Competition. At the age of 12 Wu could earn a perfect score in the competition in 2012 while other boys and girls were struggling. He could solve maths after his first birthday, and was trading in stocks when he was three years old. The genius was studying algebra at the under graduate level with the help of a mentor in the Michigan University in 2019. Later he wanted to pursue the career of investment Banking. K V George kvgeorgein@gmail.com