Normal And Abnormal

May it be any religion,  the purpose of praying for the departed souls are the same. It is a prayer to the God to forgive their sins and to grant them joyful living in the heaven. Whatever may be the style and language of the prayers, the One who listens to all these is the same. According to almost all religious teachings,  the prayer for the departed souls is a request to God to exempt them from punishment. Before moving further, we must know about punishments. In a divine term it cannot be called punishment but it is refinement. According to Bhagavad Gita everything in this universe is originated from Krishna. "aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate iti matva bhajante man budha bhava samanvitah"    _ Bhagavad Gita Ch 10 Verse 8 (I am the source of all spiritual and material world. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.) Everything including man are ori...

What are all happening in our country  is something quite uncommon. In fact at some parts of the coutry, may be a wider part, women are treated worse than even animals. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in 2022 UP topped the country in crime against women (such as rape, murder, kidnapping, murder after rape and gang rape). The record shows 65,743 such cases in 2022 compared with 56,083 in 2021 and 49,385 in 2020. These things are happening throughout our country. If we take the annual figures of the women attacked and killed in our country it would be more than the female population of many countries of the world. We should be ashamed of what is happening in our country.  So far we have not taken any effective, result oriented steps to save our own mothers, sisters and daughters from these wild beasts. The entire humanity around the world have to bow their heads over the pathetic conditions of the women of India. Finally the West Bengal government h...

        Shooting site of Hindi movie  Malayalam  cinema holds a reputed name in the artistic and cultural front in the world. While our country itself is notorious in the ranking of safety of women in the world, Kerala is equally an unsafe place for women irrespective of age. Until now we had the impression, despite staines here and there, cinema is a work field of the cultured people. Of course we cannot escape from our politically inherited culture. Let us not forget that our country is the one which seen a woman on the original form of God Aadi Parashakti. However, of late, the political situation of our country, irrespective of any particular party brought the people into an indisciplined state. Politics have crept into every field of human life. It is injected into the people that anyone can escape after committing crime if one has political support and money in the pocket. And that has encouraged even well known people of the film field to...

We  all quite frequently say that I know him very well. We say that we are so conversant to him, know all about his family and we are so well versed about his character. In fact do we know what we utter? Not at all must be the answer. Now let us turn back to ourselves and ask the same question. Do we know ourselves? If so to what extent? Our answer may be so paltry and too petty because we do not know anything about ourselves but pretend to know all about others. It is the same thing that makes us to curse others and praise ourselves. All that others do are wrong and all that we do are right. Almost all human beings are suffering from this mental trauma. It is nothing but an idiotic state of mind. We do not know about ourselves is the truth, but we are reluctant to admit it. We act as if we know all about ourselves. And that befool us. We keep on playing foolish games in front of others and also with ourselves. Let us now admit the truth that we do not know anything abo...

Kerala is a tiny state in the southern part of India with the current population of 35.97 millions. The sex ratio of the state is 1084 female per 1000 male whereas the national sex ratio is 1020 female per 1000 male (2023). The literacy rate of the state is 99.31% against the national average 85.94% as per the prediction of 2024. While the median age of Kerala is 35 years that of India is 28 years. When the per capita income of Kerala in 2022-23 is Rs 2,63,945, it is in the 11th position among other Indian states. Beyond the human factors, nature have blessed the state with unending natural beauty. And that made this part of the country as God's own country. Time magazine announced in 2022 that Kerala is the one of the fifty must visit tourist spot in the world. National Geographic Traveller magazine in 2012 named Kerala as one of the ten paradise of the world. All said and done, we could not market our tourism in the world. While USA earned US$ 1.8 trillion...

(Manu Bhaker with Olympic medal for shooting. Image courtesy: Business Standard) Top six countries in the final medal tally of the Paris Olympics 2024 are given below. (Country* Population*Gold*Silv*Brnz)                   in millions USA     345.62            40 - 44 - 42 China 1418.96           40 - 27 - 24 Japan  123.00           20 - 12 - 13 Aus        26.70           18 - 18 - 16 Fra         66.56           16 - 26 - 22 Ned       18.24           15 - 07 - 12 India 1452.38          00 - 01 - 05 This makes India's position in the medal tally at 71. In the total medal tally of all modern Olympic games, USA with 2959 medals is on top, followed b...

(A major debris flow was triggered by heavy rainfall in and around Chooral Mala town of Wayanad district of Kerala. Courtesy: India Today, NRSC) According to a recent report by India Today, during the period between 2015 and 2022 there were 3782 landslides in India, out of which 2239 were in Kerala, that  may works out to 59.2%. However as far as the devastation and casualties are concerned what has been taken place in Wayanad on 30 July 2024 is the deadliest of Kerala in the recent history. As per the available information the number of human loss until now is worked to over 400. Considerable number of people are still missing. Since all of them could not have been traced out including young kids the figure cannot be estimated now. In spite of a number of warning by the environment committee, indiscriminate quarrying and deforestation continued and that was the cause for the landslide in Chooral Mala and Mundakkal in Wayanad. The successive governments cannot wash thei...

Whichever party rules the country, all the negatives take place in the same order. The list of such negatives may be too long. Let us pick three negatives from that long list and find means to eradicate these at the earliest. 1. Monetory corruption 2. Crime against women 3. Illiteracy Monetory corruption is rampant at all levels. Prime reasons for large amount of crime including violence and killings, floating of unaccounted money that weakens the economic development, misrules by successive governments etc are nothing but the outcome of corruption.  As per the Gender Gap Report published on July 13, 2022 by World Economic Forum,  India ranks 135 among 145 countries. 11 countries below India includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chad, Iran, Congo etc. This shows how pitiful is the safety of our women in our country. Other serious issue is widespread illiteracy in our country. This helps politicians, irrespective of parties to befool the people in large numbers. This is b...

Just think about : There is only one in the whole universe that will never be destroyed and that is darkness! ഒന്നു ചിന്തിച്ചു നോക്കൂ : ഈ പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിൽ ഒരിക്കലും നശിക്കാത്ത ഒന്നേ ഒന്നു മാത്രമേ ഉള്ളു, അതാണ് അന്ധകാരം! K V George