Normal And Abnormal

According to the book, Corruption in India, written by Professor Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari Rs 921 billion or 1.26% of our GDP is transacted through corruptive means. Corruption in India is not just born overnight. It is prevailing here for long and finally our  billion population have admitted it as part of their life. Even the most poor one while going to a government office for any service carry something in his pocket. Why corruption is rampant in our country? Don't we have adequate laws to prevent corruption? Is there any lenience in those meant for picking the offenders? All these put together must be the reason for the growth of corruption in our country. In fact the successive governments are not taking result oriented measures to prevent corruption in our country. When our generation has totally failed to eradicate corruption from our country let us at least make the way clean for our descendents. A large percentage of poverty in our country, underdevelo...

What are the basic factors of any country that makes them economically strong is nothing other than natural resources available in that country and the people available there to exploit those and put them to use for the betterment of humanity around the world. As far as India is concerned we are rich in these two. But there are some strong forces that pull us back. Though we can easily overcome these, the system that is prevailing here for pretty long time force us to concede to those. It is high time for us to take these two steps. Step one is to fully eliminate corruption from every field. Step two is to raise our literacy to 100%. For that we must raise our standard of education. Minimum qualification for anything in the country should be made graduation. In order to achieve that educational expenses upto graduation, other than specialised subjects should be brought down considerably. As far as corruption is concerned, the existing laws should be rewritten in...

            (Hydroelectric plant) Ranking of countries by the quality of electricity supply, based on the report of 2019. Country  Bahrain, Trinidad and Tobago,  Taiwan, Chile, South Korea, Finland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and                  Iceland                               100          Israel                               99.9     Belgium                                99.8 Japan                                    99.7 Countries with the lowest access to electricity. South Sudan  - 7%      ...

"Jesus answered him,  "If I have said anything wrong, tell everyone here what it was. But if I am right in what I have said, why do you hit me?" (John 18:23) Just on hearing something said by Jesus, the guard hit Him without knowing what He said. The poor guard could not answer the Lord therefore. This is what we see right from the very moment He was arrested from the garden upto the very moment Pilate announced the sentence for His crucifixion until death. No one till the last moment could point out a single error for His punishment. Since Jesus came to this world for all the sufferings He had and finally for the sacrifice on the cross, Jesus accepted everything without any protest. Jesus, therefore, gave Himself for saving the entire humanity of this world. K V George 

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 ...

"The girl at the gate  said to Peter, "Aren't you also one of the disciples of that man?" "No, I am not." Answered Peter.. (John 18:17) Here we find two things. One is that the girl referes Jesus so carelessly, "... that man". Had she knows that she was referring the Supreme One, the Creator of the world, no words would have come out of her mouth. This is what is happening even today amongst ourselves. We are all unable to know the God and His greatness. In the other one, Peter so bluntly says that he doesn't know his all powerful Supreme Leader. Let us understand the truth that most of the people in the world look at the God without realising Him. K V George 

The term  AI (Artificial Intelligence) was introduced in the Dartmout work shop in 1956. John McCarthy was one of the most influential person behind AI. He is therefore, known as the father of artificial intelligence in the world. During 1950 Alan Turing published a book called 'Computer Machinery and Intelligence' and this became the reference book for all those subsequently entered into this field. The rapid growth as well as struggle of this technology was in the 1980s. However, in the 1970s itself, the first anthropomorphic robot was built in Japan, during this period. This was the first example of an autonomous vehicle being built by an engineering student. Cars using AI technology can be found across the world. The prime advantages of Artificial Intelligence is that AI PCs are elevating productivity, creativity, improving better security and privacy through on-device. Enhanced decision making, increased efficiency, cost reduction, improved accuracy etc are amo...

"I have already told you that I am he," Jesus said. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these others go." (John 18:8) With these words, Lord Jesus Christ confirmed to the Father that what He has said become true. He assured the Father, "Father, I have not lost even one of those you gave me." By doing so the Supreme Sacrifice was fully confined to the Supreme One.

"When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they moved back and fell to the ground. Again Jesus asked to them, "Who is it you are looking for?" "Jesus of Nazareth ", they said." (John 18:6 & 7) Men of those time, without knowing what they were doing, were trying to accuse the Creator of the entire universe, and being the purest of all, who came to the world as a human being, was absorbing all the negatives of humanity to clean them and save them. The men there looked at Him as a huge sinner deserving to be executed. Those men did not know that He Himself offered to be sacrificed to save them too. The symptoms they could witness and feel instantly, when they moved back and fallen to the ground.

"Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. "I am he," He said. Judas, the traitor, was standing there with them. All was set for the first scene of the Supreme Sacrifice. God Himself have come to the world as man to get Himself sacrificed to save the entire humanity from a certain destruction. All necessary elements like the traitor, the representatives of the rulers, the religious leaders, the Pharisees and the like and more than the required soldiers were assembled there to arrest the most Pure and legitimate One of the whole universe. And that is how the sacrifice began in the garden to save the entire mankind. . K V George 

WORD THAT WORTH  "Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to Him, so He stepped forward and asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?" (John 18:4) Let us remember here that the sacrifice of Lord Jesus Christ was well planned and fixed in minute details because it was the decision by God Himself. All the charectors in this were specially created for. Thie must be the greatest thing ever happened in the world; that is, God Himself is sacrificing Himself for His own humans. K V George 

"I in them and You in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me " (John 17:23) This is what we must say the love of God.  And this is absolutely pure love. God's love is always pure and it is not in fractions for sharing. It is always full and total. If we can understand this love and share with God as well as our neighbours, our external life is certain. Let us love God and our fellow humans! K V George 

"I gave them the same glory you gave me, so that they may be one, just as you and I are one." (John 17:22) What Jesus says here is humanly impossible. We live here for our glory. All those we get we retain with us to glorify more and more. Wheres the God who possess the whole glory in Him has no reluctance to share it with our beloved people. Man should learn many things from this. K V George 

"I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you no are in me." (John 17:21) Here we find Jesus the Son of God pray to the Father for all those with Him. Jesus, as He wholly surrendered to the Almighty Father wishes to place  all His people at the mercy of the Supreme One. As He and the Father are One in Themselves wishes all His people also be with them. This is the Divine sharing! K V George  Note: Due to some technical issues with the in our phone this is being placed here.

"I gave themq your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world." (John 17:14) Lord Jesus Christ tells His Father about the assignment entrusted upon Him by the Father. The Son  who came to the world to teach the human beings about the noble advice the Supreme One.gave. However  instead of availing the best opportunity to attain the Eternal Life in the Heaven, they bluntly rejected it. In short  bhmen  on.the earth  rejected words of God the Father and accepted the words of devil the destroyer. 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...

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...

We  call our home state Kerala 'God's Own Country'. During 2022 the revenue from tourism to the state is USD 552.69 million (Rs 4,500 crores) Projected earnings from Tourism in top countries of the world are: (In billion USD) USA - 190.4 China - 154.1 Germany - 66.23 Japan - 40.28 UK - 39.14 (Published by Statista Research Department on March 15, 2023) From the above list it could be found that how paltry is the earnings from Tourism in Kerala in comparison with the above countries. Our concerned departments and tourism specialists may have enough explanations to substantiate our poor performance. However, before straightening our backborn we must ask ourselves about what we have done to enhance the revenue from tourism. When we individually take the tourist destinations like beaches, forest with wild animals, boating through lakes, large greenary filled land, series of green and black hills etc,  there may be many better beaches, forests etc in different countr...

Many of us feel that we are misunderstood by others. Those include our own family members, our close friends and relatives, our superiors and coworkers and the list may go on and on. Why it happens so? Is it so that we are not able to present our true self. Generally people on first sight of a new one who could be moved around closely in the future, create a person in him. Later if the same person is found in him, he may fall in the category of the expected personality. Even a minor variation noticed shall make him a strange one and all that is observed in him shall be seen as strange and negative. Those around us always expect our personality to be one matching with their design. If not, we cannot be in the category of good one. They will never try to see the true person in us. But by the time they realise our true self it would be confined to a few words, "I am sorry for I couldn't understand you." Therefore, it is always preferable for us not to compromise ...

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...

(Chinese spy ship Yuan Wang 5 research vessel: image courtesy - The New Indian Express) (The Hambanthota Port - image courtesy: The Business Standard) Chinese spy ship 'Yuan Wang 5' is reported to be heading towards Hambanthota port of Sri Lanka. The ship is likely to be docked there by 11th. China Merchant Port made an investment of $1.12 billion and bought 85 percent stake in Hbanthota International Port Group under an agreement with Sri Lanka Port Authority in 2017. This agreement also created an economic zone  of 15,000 acres land which comes under Chinese control. Surprisingly this lease agreement is valid for a period of 99 years. Had India gave adequate diplomatic attention before arriving at such a situation it could have been safely avoided. Now making some sounds here is not likely to yield any results. Whatever is happened is happened. It cannot be corrected now. The only possible solution to overcome this unwanted situation is to have a secre...

According to the Women. Peace and Security Index by Georgetown University and the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Denmark is ranked as the safest country  for women in the world. Nordic countries like Norway , Iceland, Sweden and Finland closely follow in the global list. Singapore is found to have one of the urban safest environment globally. Ranking of top countries among the total  surveyed countries with a number of 181. 1 Denmark, 2 Iceland, 3 Norway, 4 Sweden, 5 Finland, 6 Luxembourg, 7 Belgium, 8 Netherlands, 9 Austria, 9 New Zealand. Our Motherland India ranks 128 out of 177 countries. India  In 2025 alone there is a sharp surge reported in cyber crimes targetting women. According to National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal during the last one year 76,650 cyber crimes were reported against women. Asper available records, considering the crime reported against women in 2023 and 2024 the annual crime rate comes around.4.4 lakhs. While analysing the data of N...

Love  is said to be eternal, but picking a bride involves quite strange and tedious custom. A custom exist in Combodia and among some African tribes, where unmarried teens are even encouraged to stay in 'courting huts' to entertain potential suitors away from the parents' gaze. In these huts, they are allowed to explore multiple partners, all in a quest to find that true love. In an annual courtship event, the men of the Woodabe Fula in Niger dress up in elaborate costumes, put on make-up and dance and sing in a bid to win a bride. At the end of the performance it is the women who get to do the choosing. In Wales the lover is presented with a meticulously carved wooden spoon as a gesture that they will always feed and provide for them. If the affections are not mutual, the spoon is returned. If the spooning is successful, the sweetheart must wear it round their necks for a number of days. 'Jumping the broom' means in American Deep South is that the newly...

It may be the first time in modern India that a state Chief Minister sending his own Minister to the jail on corruption charges. The sacked minister is reported to have sought one per cent commission from a sanctioned contract. It is the Chief Minister himself took the initiative to send the accused to the jail. While assuming the office the CM had promised the state that he would not allow any corruptive practice in his state by whomsoever it may be. And now he has proved worth of his words. This is what the people all over the country expect from all rulers, whether from the centre or the state. Let this remain as a model for chief ministers of all states. The people of the whole country may like to stand and salute the trustworthy act of the Punjab Chief Minister. K V George 

                  (Surgical room) The  first recorded robot assisted surgical procedure was in 1985 when the PUMA 560 robotic surgical arm was used in a  delicate neurosurgical biopsy, a non-laparoscopic surgery. Then in 1988 PROBOT was used to perform transurethral prostate surgery. In 1992 an image guided system named Robodic Surgical System was developed for the use in prosthetic hip replacement. This was the only robotic system cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use in orthopaedic surgery. In 1996 the AESOP 2000, replaced the pedals with a voice control system, allowing the surgeon to have control of the endoscope. By using its voice, the system eliminated the necessity of an assistant to hold the endoscope. The platform evolved to AESOP 3000 increasing the degree of freedom, and had its final platform with the AESOP HR (HERMES Ready) having integrated voice control and functi...

The following countries are beyond reachable level for we Indians. Our political leaders, without any reluctance, go to the extent of promulgating our achievements. Now, let us compare those 'would be' achievements with the realities in many countries in the world. Let us think whether we can ever reach those. Highest GDP per capita income:  Luxembourg has the highest GDP per capita income in the world $1,28,820 (Rs 1,04,34,420) One crore four lakhs thirty four thousand four hundred twenty rupees per capita income for we Indians can only be possible in dreams. Lowest poverty: Iceland  has the lowest poverty rate in the world. In 2017 it reached 0% and in 2021 it came upto 4.9% India ranks 111 out of 125 in Global Hunger Index 2023. No crime and no cops Netherlands is a country unimaginable for we Indians.  There are no cops, no jail and no jail staff because there are no crimes and no prisoners. On 31.12. 2021 there were 5,54,034 prisoners in India. We have 13...

Media  have two ways to get to the people. One is, reach the people where they are. The other is bring the people where the media is. In the earlier times the former method was preferred but now it is the latter. So long as public activities are there news is part of it. Earlier style of reporting was that the actual situation was made known to the people but now the media decides whether the subject action is to be cut down to size or to flare up. Years ago, a political leader while addressing a meeting vomited on the stage. The style of reporting was: his own party said, the leader after extensive travel and attending a good number of meating could not have timely food and that made the poor soul to vomit. The opposition party mouth piece said that the leader had attended many liquor parties and that prompted the vomiting. However, no one could just report the fact that the person during speaking vomited on the stage. Media has a tendency while reporting a particular ...

According to various web sources, about 73,000 cases are pending in the Supreme Court of India. In all Indian courts put together,  over 44 million cases are pending. As on Jan 2021  there are 1,05,560 cases of those are 30 years old. Less than the required number of courts must be one of the reasons for the huge amount of pending cases.   As per available information there are 204,096 courts in China, 67,994 in Russia and 29,023 in USA. In  India  there are  25 High Courts other than the Supreme Court. Altogether there are 23,790 judges. The reasons for such amount of pending cases are said to be the following. Less number of judges, absenteeism of judges, process of trial of a case, strike by advocates, frequent transfer of judges etc. While we discuss about the process of trial cases, we may find that according to WJP (World Justice Projects) Rule of Law Index 2020, Denmark, Norway and Finland topped the Index. Venezuela, Combodia and DR...

A view of Highway 10 of Saudi Arabia.      The entrance of NH 44 in J&K A private road, Highway 10 connecting Highway 75 in the Haradh area to Highway 95 in the West of Saudi Arabia  built for King Fahad has a length of 240 km. This link highway pass through the desert with no bend on either side. It also has no any considerable  gradient up or down. This is the longest straight road in the world at one stretch with no bend and no gradient. The driving time needed for the whole length is 2 hours. India The longest road in India is NH 44 from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu with a length of 3745 km. (Indebted to the report of Tribune dated 13th March 2018) K V George

        (Hair cut saloon in Paris) Hair Cut Charges in different Cities   Country                    Men    Women   City                                      (In USD) Mumbai                      05.96   06.40 Jakarta, Indonesia    04.50   07.30 Istanbul,Turkey          12.57   22.37 Mexico City                11.50   15.34 Warsaw, Poland         15.22   23.73 Shanghai, China         10.10   16.93 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14.76   40.89 Madrid, Spain              19.50   27.03 Auckland, NZ    ...

(This is a little old news. Just being published as a reminder only) Almost all newspapers carried this heartbreaking news today. According to reports a 13 years old Dalit girl was lured by four youths and took her away out of her house and she was gang raped by these atrocious human beasts. The poor girl at her worst physical condition went to the nearest police station in a town in UP to lodge the complaint. What was that happened afterwards is unbelievable. The Station House Officer of the police station alongwith five cops were arrested on charge of raping the 13 years old Dalit girl in the police station where she came to lodge the complaint of the gang rape by four youth. All 29 personnel of the police station have been sent to the police lines. Detailed report may bring more cruelty in the matter. Why we Indians become barbarous and habitual rapists? There are two reasons behind this. One is that we never tell our children that rape is a heinous crime and should neve...

Is jelly fish a life form? Yes, it is totally a life form. It is a natural living animal. It is nearly related to corals and sea anemones. Though these are multi cellular marine animals, they do not have brain and heart but feel the world around by a simple set of nerves. They eat, drink, feel and reproduce. About 95% of the body consists of water. It is made of cells and need food for energy and growth. Though they are called fish, they do not fall in the category of fish but are invertebrates. They too have a uniform shape called radial symmetry. The weight of jelly fish is widely varying from a few grams upto around 200 kg. People do eat jelly fish. Those are widely used as a delicate item in China, Japan, Korea , Thailand etc and in some other countries too. Jelly fish are found more in coastal zones and warm tropical sea. Since jelly fish are easy to catch, many fishes eat them in good quantity. As these are mainly containing water and hav stinging cells, they produce ...

As it cannot be diluted , gold retains value much more than any other form of currency. Gold is found as a strong and secured guard against inflation. While comparing of storing wealth in the form of cash and gold, the latter remain much more advantageous. We may find below the top countries with highest amount of gold stock (in Tonnes). USA 8133 Germany 3359 Italy 2452 France 2436 Russia 2302 China 1948 Switzerland 1040 Japan 846 India 754 Netherlands 612 (Courtesy for data and images of web sources) K V George

Bathrooms were the most short stayed part of the house once. It was a place to go in and come out quickly. Today bathroom is displaying the luxury and financial status of the family. We may find below some luxurious bathrooms from different parts of the world  Balinese style bathroom in Hawaii. Located in a house bought for $13.5 million in 2013. This underwater bathroom is located in Dubai in a man made island called Palm Jumeirah. The Hang Fung Gold Technology Group owns the most expensive toilet in the world. It is said to be worth $5 million as per current gold price as it is entirely made by gold. (Courtesy for data and images to different web sources) K V George

In 2018, there were widespread reports of a 53 year old Frenchman who had suffered a cardiac arrest and died. He was then resuscitated back to life after 18 hours from the arrest of his heart. This was brought to have been possible in part because his body had progressively cooled down naturally after his heart had stopped, through exposure to the outside cold. The medical team who revived him were reported as being 'stupefied' that they had been able to bring him back to life, in particular since he had not even suffered brain damage. Interestingly, this man represents one of a growing number of extraordinary cases in which people who would otherwise be declared dead have now been revived. It is a testament to the incredible impact of resuscitation science - a science that is providing opportunities to literally reverse death, and in doing so, shedding light on the age-old question of what happens when we die. Throughout history, the boundar...

The Yungas Road  also commonly known as the most dangerous road in the world or death road. This road is one of the few routes that connects the Amazon rain forest region of the northern Bolivia, to the capital city of La Paz. Most of the road has enough width for a single lane. When a driver faces incoming traffic, he must maneuver in the tight and treacherous space he has to continue his journey. This narrow road cut precariously into the side of the mountain with sheer vertigo-inducing drops off on one side and hulking rock overhangs and cascading waterfalls on the other. There are no guard rails for most of the road. Landslides, fog and water falls are those constantly causing threats for the drivers. The road became famous in the 1990s after happening several recurring accidents. Cars and buses plummeted down its cliffs of over 600 meters high'. An estimated 200 to 300 people died every year in different accidents until 1994. 18 cyclists alone died sinc...

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