Normal And Abnormal

"Aging is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Anonymous Most people in their 20s and 30s become too instable and carrying lot of stress in finding a job and overcoming the financial burdens. By reaching over 60 these stress slowly fade away and start enjoying a life they have made and, therefore, happiness   and well being  are with you. Semantic memory - your knowledge of the world and experiences, including recollection of facts and figures resist aging. Older people tend to write things down and organise their lives in a way that benifits their memory. Seniors are better decision makers,  more emotionally stable and become less impulsive than their younger peers according to research. Old people know the value of their time, energy and happiness. Stress in life are reduced as their children leave the house, they retire, and they have more time to do the things they really want to do. Comparing to the younger ones, the...

Converting a massive population into voting instruments by a handful of people representing different political parties with common interest is made to be called as 'Democracy' in India now. For a good number of people it is an easy way to amass wealth with the so called consent of people. Every action by these 'People's representatives ' deemed to have consent of the whole people. Yet the people do not react. Because they have not taught what is democracy and how to react upon. May be the least preference given in some of the Indian states is for education. Even after about a century of self governance the literacy rate of our country is about 78% with Kerala 96% and Bihar 47% (2011) on both ends. However, in reality, the average literacy of our country must be below 50% because the definition  given for literacy is, anyone above 7 years who can read and write (one's name) is literate. The literacy criteria should be changed upwards every year to th...

Kingdom of Romania was seated in Brand Castle in 1920. Today it is called as the Bran Palace, but it is renowned all over the world as the Dracula Palace. It is now opened to visitors as a historical museum and is the prime attraction for tourists. This horrifying but beautiful castle is surrounded by lush greenary and gives beautiful and attractive look yet with a spooky touch. Count Dracula, the 1897 book written by Bram Stoker is the most portrayed literacy charector with over 700 plus appearances across the world. Countless number of authors have written books on this. Bram Stoker's novel alone was translated in over 30 languages in the world. When we take the total translations in the Asian, European and other countries in the world by all the authors, Dracula may be the most translated novel in the world. Dracula holds the Guinness World record for the most portrayed literacy charector in film with 538 charectors including cinema and tv as on 2015 overtaking Sherl...

(2020_21 Farmer's protests in India) Harthal is a form of protest. It is self sacrificing protest. In order to earn something that democratically eligible for people collectively do this protest. The impact of this protests in all forms are born by the people themselves. The concerned authorities are generally not the losers. Indian farmers strike of 2020-2021 was the largest protest of the world with a participation of 250 million people. This was followed by the Earth Day 1970 with 20 million and Iraq war protest of 2003  with 30 million globally were the other major protests in the world. According to available information for the period of 2009-2014 there were an average of 200 Harthals/protests every day in our country which makes a total of 4,20,000 protests during this period of five years. The government do not have any detailed and perfect account of the loss due to these protests. However as per available information due to the farmers strike in 2020-2021 peri...

Image courtesy, The Indian Express Human killings have become widespread in India. Sons and daughters kill father and mother. Father and mother kill sons and daughters. Brother killing sister and vice versa, husband's and wives kill each other etc can be found almost every day in newspaper reports. The age old culture of our country has been washed out of the country by the modern educational system, cinemas, tv stories etc from our youth. Human values are getting fast eroded from our society. That must be the reason for such amount of people are being killed by our own fellow beings. According to available information more than 82 people are getting murdered every day in India. We must be shameful to be part of this wild humans! The highest murder rates in the world per lakh inhabitants basis is in El Salvador with 52.02, Jamaica with 43.85 and Honduras with 38.93. On the other hand the lowest are Japan - 0.2, Singapore - 0.24, Hong Kong - 0.3, Luxembourg - 0.3 and Ind...

We  Indians have hundreds of issues that need urgent solutions.  For unknown reasons we are least bothered about those issues.  We are keenly interested just in one thing, politics filled with corruption and decorated with religion. We are unable to bifurcate politics, religion and democracy. We Indians forget the fact that India is a democratic nation and we have certain rights and liabilities under the terms democracy. We don't need education, good food and good house. We never ask for these basic needs. We only keep shouting some meanless words " ... Ki Jay" We have enough natural resources. We have adequate number of qualified youth to exploit those resources. Instead of deploying all our unemployed manpower to convert the resources into products and send into the international market and earn foreign exchange we have sent our money into other countries by corrupt means. After watching all these our democratic voters are not at all responding in any manner...

Eman  Ahmed,36, world's heaviest woman from Egypt had not come out of her house for the past 25 years. Her weight was over 500 kg. She was brought out of the ambulance with the help of a crane before moved into a special room in the hospital. She came to Mumbai's Saifee hospital by a special plain from Egypt for a weight loss surgery. After the treatment in the Saifee hospital she lost about 330 kg. From Mumbai she was shifted to Abu Dhabi's Burjeel hospital for further treatment. Finally Eman Ahmed succumbed to the heart diseases and kidney disfunction on Monday the 25 September 2017 at 4.35 pm, 16 days after her 37th birth day. (Courtesy - Web sources for data and image) K V George

St Peters Basilica in Vatican City is the biggest church in the world. According to UN estimate the  world population at the mid year 2023 is 805 crores. (The estimated population of the world as on 2026 is 8.3 billion ) As per the broad estimate by the sociologist Phil Zuckerman, there are about 75 crores people in the world do not believe in the existence of a God.  Therefore, the remaining 730 crores people believe in some form of God and follow some religion and their prescribed observance. There are about 4,000 recognised religions in the world. About 83% of the religious population in the world would fall in 12 major religions. When these are the basic statistics of the religions in the world, we discuss below whether religion and it's God are an individual matter or a social one. No man in the world has ever seen God or spoken to Him. Religion is scripted by man within his knowledge as per his needs. However, if we strictly rely on science and the human body...

           (Stray dogs in Kerala) നായ്ക്കളെ വാഹനങ്ങളുടെ പിന്നിൽ കെട്ടിയിട്ടു കൊണ്ടു വാഹനം വേഗത്തിൽ ഓടിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് പോകുക. എത്ര ക്രൂരമായ പ്രവർത്തിയാണിത്. ഇവർ മനുഷ്യരോടും ഇത്തരം ക്രൂരത കാണിക്കാൻ മടിക്കുകയില്ല. ഈ ഭൂമി നമ്മുടെ മാത്രം കുടുംബ സ്വത്തല്ലെന്ന ബോധ്യം ഇല്ലാത്തതു കൊണ്ടാണ് ചിലർ ഇത്തരം ക്രൂരതകൾ കാട്ടുന്നത്. ഇന്നത്തെ പത്ര വാർത്തകൾ കണ്ടാലറിയാം. നൂറു കണക്കിനു നായ്ക്കളെ ആണു കഴിഞ്ഞ ഏതാനും ദിവസങ്ങൾക്കുള്ളിൽ കൊന്നൊടുക്കിയതെന്നാണ് SPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) ആരോപിക്കുന്നത്. കുറേ നായ്ക്കളുടെ ശരീരം പോസ്റ്റ്മോർട്ടം ചെയ്തെങ്കിലും മരണ കാരണം വ്യക്തമായി കണ്ടു പിടിച്ചില്ലെന്നാണ് മനസ്സിലാകുന്നത്. നായ്കളോട് ഇങ്ങനെ ക്രൂരത കാട്ടുന്നതിൽ സർക്കാരും, കോർപറേഷനും, ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട സംഘടനകൾക്കും ഒന്നും തങ്ങളുടെ ഉത്തരവാദിത്വത്തിൽ നിന്നും  ഒഴിഞ്ഞു മാറാനാവില്ല. നായ്കളുടെ എണ്ണം ക്രമാതീതമായി വർദ്ധിക്കുന്നെങ്കിൽ വ്യാപകമായി വന്ധ്യംകരണത്തിനുള്ള നടപടികൾ സർക്കാർ തലത്തിൽ എടുത്തെ പറ്റു. അലഞ്ഞു നടക്കുന്ന നായ്ക്കളെ പുനരധിവസിപ്പിക്കാൻ സർക്കാർ തന്നെ പദ്ധതികൾ തയ്യാ...

While  allotting Social Security number in US two women got same security number because of an error of the computer. Later when it was detected they were summoned to the concerned office. What was unfolded there was really shocking to all. Names of both women were same, Patricia N. Cambell. Their father's names were also same, Robert Cambell. Both were born on March 13, 1941. Both got married in 1959 to men in the army. Both had two children aged 19 and 21. Both of them could do oil painting. They both studied cosmetology. Both were working in the accounts department. Seeing all these things common for both the computer must have willingly made the number too same!!! K V George kvgeorgein@gmail.com  

The countries  which have less attachments to religions have less crime and more happiness. This must be a baffling statement for most of us. But it is a truth. Let us find the Happiest Countries  in the world as per the ratings of 2021. As per the Crime ratings of 135 countries of 2021 each country's position is also given below. Top 5 countries in crime rating are: Venezuela, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Afghanistan and Honduras. 01. Finland is the happiest country in the world for the fourth year. The education system of this country is the one  envied by the world. It has a self care culture of saunas and outdoor pursuits. Confidence in the government also byhas paid a large part. Mutual trust and protect lives are strictly adhered to. Finland's position in the World Crime rating is 114. As per 2017 survey 55% of Finland's population is atheists. 02. Iceland  The   people of this country know how to pull together in troubling times. They ...

The newly developed defence relationship between US, UK and Australia (AUKUS) had created some unexpected irritation in France. They have expressed their uneasiness by calling back their ambassadors from US and Australia. In fact it can be seen as a  trade related friction. China has already refuted the new tri-nation alliance. The US and France have already started discussion in the matter and got it patched up. However, more such alliance may come up in the near future between other countries. All these alliances may pave the way for drastically cutting down international trade by China. Consequently this will open up more and more new doors for India. We must keep ourselves ready to fill up the gaps immediately. We must conduct an extensive survey to prepare ourselves to give our goods in better quality and at a reasonable price. We may not have lavish time for this. As such we must start doing the spade works right now. India can penetrate in the world market quite ...

We are finding here the GDP of the five Southern states. GDP of 2019-20 Andhra Pradesh - Rs 10.8 lakh cr Karnataka - Rs 15.88 lakh cr Kerala - Rs 8.75 lakh cr Tamil Nadu - Rs 20.54 lakh cr Telangana - Rs 9.69 lakh cr. Per Capita Income of Southern States 2019-20 Andhra Pradesh - $2,400 Karnataka - $3,082 Kerala - $3,040 Tamil Nadu - $3,200 Telangana - $3,049 Along with the above, we may also find the report of Niti Aayog. Kerala is the most investment friendly state in India. In terms of Human Development Index and Life Standard of the people, Kerala is ahead of all other states of the country. In certain development indices Kerala is on par with some of the developed countries of the world. The GDP of Kerala is mostly based on NRI remittance. It is also found that Kerala has scope to become the IT centre of India. The Vallarpadom Container Transhipment Centre is reported to be capable of contributing significantly for the.economic development of the state of Kerala. The on...

  World  road quality index 2019 shows that Singapore, Switzerland and Netherlands rank 1,2 & 3 with score 6.5, 6.4 & 6.3 respectively. India ranks 46 as per this index with a score of 4.6. According to NCRB there were 4.03 lakhs road accidents in India in 2021 killing 1.55 lakhs and injuring 3.71 lakhs people. Road conditions also must be a contributing factor in these road accidents. Neither the government nor the media nor any social organisations show much attention to these human loss. None has come forward suggesting ways and means to bring down these numbers drastically. As per the available information, annual maintenance cost of existing roads in India is Rs 1,50,000 per km. Budget allocation for roads and highways in India for FY 2017-2023 was 1.21 trillion rupees. Unfortunately, whatever the amount allotted by the Central and State governments are said to be not fully utilised for the purpose it meant for as huge amount of corruptive practices ar...

Most of us know that nour children are getting spoilt by whom but for unknown reasons no corrective action is being taken. Charector of a child is formulated primarily by the parents, friends, teachers and amongst them some of  their religious leaders too come in the picture. However, in India especially in the state of Kerala, those who are responsible for charector formulation themselves knowingly tarnish the charector of the children. The moment parents allow their children to associate with politics they are deemed to have lost the cleanliness and perfection of their minds. Politics is the foundation of corruption. In the recent past media reported many illegitimate acts related with college campuses like money swindling, false degree and research certificates, rape, homicide, suicide, destruction of public property and so on. These children are used by senior politicians for their personal preference. For unknown reasons neither parents nor teachers interfere in th...

The answer is straight and simple. 'Yes, we can.' The Supreme One has bestowed us with adequate natural resources and enough people to exploit those. Contrary to all these we have taken a vow that we will never become rich, but will keep on begging till our last breath. In order to  maintain our vow we have made severe bondage with hundreds of political ideologies. Though our country became independent for over seven decades, a good chunk of our population remain tied up here and there. For unknown reasons they don't make any efforts to come out of the self made bondage. Though many say that our country is the fourth richest country in the world  based on GDP, parallelly maintaining 24% - 26% below poverty line. As per international statistics by the IMF (2026) the pci of India stands at $2,700 - $3,000. As per World Population Review report of 2026, countries with the top pci are given below. 1. Luxembourg $145,410 2. Switzerland  $116,005 3. Ireland  ...

* The country   has large resources but the people do not find opportunity to exploit those.  *We can raise the GDP much more but we do not attempt even.  *Poverty can be eliminated but we seem to retain it. *We can be among the richest countries in the world but we do not even look at that direction. *We prefer to talk about tomorrow. Do nothing today. *Millions of people from all over the world wish to come and see our country but we do not welcome them. * We  leave everything upon the government and move around to find faults in governance. *All  that we do are conducting meeting, conference, seminar, loud talk, rally, procession holding flags, close shops, stop vehicles, down the shutters of industries and such great things. We always find pleasure in talking about our great history and culture. Without knowing the Bhagwan and His temple we keep praying in loud voice. We read the great books without knowing the meaning of what is written...

We Indians   boast ourselves about our 'Arsha Bharata Sanskruti' and tradition which stands top on the world. Unfortunately, our acts reveals a reverse theory. We Indians must be the most indisciplined lots in the world. Whether it is in home, school, place of worship or public roads, our performance is certainly in an indisciplined manner. This is because we don't teach our children in schools about discipline. Why we don't teach them, because we ourselves do not know what is discipline. All sorts of corruption in our country is the result of indiscipline. Our political waywardness is also the results of indiscipline. Say the least, huge number of road accidents in our country is nothing but the outcome of indiscipline. The poverty in our country can be eradicated by disciplined life all around. We do not know where we are to go and where we are going. All sorts of strike and protests in our educational institutions is nothing but ignorance from indisciplin...

As of recent data there are 23,500 to 26,000 government hospitals in India. These include primary health centres , community health centres, District Hospitals etc  As per the modern rankings of WHO (2024-2026) Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan are the top countries for health care in Asia. According to a UK based organisation's survey Japan provides the best health care in the world followed by Singapore, South Korea, Norway and Taiwan. Top countries for number of hospital beds per 1,000 people (as per 2025-26 data) South Korea 12.65 Japan 12 63 Germany 7.82 Austria 7.05 Hungary 6.76 Czechia 6.50 India ranks 155 among 167 countries with 0.52 - 1.4 beds per 1,000 population. This is significantly below the recommended number of beds by the WHO. As far as number of doctors are concerned Cuba is on top with 95 doctors per 10,000 population. Followed by: Monaco 86 Seychelles 66 Greece 66 Belgium 65 As per estimated account of 2025-26 India has 1 doctor per 811 peopl...

Recently,  the One who have travelled the maximum number of countries in the world, fortunately an Indian, said in a t.v. transmission about the foul smell that receive us in most of the railway stations in India. Unfortunately, no corrective action is being taken to subside this. In fact this foul smell can be found wherever public urinals/toilets are installed. It may be quite surprising that neither our people not our our governments are taking any corrective measures in this. Let us know the fact our government is loosing considerable amount of foreign money owing to this reason too. For instance, India is a country with large geographical, historical and religious resources to attract tourists from all over the world.  But for our own reasons we fail in this. While the international tourism receipts in 2024 of USA was $215 billion, during the same period Indian receipt was $35 to ,$36 billion. If we look for this huge variation cleanliness too may be a conside...

The  following statement shows the list of countries with families have own house . List of top ten countries with percentage of families are given against each. India's percentage is given at the last. Laos - 95.9, Romania - 95.3, Kazakhstan - 95, Slovakia - 92.9, Hungary - 91.7, Croatia - 90.5, Cuba - 90, North Macedonia - 90 Vietnam - 90, China - 89.68. ___________________________ (16th in the list) India - 86.6 ___________________________ * Indebted to Wikipedia for the above data (Collected between 2014 and 2021) Top 5 Countries in Retail Household Appliances  by Market Size (2021 in USD billion) 1. China - 54 2. USA - 39 3. Japan - 28 4. S.Korea - 22 5. Germany - 19 *Indebted to Global Data Per capita holding of Motor Vehicles  excluding two wheelers are given below. Top ten countries with number of vehicles per 1,000 population are shown. At the end given is India's rating in the bracket and shown the number of vehicles per 1, 000 population. (1) Gibral...

        The Parliament of India When there is a will there are numerous ways. What is that we lack to become richest in the world? We have enough natural resources and  we have more than enough man power to exploit those. Here, neither our government give them opportunity to work nor the people are willing to work. People want to earn without putting any efforts. That is what we have taught them through our age old culture! This free money habit is widely spread in our entire society from top to bottom. Even highly qualified or well plàced people have no hesitation in freely picking from others pockets. There are many media reports about ministers, parliament members, judges, civil service personnel placed at different positions involved in illegitimate monetory earnings. Only a negligible few were brought under the law. Our educational standard has brought us to this level that people may do any paltry things for a few chips. Power and wealth has be...

 (African Payal (weeds) above)  (Furniture from sea weeds, made in South Korea- above) After extensive research, Dutch designer Nienke Hoogliet developed Sea Me, a collection of modern and sustainable furniture from sea weeds. In South Korea there are many products brought out from sea weeds. There are production units engaged in the manufacture of furniture in South Korea. They also use sea weeds for food supplements, health products, cosmetics etc  Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has cultivated about 34,000 MT sea weeds in the coastal areas of India in 2021. It is said to have a price over Rs 950/- per kg (to be got verified). Now we may get into the water hyacinth called African Payal in Malayalam. The scientific name of this is Eichhornia Crassipes or Salvinia Auriculate.  These weeds are thickly spread over the entire backwaters of Kerala. These are said to be used for baskets, curtains, furniture etc. ...

The house names are added to the  names of almost every Malayalees. This must be a unique system in the whole world when we consider the formation of this particular names. While it is indicating the clan, cast, community, lineage or tradition in other parts of India, in Kerala these names are derived from geography, flora and fauna, places of worship etc. Most of the house names in this state might have derived from the name of trees, land shapes (high, low, flat etc) natural water ways like river, stream, canal, pond etc. Then comes small, big and old house. Different colours in Malayalam are also nused in house names. The words big and small in local languages also widely used. Adjacence to temple, church etc also used to indicate house names. Large rock fall, paddy field. flower garden and large agricultural land are also very much used as house names. Gold, silver, copper, iron etc are also used as house names in Kerala. Christian and some Hindu names are rarely us...

Scientific meaning of negative energy is that which is a concept used in physics to explain the nature of certain fields, including the gravitational field and various quantum field effects. The energy given to break an atom is considered as negative energy. On the other hand, if we look into negative energy through theological doctrine we may find different forces. Basically there are two energies in the whole universe. Those are positive energy and negative energy. While God is the centre point of all positive energies, it is the devil who heads all negative energies. Many of our religions teach this. This definition, however, seems to be a wrong one. Since all energies of the universe are originated from the Supreme One negative energy too is from Him only. When we commit sin, it is said to be the influence of negative energy.  The measure of energy we have is inherited. It is the energy of our ancestors that flow into us when we take birth in this world. When we are...

The Central Government without any much financial burden can help the rubber cultivators. What the rubber growers want is not grant, subsidy or any such help. They want a reasonable price for their rubber. This can be given if a suitable demand comes up. Yes, it is already there, not to create one. If the government take a decision to mix rubber with tar for road construction all over the country, huge demand will come up for rubber. The demand will naturally increase the price of rubber. By using the rubberised asphalt the road will have considerable durability, reduced maintenance demand, added safety and noise reduction. Therefore, in a short period of time the government can recoup the higher payment and soon can save considerable sum from other factors. However, there is likely to be some resistance by some people on this proposal. Government may deal with such situation, if arises. Alongwith with this the government can use the Rubber Board to conduct research across ...

Industrial  history of the TATA group commenced in 1868 with a Textile Mill in Mumbai. It was also the beginning of the largest establishment of great human beings in India. This TATA group must be the most stainless business management group in the world. The goodness of this great group was not suddenly added for the business publicity. Soon after they have started their first unit over a century ago they had introduced pension and accident compensation for workers first time among Indian industries. From being a family owned business group, TATA Group have developed into an efficient and professionally managed group in the world. Every Indian have faith in any product of TATA. They don't need a second look or a second thought on a TATA product. And that is trust. Alongwith managing business, TATA Group have created a bond with the people of this country merely on humanitarian ground. Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi alongwith Sri Rattan Tata on 28th of April last ina...

Happiness can be briefly defined as a subjective state of well being of mind. However, this cannot be seen as a standard explanation as it  varies from person to person. For instance, generally in the middle class category of people, at least among Indians wide variety of things make them happy. Some people instantly become happy when they take a few pegs of alcohol. Some get happy when they get some unexpected money. Good friends make some happy. Wonderful results for their doings make almost all happy. Happiness is mostly related to contentment of their doings make almost all categories of people happy irrespective of the fact whether they are rich or poor. Despite all these explanation, happiness is interlinked with three states of mind, that is, contentment, happiness and peace. One factor cannot be separated from the other. Sometimes some people fail to identify each one of this that they are going through. Many people think that large stock of money and other form...

Part V (Continued from yesterday)   Presidential Palace of India   No  confidence motion in the Indian Parliament can lead to a mid term election. Only by impeachment in the American senate can unseat the President. While the Prime Minister appoints the cabinet ministers in India, the president nominate the cabinet and send for approval to the senate in US. In India, as a country there is only one constitution. In US every state has it's own constitution. The basic difference between India and the USA is that India has a parliamentary form of government while US has a Presidential system of government. As far as the system of government is concerned we Indians have excessive freedom, but the benefits of it goes to the extremely wealthy and those holding the power. As such despite over seven decades rule by different political parties, the three major issues we have discussed could not be sorted out and contrary to this these are growing up. Corruption has beco...

Part IV (Continued from yesterday) According to Abraham Lincoln a democratic government is - of the people, by the people and for the people. As per the report of Economic Times there are 94.5 crores voters for the ensuing Lok Sabha election. As per democratic norms the government to be formed after the election will be of the 94.5 crores voters and their under aged family members, and that government will be said to be by the people and again it is is believed that it is for the people. If the government is within true democratic norms it cannot become corrupt. That is, the tax money of the people cannot be swindled by a few people in front of all preventive systems. In our democracy we cannot ensure safety of life of about half of the population (women). The GDP - PCI growth cannot remain disproportionate and a section continue to remain below poverty line, if the government is truly and fully of the people, by the people and for the people. The so called democracy is onl...