Normal And Abnormal

A true life story is being narrated here. This was happened sometime in the early 1960s. There were a few carpenter families staying near to my house in Kottayam, Kerala. One day morning I went to one of those houses. The house owner aged around 35 came out of the house to the front yard to talk to me. He was followed by his wife and a few kids. The man was talking to me and suddenly fell down and started shaking his body violently. He kept on speaking something but was not legible. He then shouted at the height of his voice, "My youngest son is met with an accident and admitted in a hospital and you are all enjoying here." This was what he talked in the local language probably in a tone of anger. Before telling further I shall give a brief about the family. The father of the man, who fell down and talking in an unconscious state, was also a carpenter and died about an year back at the age of around 70. He had five children. The first, second and the only sister's hus...

One third of the world population is Christians and over 17% of the total population is Catholics. Brazil (12.5 Cr), Mexico (10.0 Cr), Philippines (8.5 Cr), USA (7.0 Cr) and Italy (4.1 Cr) are  the top ranking countries in Catholic population. There are about 2 Cr Catholics in India. This makes about 1.5% of the total population. Syro Malabar Church which is in communion with Pope and the Catholic Church world over has its headquarters in Kerala and as per the Annurio Pontificio of 2016, has over 4 million members. The SM  Church is spread across the world depending upon the strength of Malayalees in each region. It is worth mentioning that the Eparch of Kalyan has 100,000 members with 106 parishes and 146 religious priests and St Thomas Syro Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago, USA has 85,000 members with 11 parishes and 45 religious priests. Within the state, Ernakulam - Angamaly with 510,000 members in 347 parishes and Changanacherry with 390,000 members in 366 parishes...

Acc ording to available information there were 1,50,785 accident deaths in 4,80,652 road accidents in India during 2016. In other words, there are 413 deaths and 1,317 accidents every day. It is equally important to find that there are 41 countries in the world which have population less than 1.5 lakhs. One can, therefore, gaug e the gravity of the matter. Let us get deeper into the subject. Total automobiles manufactured in India in 2016 was ,24,016,599 nos. This figure rose up to 25,316,044 in 2017. There is an increase of 5.41%. Total registered vehicles as on 31.03.2015  were 21,00,23,289 nos. Total length of motorable roads in India as on 31st Mar 2016 was  56,03,293 km. This makes an average of 1.42 km road length per sq.km of land. Now let us find the number of vehicles per km of road in selected countries. Italy - 81, Germany - 80, UK - 76, Malaysia - 72, Japan -64, France - 39, Russia - 35, USA - 31, Saudi Arabia - 20, Brazil - 18,  Australia - 17, China - ...

Banking scandal has become almost a daily news. Those who have taken away huge sum from the tax share of the common man, those have been paid handsomely for the safe custody of the money, those who are heavily paid for the audit of the bank accounts, those who are sitting at the helm of affairs of the banks, those who are steering from the apex bank and those who are elected by the people to supervise the whole proceedings most honestly are all to be held responsible in this matter. Now, who are to be punished and what should be the punishment is to be decided by the people together with the judiciary. The media should update the people with timely and factual reports. There is no meaning in giving the matter back to the politicians to conduct an enquiry and report to the people. If the people fail to wake up to the call more disastrous things shall take place repeatedly. There is no meaning in accusing a person or party for this. It is the deficiency and the shortcoming of the prev...

Forg iveness is the essence of Christian teaching. Jesus Christ, throughout His life, taught all those around to forgive between themselves. Jesus is full of love. He is the incarnation of love. Forgiveness is the outcome of love. There cannot be any forgiveness without love and vice versa. In today's world forgiveness is confined to a few words like sorry, excuse etc and limited to a sum called compensation. Even loss of life is compensated with money, that too by variable sums from person to person. In Christianity forgiveness is relief from the punishment for sins. The agony of man in any forms like disease, pain, hunger, poverty, failures etc are the results of the negative energy contained in oneself. This negative energy is not created overnight but accumulated through generations. These negative powers can be eliminated by one method only, forgiveness by Lord God in the form of Son of Man. When Jesus cured a leper, restored eyesight to a blind one, brought a disabled one to...

I am neither a military analyst nor a warfare expert. I am only a layman looking around and watch keenly all that fall into my vicinity. Being a peace loving Indian, I get irritated when our so called good neighbour China make intrusion into my motherland and make tall claims over our territory. The government of that country also try to precipitate issues which are under negotiation with our neighbours and which can be resolved peacefully. We have land dispute with one of our neighbours since long. Despite our best efforts the issue remains unresolved. Of late China further irritates all of us by making unauthorised construction in the disputed land merely ignoring the patience of the peace loving Indians. China seems to be over enthusiastic about there arms store but fails to apply the common sense that these are to be aimed at a nation which has travelled far beyond 1962. Even though we are in no mind to enter into war with any countries China should not try to take advantage of ...

Contr ary to the continues growth for centuries Christianity shows a negative tendency for the past some decades. Church attendance is diminishing constantly in some European countries and America. More churches are sold or closed than the new ones constructed. In many countries the youth are keeping themselves away from church activities. In some European countries, which were considered as the citadels of Christianity, Sunday mass is attended mostly by old people and on weak days the attendance has come down to 10 to 15 people. It is informed through reliable sources that seven Catholic Churches have been sold in the recent past in a European country which are now converted as Orthodox Churches. Sale of churches are taking place in USA, UK etc quite frequently. From 1990 to 2000 the combined membership of all Protestant denominations in the US declined by 5 million members (9.5 %) while US population increased by 24 million (11%) Christianity is on the decline in UK, Australia, Ger...