Normal And Abnormal

Most of the vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, eggs, milk, packed food and ingredients for food brought into the state of Kerala  are highly contaminated and adulterated. The media have highlighted it time and again but the so called people's government do not take adequate measures to prevent this corrupt human activities for one reason or the other. A report prepared by the Food Quality Monitoring Laboratory under the Council for Food Research and Development (CFRD) indicates presence of pesticides that has rendered several lots of vegetables unfit for human consumption. Out of 44 lots of vegetables collected from different markets across Kerala, 10 samples contained organo chloro residue above permissible limits, which meant they were unfit for human consumption.(This refers to a report appeared in The Hindu, Kochi dtd 12th Jan 2014) Formalin is generally used for the preservation of fish. Formalin, a toxic and carcinogenic chemical commonly used to preserve dead bodies in mortu...

It is high time that we Indians should realise the truth that we are not ruled by political parties with any ideology but by many number of criminals who have committed murder, attempt to murder, crime against women and the like. The 16th Lok Sabha recorded the highest number of members with criminal cases against them; a whopping 34%. This figure was quoted by The Hindu from a  report compiled by the Association of Democratic Reforms. Among the states, however, credit go to Maharashtra, UP and Bihar with the highest number of elected members with criminal cases against them. There is another blazing account that 82% of the newly elected MPs and MLAs of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha have serious criminal charges against them. Further to these 18% of cabinet ministers have criminal charges against them including crime against women, murder and attempt to murder. If we allow these criminals to rule us what can we expect from them? Can any woman be safe in India? Can the life of any indivi...

A four column news appeared on the 6th page of Malayala Manorama of this day has prompted me to write this. An MLA of the ruling party of UP along with his brother and a gang of thugs entered into a house in Unnao and pulled out an eighteen years old girl and raped her en masse. This is happened about an year back. Since then the father of the victim has been approaching the police to register a case but the police have refused register the complaint for the past one year. The poor man was finally attacked by the goons of the MLA. The police have immediately registered a case against the victim and sent him to the jail. At last the poor man died, rather killed, in the jail yesterday. The girl has made a suicide attempt in front of the house of the Chief Minister. Despite all these the culprits are moving around freely looking for other prey and the police is not bothered for anything. Is this our India? Where is the Vanitha Commission? Where are the innumerable number of women's o...

Crime against women is very much on the rise in Kerala. This state has become unsafe for women. Why our men are behaving like this? We must find an answer to this before we look for a remedy. I would like to give various reasons for this sexual aberration rather wild behavior that does not fit to the highly boasted Indian culture. * Lack of stringent punishment for the offenders. * Easy to escape after committing the offence. * Our men are sexually starved. * Lack of adequate sex education in school. * Less opportunity for male and female to mingle with each other. * No knowledge about human sex. * Geographical reasons. * The food habits. * Wild fantasy from mental contrast. * Addiction to alcohol/narcotics * Lack of Civic sense * Ignorance of law. Some incidents are quoted below to help the reader to analyse the cause behind the act. 1) A foreign woman was walking from KSRTC stand to central junction Kottayam, a distance of about 200 meters. During this few minutes in ope...

This question is not to the people of the state but to the political parties who are ruling the state one after the other for over seven decades. In order to manipulate a negative answer to this they cannot come up with dearth of fund, shortage of staff, delay in getting sanction from the central government or any such impediments. What stops them from taking a step towards this? The only reason what the people can find to this is that almost all political parties have their own contributions to commit crimes either directly or indirectly. In other words they are the ones who organise crimes and maintain criminals. Despite having one of the most efficient police forces of the country the successive governments do not take effective steps to reap their efficiency to check crime. According to figures compiled by NCRB till 2010 Kerala has a crime rate of 424.1 whereas the national average is 187.6. In the case of cities Kochi stands on top at 1879.8 against the national average of 341.9....

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...