Normal And Abnormal

 We  shall have a quick journey through the capital cities of some selected countries. London Washington DC Moscow Ottawa Paris Tokyo Berlin Canberra Madrid Beijing New Delhi K V George

Sometimes back someone said about Kerala - God's own country. We Malayalees just repeat it. Even our own country men from other states do not know much about it. Domestic tourist arrival in Kerala during 2018 was 1.6 cr. During the same period domestic tourists visited Tamil Nadu was 49.5 cr and UP 53.6 cr. We may have umpteen reasons to justify the low inflow. The highest earning countries from tourism in 2019 are: USA -$193.3 billion(Rs14.4 lakh cr) Spain - $79.7 bn (Rs 5.9 lakh cr) France - $63.5 bn (Rs 4.8 lakh cr) Kerala - Rs 45,010.69 cr Significant difference in the above figures reveals our failure in marketing our tourism potential to the world. When we are placed in the must visit tourist destination in  the world (8th in the list), we could not make it known to the world. We ourselves should have a relook to our tourism sector. We have almost every ingredient a tourist want to see. We have good numbe...

Having lived in Changanacherry for a good amount of time, especially in my younger days, I have very sweet memories about my good old town, shops, market and every inch of the roads. Now we may go through some old images of Changanacherry. Market Junction Market road shops Boat jetty Anchu vilakku Five lamps Installed in the market in 1905. This is the place in the market where Veluthampy Dalava opened the largest market of Kerala in 1805. Vazhappally Maha Siva Temple, Anchu vilakku Vandippetta, SB College, Metropolitan Church, NSS Headquarters main gate & Boat jetty Courtesy: Web sources K V George

(Finance Minister John Mathai presents the first budget of India on 28 February 1950. Image courtesy, Mint) Every political party while assuming power to rule, announce a set of offers for the people. Sometimes in course of time both the parties as well as the people forget these big offers and surprisingly no one is brother about these great offers. In fact after every election if one make a list of offers given and what are achieved against each offer always find wide gap. Instead of giving such unattainable offers, why not each government record the existing pci while assuming power and every year while presenting the annual budget, the past year's and the current year's pci may announced. This will help the people to truly evaluate the performance of the ruling government. This may be taken as a challenge by the people as well as by each government representing different political parties. K V George  

Kerala is on a Red Alert! The situation is getting worsen every passing day. According to Kerala Police Crime Records, 5586 narcotics cases in 2021 and 8124 cases 2022 have been registered under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985. These must be about a gram in a Ton only. The real inflow of narcotics may be much larger than what is estimated. The number of users are getting increased day by day. Young school children are being converted into regular narcotics users. The parents of the children should be aware of this dangerous situation and become more cautious. The police and excise departments should be more vigilant. The parents of the children, the teachers and management of the schools should be more watchful to deal with the situation, or else these children may be lost for ever.  The states reporting highest charge-sheet crimes under IPC crimes in India in 2022 are: 1) Gujarat - 97.1%, 2) Kerala - 94.9%.  This is the criminal growth of Kera...

    The young billionaires - Stancy        Tang, Austin Russel and Andy          Fang There  are people who put all out efforts to earn wealth right through their lives but most of them fail to reach the goal and go behind the curtain. But there are some very fortunate people who become billionaires at very young age. We will now see some of those lucky rich. Kevin David Lehmann  Kevin David Lehmann is the youngest billionaire in the world. He is 18 years old and his net worth is $3.3 billion. The prime source of his income is Drugstore. According to the report by Forbes 50% stake of Germany's leading drugstore chain drogerie markt (dm) which brings in over $12 billion annual revenue is his prime earning source. Lehmann's father transferred ownership of his 50% stake in dm to Kevin David in 2017. Austin Russel Austin Russel founded automotive sensor firm Luminar Technologies. He became the youngest billionaire ...

The High Court of Kerala has recently made an observation, "Boys must know that they should not touch a girl/woman without her explicit consent." What forced the honourable judiciary to make this comment is nothing but the result of the utter failure of our educational system. We must have set a school curriculum that should have the prime target to instill virtues and values in students. Today's students will be tomorrow's citizens. They are the ones to steer the nation to a destination of peace, harmony, discipline, respect to each other and to the extreme comfort of all the people. On the other hand we have allowed stinking politics to rule out the age old civilization our great nation. Until and unless we throw away this politics into waste bins this country cannot come up the way it is capable of. K V George