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April 30th, 2007
Surendar has created an excellent photo album on Thrissur pooram 2007,
Thrissur Pooram is the most colourful temple festival of Kerala, south India.It is a festival of light, colour, percussion and elephants.
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April 30th, 2007
Thrissur pooram is a must visit event for a lot of malayalees around Thrissur. But this time, it was not well received as the previous poorams due to many reasons - “delay between fireworks”, “fireworks were no loud enough” and “elephant stampede”. Here are some of the videos I found on the pooram festival.
1. Elephant [...]
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April 30th, 2007
E.M. George was an ace ISRO scientist in Trivandrum. But then he found an area which required his urgent attention - mosquito control! He quit his job to become the “mosquito terminator”!
After years of study, he has developed something called “GEM Technology” which is a method for fighting mosquitos. I think the term “GEM [...]
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April 24th, 2007
Kerala is one of the few states in India where almost all the train passengers pay for their ticket! Yet again and again central government ignores Kerala when it comes to allocation of new trains. It is a real torture to travel on one of the day trains such as “Malabar express” or “Parasuram [...]
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April 24th, 2007
Abraham Menacherry shares an interesting conversation he heard on the train,
My friend is ecstatic. He tells me, I am going to get married dude, MARRIED!! Wait till I break the news to that bugger buddie2 (name changed!), he is going to be dead jealous now.
I: You haven’t seen the girl!! What if you don’t like [...]
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April 24th, 2007
According to this report, Kerala provided employment to 78,000 households in 2006-07 under the NREGA act.
Up to February,07, 83 thousand households demanded employment and out of them 78 thousand households were provided employment in the State. The average number of households provided employment in a district of the State is 38,871 while the national [...]
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April 21st, 2007
Maya kannadi says,
The driving principle in Kerala is this: If you are unhappy, then everyone else should also be unhappy.
It is sad that the so called “intellectuals” in Kerala are busy organizing protest marches against power projects and other development projects.
Here is my proposal. Kerala faces acute power shortage. So if anyone wants to oppose [...]
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April 21st, 2007
Recently Kerala chief minister achuthanandan made a statement that only 30% of government employees actually do any work! It is very funny since saying that is like saying “today I found out that sky is blue! hurray!!”. Another thing to note here is that majority of people who don’t work belong to CPM led unions!
I [...]
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April 19th, 2007
Rock music is quite popular in Kerala. So it is no wonder that new rocks bands are always popping up in Kerala. Avial is a rock band who calls themselves as the “first malayalam alternative experimental band”!
Check out their debut album titled “Nada Nada”. Good Lord! - It is in malayalam and I love it! [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Thenmala damn area is India’s first ecotourism destination. It is located near punalur in Kollam district. To know more about what you can do and see in Thenmala, check out the ecotourism tour itinerary.
Ecotourism is a new concept in tourism. It is a purposeful travel to natural areas to understand the cultural and natural history [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Today I came across this report by Ministry of Women and Child Development (200 page PDF report - 5MB download) on the child abuse situation in India. It would be simplistic to say that the report is alarming. Here are some key findings,
1. Two out of every three children were physically abused.
2. 53%+ children reported [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Kerala Vyapari Vyavasai Ekopana Samiti has started the latest agitation against people of Kerala. From yesterday they have stopped selling cigarettes saying that they need more margin on the sale. The interview with their chairman is always entertaining. He says that traders are not getting any profit!
Yeah, right! Traders are doing business to improve people’s [...]
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April 11th, 2007
Journalist ramasundaram goes back in time and writes about what he saw during Vimochana Samaram. Vimochana samaram (liberation struggle) started in 1958 against the first communist government (led by EMS Namboothiripad). It ended when the Kerala government was dismissed by the central government after a police firing in which 15 people died,
There was a huge [...]
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April 9th, 2007
It is no secret that Superstar reality TV series alone was successful in promoting Amrita TV as a leader among Malayalam TV channels. Now they are trying to squeeze the last bit out of the reality TV series. The latest in this is the “Vanitharathnam“. It is a reality show to find the perfect mother [...]
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April 9th, 2007
Nowadays almost on a daily basis, you can see newspaper reports of elephants going mad and killing its mahout. Some think that this happens because elephant is an aggressive animal. The truth is just opposite. Elephant is one of the most peaceful animals you can find. Then why all these tragedies?
The tragedy is that elephants [...]
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