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Archive for October, 2007

Roads from around the world - and the winner is?

Roads in Dubai

Roads in Germany

Roads in Riyadh

Roads in Singapore

Roads in Oman

and finally Roads in God’s Own Country - Kerala

Sakkariya on the current political and social situation in Kerala

There are many writers and thinkers in Kerala. But most of them behave like pet dogs of political parties. Sakkariya is an exception and hence I am a big fan of him.
In the following speech (dubai indian consulate, october 18), Sakkariya looks at the political and social situation in Kerala. Some of his key points [...]

Criminals in Kerala - how malayalees treat women (edappal incident)

One of the interesting(?) aspects of life in Kerala is the way society treats its women folk. We are probably one of the worst educated societies in the world which treats women like commodity. The work “charak (commodity)” is a common word among men (even in colleges and schools) used to describe woman.
Here is another [...]

Killer roads in Kerala

Over last few weeks, atleast 20 people died just due to bad condition of roads in Kerala. Whenever a decision is made to cut a tree to widen a road, you might see a huge army of “intellectuals” protesting against it. But when people die just because roads are not repaired, no one bothers. The [...]