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Archive for December, 2008

Terror attack on Cafe Coffee Day at Trivandrum

Yesterday a large group of vandals (members of the Palayam DYFI area committee) attacked Cafe Coffee Day shop on the Vellayambalam-Kowdiar stretch. They attacked customers including women and partially destroyed the hotel complex. Police just watched as the mob over 100 people went on beating customers and employees of Cafe Coffee Day.  They also damaged [...]

Free Software in Kerala - exposing double standards

Just few days back I wrote why free software enthusiasts should be ashamed of the immature protest they did at the National Free Software conference held at CUSAT in Cochin. They went on to do things that clearly was criminal in nature. Police had to be called in to throw them out. What was the [...]

Free Software Free Society International Conference in Trivandrum

Kerala Government and Free software community is organizing a 3 day conference on open source free software movement in Trivandrum, Kerala. The conference is organized at the Mascot hotel during 9-11 December and there is also an exhibition named “Freedom Expo 2008″ at the Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds. The highlight of the event is the participation [...]

Politicians - are they super citizens?

In yet another display of political arrogance, two MPs from Kerala caused flight delay at Delhi International Airport. According to reports they refused to change the flight when the original flight developed a technical snag. They also decided to go on a “dharna” inside the faulty aircraft!!  The drama caused additional delay and finally the [...]

Shame of Kerala - Achuthanandan insults sandeep’s father

Do you know what happens when we elect an uneducated person as our chief minister? Well, here you have,
“He (Sandeep’s father) says that the Kerala chief minister did not come whereas the Karnataka chief minister came in the morning itself…and that Kerala has ignored him. He got all worked up over this,” Achuthanandan told ‘Times [...]

Corruption and Terrorism

I have been watching people on TV giving their opinion on how to tackle terrorism in India. Everyone wants increased security and wants more money and people for coast guard, NSG etc. etc.  Some have even gone to the extend of supporting suspension of individual freedom!! Not surprisingly politicians are at the receiving and frankly [...]

Russian song in Malayalam

Check out this hilarious Malayalam interpretation of a Russian folk song. The song is played by Ivan Kupala music group.  This is a kind of “reverse Buffalax” where putting Malayalam subtitles on a Russian folk song makes it more meaningful! Enjoy..