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June 17th, 2009
In Trivandrum edition of newspapers, the goonda menace is always in the front page of the “city edition”. There are high tech goondas who has nothing to fear from police (since they pay well) and then there are politically connected goondas who has good political protection. Due to lack of political will and lack of [...]
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April 27th, 2008
Kenney Jacob writes about the nonsense articles published by mainstream magazines in Kerala (specifically Vanitha from Malayala Manorama),
Vanitha dont have the moral right to speak about the harm caused by phones or the internet, cos they are the part of a Malayala Manorama group, which owns another “M” publication which publishes all sorts of tingling [...]
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January 13th, 2008
I have written many times on the lack of consumer choice in Kerala. The only hope is the arrival of new retail chains. In Kerala, Trivandrum is especially hostile to consumers. Most of the shopkeepers are behaving like they are running some kind of charity shop for consumers.
Check out an interesting experience of Mr. Santhosh [...]
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December 18th, 2007
I was laughing on the floor for hours and then I realized I am laughing at our own grave. I am talking about this post by Vinod.
With all things LDF, it is happening so fast: If LDF were God, pregnant women in Kerala would remain pregnant for more than 2 years.
Unfortunately, people who are supposed [...]
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December 18th, 2007
Today I came across Tan Wee Cheng’s blog post on his Kerala visit. It is pretty long, but is quite insightful as well
History has shown that any move to retard progress and efficiency would surely fail and bring more suffering when the axe eventually falls. Remember the English weavers who burned down new [...]
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September 19th, 2007
Kuttan writes about the “retards on prowl” in Kerala,
Allowing boys and girls in school to sit on the same bench while writing their exams could cause “breakdown of morality” leading to “total sexual anarchy”. That’s not from a Taliban missive. That’s the pivot for a statewide agitation being planned by the student arm of Kerala’s [...]
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July 27th, 2007
Want more visitors to your blog? Here is a feature on Kerala Tips which will give you more visitors. I have started a Kerala Blog Directory, which will list categorized blogs on Kerala. You can submit your own blog with detailed description.
Kerala Tips is currently having 1000 visitors per day and by adding your blog [...]
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July 22nd, 2007
Amar C. Bakshi of washingtonpost is currently running a series called “how the world see america”. The recent posts by him are based on Kerala. He seems to have met all the “wrong guys” in Kerala. I am not disputing the truth of what he has written. He is spot on with his article on [...]
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July 12th, 2007
Shijaz writes about his experience on the Malayalam language pack for Windows XP,
So I dared to download the Windows XP interface pack of my native language, Malayalam from the Microsoft website. Very interesting to note that even the download page was written in Malayalam. Too excited to read, I went ahead, downloaded and installed it.
He [...]
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July 7th, 2007
Neel points out the benefits of organized retail,
Just a few days back, I managed a visit to Reliance Fresh and found that the prices there were comparable and sometimes lower than the “market” prices. Businessworld, this week, also carries a piece on “Green Evolution” – a must read.
Embezzling, fraud, siphoning money from cooperative banks have [...]
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June 29th, 2007
Joseph Thomas writes on the thampanoor boat stop,
First I thought its the people who travel in that car got out to push it. But I was wrong. A friend tells me that there are a group of people waiting for ‘customers’ who get their cars stuck in the middle of the road so that they [...]
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June 27th, 2007
Vinod gets it right when he says,
It does subscribe to the tactics of a monopoly: Disruption of serv1ces to arm twist the government, using the same tactics on their suppliers, but I have no idea what the outcome was. They have used tactics of shutdowns to protest legal crackdowns on their own.
I am talking about [...]
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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 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 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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