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May 8th, 2008
Our first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was a good person. But as a prime minister he was an utter failure. His concept of idiotic “socialism” is the primary reason why it took almost 40 years for us to bring liberalisation. For him, the word “profit” was devil and millions of Indians suffered in poverty due [...]
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April 20th, 2008
Criminals from DYFI and biggest Kerala mafia (Vyapari Vyvasayi association) ransacked the new Reliance retail shop scheduled to open today at Paravur. They destroyed property and poured oil on the building. Interestingly police never came to the spot and no one was arrested even after the violence.
Please note that the people behind this criminal activity [...]
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April 19th, 2008
Village offices in Kerala are well known for corruption. A number of certificates are issued from village offices (income certificate, nativity certificate etc.) and invariably bribe is required to get them. Some may argue that you can still get the certificates without bribe, but that will require 3 or more village office visits!
Historically village officers [...]
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April 12th, 2008
Today there was an interesting news item which caught my attention. The agents who facilitate bribe at the RTO offices in Kerala has a union and a minister (Mons Joseph) is going to inaugurate their annual meeting! If you don’t believe me, check out the news item below. Click for a larger version.
As I [...]
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March 15th, 2008
In Kerala, nowadays almost every one has a mobile phone. There are "life time prepaid services" which requires a very small amount to keep a mobile connection with free incoming call support. Hence even school children has got their own mobiles.
Like any other new service, this convenience comes with a lot of problems. Internet [...]
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December 20th, 2007
Today there was interesting phenomenon in Trivandrum city. Almost all the computer shops had their shutters half closed! Reason? News leaked out that Microsoft and police is conducting raids to find out usage of pirated software!
It turned out to be a raid against select software companies not hardware vendors. So by afternoon most of the [...]
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December 18th, 2007
I think if there is one thing that will destroy us as a society, it is going to be politicians. They are one category to whom no law seems to apply. For example, the goonda act recently passed by our "beloved" politicians exempt "politicians" from the goonda list. How convenient!
Consider the recent criminal acts [...]
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November 28th, 2007
Malayalees are crazy when it comes to Gold. If you watch TV ads, after a while you will think gold is essential for the survival of a Malayalee. Media and gold companies find new ways to make malayalees buy gold, such as declaring a day as the auspicious day for buying gold!
It is also an [...]
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October 8th, 2007
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 [...]
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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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June 30th, 2007
Here is a “shocking” news pointed out by kuttan. Please note that “shocking” is for the people outside Kerala.
The latest example in this cases is Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samiti’s protest against the entry of retail chains in Kerala. For quite while they had Kerala consumers as captives for their lack of choice. Now [...]
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June 2nd, 2007
In Kerala, “Law” is redefined from June 1st, 2007 as the following.
“Law” is a set of rules applicable only for the rich people. For poor/middle class people, law doesn’t apply. For example, suppose you want to encroach government land or government property. The first thing you need to make sure is that you are a [...]
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May 26th, 2007
If everything goes as expected, on monday we may see some ugly scenes in Ernakulam. Traders on the M. G. road is challenging Kerala government and openly said that they would use *force* against any government action!
It may seem rather funny that a set of traders are courageous enough to challenge democratically elected government. It [...]
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May 24th, 2007
For the last two days, Malayala Manorama has been running a feature on Trivandrum passport office. The report says that it is a den of corrupt officials. As if it is new news!
Over the years passport fees has been increasing exponentially. At the same time service at trivandrum passport is steadily declining. In fact, if [...]
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May 23rd, 2007
Kerala government has decided to extend community policing initiative across the state. This initiative was successful in bringing down armed robbery in mainy residential colonies. Like any initiative, this has some problems as well. Sometimes the volunteers take law into their hands and beat up anybody who just happens to be a passerby.
A big problem [...]
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