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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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May 7th, 2007
Kerala Government has introduced a new law which effectively prevents any NRI (non resident indian) from buying land. As per the new law which was implemented in a hurry, to register land in your name, you need to be present at the registration office at the time of registration. Also a photo and fingerprints are [...]
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May 4th, 2007
Welcome to God’s own country. Sexual starvation is so bad in Kerala that anything remotely resembling a woman may get raped anywhere after sunset.
Also check out this story. CPI(M) district secretary goes to the Kannur jail and asks the prison inmate to get dressed! Who has authority in jail? CPI(M) party? People who kills others [...]
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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 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 3rd, 2007
It is already 3 days since lorry strike started in Kerala, paralysing goods traffic including essential commodities. The strike called by the lorry owners is a direct challenge to the rule of law in the state. They were given plenty of time to install speed governors. But after all the talks, the owners were [...]
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March 29th, 2007
Sabarinath Bahuleyan argues why we need to retain section 377 of Indian Penal Code,
Many countries have declared homosexuality legal. But would we repeal Section 377 ? No government would dare to say “yes”. There are a lot of social, religious and above all psychological problems that will crop up if the law is repealed. Let [...]
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March 28th, 2007
Many people in Kerala has a misconception. They think that if something illegal is done, it is ok if it is done by a gang. They think that law has no validity before a majority!
Also many think that they have a born right to disrupt traffic or prevent others from operating their businesses. For example, [...]
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March 24th, 2007
Traditionally Kerala has been a rather peaceful state. There has been some instances of political violence and goonda activities, but overall compared to many other states in India, Kerala is peaceful. You could go around without being killed by a mob.
But things are slowly changing. If incidents in north kerala are of any indication, widespread [...]
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March 19th, 2007
It all started with the Yahoo copyright issue where a number of Malayalam blog posts were copied by Webdunia content team and it appeared on the Yahoo’s Malayalam portal. When this issue was reported, Yahoo promptly removed the content.
But Malayalam bloggers were not satisfied with this. They wanted a formal apology from Yahoo. Hence [...]
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March 18th, 2007
It seems that some youngsters without jobs in Trivandrum decided to go for self employment. Here is a short summary of their modus operandi.
1. Get an old bike on dirt cheap prices. Then change or hide the registration number plate.
2. Get another youngester without job as an accomplice. Only qualification is that the fellow has [...]
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March 17th, 2007
Whenever any new regulation is introduced by government, it invariably leads to corruption. The easiest way to reduce corruption is to reduce permits/approvals etc. required from government departments.
For example, just after thattekkadu tragedy, many government employees started harassing boat owners and started collecting money as bribe.
Kaippally points to the latest government regulation on the [...]
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March 13th, 2007
In Kerala, whenever a bus passes through a busy junction, you will see that a lot of male faces in the junction turn towards the back of the bus (or front if the bus is a private bus). What are they looking for? They are doing something called “visual rape”. They are looking for women [...]
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March 12th, 2007
There are many groups operating in Kerala which calls for a ban on Capital punishment. For example, some nutcases were protesting against the Afzal judgment near secretariate in Trivandrum. Supreme court doesn’t give someone capital punishment just for fun. There are valid reasons for awarding capital punishment and I strongly feel that it is needed [...]
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