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Kerala bans drinking water

Kerala has decided to ban drinking water completely since according to a study, 99% of the water is contaminated. In order to protect its citizens from harm, government decided to completely ban drinking water, citing health reasons.
Ok. Ok. Drinking water is not yet banned. Unlike banning pepsi/coke, banning drinking water may not get clapping from [...]

What is a global village?

Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam is the project manager of the Niligris-Wynaad Tribal Welfare Society, a small NGO based on the borders of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Southern India. Emmanuel and his small and dedicated staff provide basic health care, education and support to four different tribal groups in the region.
In the following video (2.5mins), [...]

The mosquito terminator from Kerala

E.M. George was an ace ISRO scientist in Trivandrum. But then he found an area which required his urgent attention - mosquito control! He quit his job to become the “mosquito terminator”!
After years of study, he has developed something called “GEM Technology” which is a method for fighting mosquitos. I think the term “GEM [...]

On the importance of medical tourism

There is a huge difference between US and India when it comes to medical costs. In India, Kerala has unique leverage due to its expertise in the medical field. What is costly to us is damn cheap for europeans or americans!
Check out this post by Beverly A. Jensen which provides insight into this untapped market!
The [...]

Homosexuality and the section 377 of IPC

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 There are a lot of social, religious and above all psychological problems that will crop up if the law is repealed.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 [...]

World’s first - Liquor consumers welfare association in Kerala

One of the most unique things about Kerala is the abundance of association/unions etc. For anything and everything there is either an association or a union! So it was only waiting to happen…
Some guys in Kollam has setup a new association for boozers. The idea is to promote alcohol drinking(!) and help drinkers with financial [...]

Mohanlal in trouble over liquor ad

In a commercial Mohanlal asks - “What’s up this evening?”. He never would have thought that this would land him in such deep trouble. But hey, that is the special treatment kerala gives. It is inhabited by dangerous enviornment activists, moral police, lethal animal rights activists and stupid NGOs.
An NGO has decided to harass Mohanlal’s [...]

Sreemathi teacher’s visit to medical college hospital

Kerala health minister Sreemathi teacher didn’t expect that things are so bad in Medical college. When she went for a surprise inspection, she found that most of the senior doctors and paramedical staff were missing! Only one group was in plenty - Poor Patients…
Trivandrum medical college is one place where even the wheel chairs demand [...]