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November 4th, 2008
V.K. Mathews started IBS (International Business Services Group) in 1997 and over years the company has grown to one of the leading IT companies based in Kerala. IBS employs over 2000 people and most of them are from Kerala.
Now we all Malayalees know what will happen when you start a factory or a business in [...]
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November 2nd, 2008
In Malayalam we have interesting and intelligent proverbs (“Pazhanchollukal”). Probably the most used proverb these days is,
“Kaala pettennu kettappol kayareduthu”
It is very difficult to translate it. It is something like “He made necessary arrangements when he heard his bull has delivered a baby”. Kerala government is adopting the same approach when they ordered the Labour [...]
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October 11th, 2008
It appears that United States and rest of the world is heading towards a long and painful economic recession. It has caused the bankruptcy of a country (Iceland) and even capitalists are nationalizing banks to protect investors and bank customers! The most affected areas of this recession seems to be banking, finance, insurance and IT [...]
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August 31st, 2008
On 4th September 2008, Chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate the commencement of 3 phase expansion of Technopark in Trivandrum. This will involve creation of various infrastructure for companies and construction of an internal ring road in the Technopark campus. Various software campuses of companies such as UST Gobal and Infosys is being constructed as [...]
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June 5th, 2008
I have been a strong advocate of privatization and I have written many posts before on why we need strong competition in the market to ensure consumer protection. But unfortunately even at this early stage, private companies are displaying such greed that I am getting skeptical now. In a country like India where people look [...]
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May 15th, 2008
Forming associations/unions to fight “competition” is nothing new Kerala. The latest “association” to take that route is All Kerala cable tv operator’s association. According to them the cable tv space is being taken over by “kuthakakal” (monopolies) and they are going to fight it.
They are planning a dharna on 22nd May at Ernakulam. A [...]
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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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March 14th, 2008
UAE based retail giant, Lulu is planning to open a huge mall in Cochin very soon. The proposed mall will have a retail space of 1.2 million square feet. Lulu has plans to start hypermarkets and supermarkets in most of the major indian cities.
Lulu is part of EMKE group and is owned by [...]
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June 25th, 2007
Indian Express reports about the state of the “secret pact” made between Kerala traders and Moserbaer. What is interesting to note is that it is the KVVES members who are violating the ’secret pact’.
KOZHIKODE: The video library owners in the state, who went up in arms against Moser Baer, nw find its entry an easy [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Kerala Vyapari Vyavasai Ekopana Samiti has started the latest agitation against people of Kerala. From yesterday they have stopped selling cigarettes saying that they need more margin on the sale. The interview with their chairman is always entertaining. He says that traders are not getting any profit!
Yeah, right! Traders are doing business to improve people’s [...]
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March 14th, 2007
“Mundu” is the traditional dress used by men in Kerala. But unfortunately the word “Mundu” was trademarked by Geodesic company recently!
Mundu Messenger enables real-time collaboration between trusted lists of IM contacts across public IM Networks on the Web, Desktop and Mobile phone.
Nooooooo! Now we cannot use “Mundu” without putting “TM” near it!
Bloggers, [...]
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March 12th, 2007
In an interesting article, P V Venugopal looks at the decline and fall of Kerala Coconut,
To return to the woman who could pull down a couple of coconuts to buy the bare essentials for the family, and her husband who could indulge in the mild intoxication of toddy by bartering a few coconuts, why is [...]
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March 11th, 2007
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 [...]
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February 22nd, 2007
Last year Kerala passport offices have issued a total of 600,000+ passports! Average daily applications in a single office is over 700! (Kerala has a total of 4 passport offices – Kozhikkode, Malappuram, Thiruvananthapuram and Ernakulam).
No wonder! There is hardly any new job generation in Kerala. On top of it almost every day a hartal [...]
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February 16th, 2007
Kerala’s IT park (Technopark) will become the largest IT park in India when the new building Thejaswini is inaugurated. Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the building on February 22. Operations in Thejaswini are expected to start soon. Thejaswini has 12 floors and a total built up area of over 600,000 square feet. [...]
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