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July 9th, 2008
One of the news items that caught my attention today was from Deepika newspaper. This newspaper is junk, but I monitor their online edition to see what they are cooking. Here is the gist of the story that caught my attention,
A group of well educated adults was arrested on immorality charges from a Kollam resort [...]
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June 20th, 2008
Whenever I read Malayalam newspaper in the morning, I usually end up laughing uncontrollably. Then my wife comes and catches me by my ear turning my laughter into a cry. She is worried that our neighbors will think that I am insane (I am sure some of the readers of this blog are ready to [...]
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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 30th, 2008
An agitation by advocates in Trivandrum is now in "hot" stage. They are demanding a high court bench in Trivandrum. A lot of unions/organizations have expressed their solidarity with lawyers and is very happy to fuel the agitation. Every one says that "common man" in Trivandrum need a high court. But my question is [...]
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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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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 6th, 2007
Kerala Police has recently started a campaign to improve their image among the public. As part of this campaign, movies on policing is being screened at Trivandrum (Chandrasekharan nair stadium) from April 18 to 21. Various events are planned at the venue and entry is free for the general public.
With the rise of organised gangs [...]
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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 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 20th, 2007
As per Supreme court directives, Kerala Government has decided to make marriage certificates mandatory for all. It will be applicable for all religions. So the so called “uniform civil code” is coming through the backdoor slowly and steadily. Bihar is the only other state where marriage registration is mandatory.
I wonder why the law was not [...]
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