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February 16th, 2010
Indian government and Kerala government are creating more and more laws under the assumption that it will lead to a better life for the common man. However, in reality more laws means more power to the corrupt police officers and usually means more corruption. Instead of solving problems more laws are creating more problems in [...]
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February 25th, 2009
Criminal assault (also called as ragging) is common in professional colleges in Kerala. It has reached such a scary situation that some think that they can get away with rape under the disguise of ragging. Many people suffer horrible abuse at the hands of these criminals. These criminals know that they can easily get away under the [...]
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December 25th, 2008
Yesterday a large group of vandals (members of the Palayam DYFI area committee) attacked Cafe Coffee Day shop on the Vellayambalam-Kowdiar stretch. They attacked customers including women and partially destroyed the hotel complex. Police just watched as the mob over 100 people went on beating customers and employees of Cafe Coffee Day. They also damaged [...]
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November 9th, 2008
Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan declared Cheriyanad Panchayat as the first litigation controlled Panchayat on saturday. The Pachayat at Cheriyanad has setup local level committee to facilitate out of the court settlements whenever disputes arise in the village. The committee was very successful in minimizing the litigations from the Panchayat disposing over 400 [...]
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August 30th, 2008
Big media corporations around the world are a big threat to human freedom and free flow of information. These corporations twist and create fake news and scary news to influence public opinion to serve their own interests. Malayala Manorama from Kerala is no exception. Recently they have started a sensational article series called "blue truth" [...]
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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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