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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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August 10th, 2009
Marxist party has been fighting self financing colleges for a long time. According to them, self financing college is an evil. Unfortunately all that changed once LDF came in power. Since LDF came to power, a lot of self financing colleges were started all around Kerala. Here is a break up of colleges allotted by [...]
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June 5th, 2009
Today is “world environment day” and it is celebrated to create awareness of environmental issues. Kerala celebrated this day by planting couple of trees in schools and organizing meetings across the state. Some also think that having a “census of trees”would help in protecting the environment. Unfortunately many of the suggestions put forward by environmentalists are [...]
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June 1st, 2009
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is one of the most inefficient and useless departments. Over years this department has been roting steadily. Instead of improving power situation and improving their service, they are looking for cheap popularity stunts such as million CFL campaign. Instead of increasing power production, they are asking people to switch of [...]
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April 3rd, 2009
Resurvey of land in Kerala is probably the biggest running task (the most inefficient one also) undertaken by Government of Kerala. It is running since 1966 and yet the end is nowhere in sight. Funnier is the fact that since it is running for over 40 years, most of the information is completely out of [...]
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December 1st, 2008
I have been watching people on TV giving their opinion on how to tackle terrorism in India. Everyone wants increased security and wants more money and people for coast guard, NSG etc. etc. Some have even gone to the extend of supporting suspension of individual freedom!! Not surprisingly politicians are at the receiving and frankly [...]
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November 5th, 2008
Whenever our local fish seller used to come to our colony, we could see an army of house flies converging on his bike. But recently something strange happened. I could no longer see any army of houseflies. They are still there in and around the house, but they seem scared to touch the fish! [...]
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October 12th, 2008
Earlier (1999) Railways had planned to construct a 45KM new railway line from Kottayam to Erumeli. After stiff resistance from environmental and farmer groups, this project was dropped. Then another project was proposed which will link Angamaly to Azhutha (120+ KM line). This project was called the “Sabari” project as it would link the pilgrim [...]
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October 10th, 2008
From yesterday, contract security guards at Trivandrum medical college went on a lightning strike. They also created law and order problems in and around medical college. They are demanding the withdrawal of suspension of some of their colleagues.
Now you may be wondering why I am writing about such a common event (strikes) in Kerala. [...]
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October 8th, 2008
It is now pretty clear that Kerala is heading for a disastrous power crisis. The current power generation from hydro electric projects is about 20 million units while the consumption is double the production at 40 million units. The deficit electricity is bought from other states at a rate of over 9 rupees per unit. [...]
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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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August 7th, 2008
In order to squeeze the last bit of money and to torture its customers, Indian Railways is taking a number of steps. In this post I will point out two of such nonsense steps. I don’t know who gets such idiotic ideas, but anyway for passengers it is going to be a lot of hassle.
1. Advertising through [...]
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August 3rd, 2008
News : All Kerala Federation of Petroleum Dealers had earlier declared that they won’t sell petrol below 1 litre and it is already enforced in Kerala. No one cares that such a decision is illegal. Now they have said that petrol pumps won’t open on sunday and on working days they will operate only from [...]
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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 29th, 2008
It may give intense pleasure to those who are living outside Kerala to know that our beloved Kerala State Electricity Board has started 30 minute power cuts for everyone. This is affectionately called as load shedding. The monsoon god seems angry with Kerala and this year we may see power cuts for a few [...]
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