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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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June 26th, 2008
In the last post I looked at the "controversial religious" section on the textbook and commented that there is no "communist ideology" in it. It seemed pretty good material.
Yesterday I was going through the entire textbook and noticed that in fact very cleverly some ideas and perceptions are injected using the book. What we [...]
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June 22nd, 2008
When it comes to road infrastructure, Kerala is lagging behind other states. Marxist party was opposing the national highway expansion program since they were against toll collection on the highways. As usual common sense came 2 years later and they mysteriously changed their stance and said tolls are good for the people. So after a [...]
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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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May 10th, 2008
In an idiotic move, Kerala government completely banned private bus services in nationalized routes from today. Earlier private buses were allowed to run up to 10KM through nationalized routes. Now not even an inch through the nationalized routes are allowed and that means they can’t even cross them.
This move will surely bring untold misery to [...]
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May 8th, 2008
Our first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was a good person. But as a prime minister he was an utter failure. His concept of idiotic “socialism” is the primary reason why it took almost 40 years for us to bring liberalisation. For him, the word “profit” was devil and millions of Indians suffered in poverty due [...]
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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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April 19th, 2008
Village offices in Kerala are well known for corruption. A number of certificates are issued from village offices (income certificate, nativity certificate etc.) and invariably bribe is required to get them. Some may argue that you can still get the certificates without bribe, but that will require 3 or more village office visits!
Historically village officers [...]
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March 28th, 2008
Yesterday in a shocking and tragic accident, 7 people died on the spot when they were hit by a lorry on the road. Over 30 people had suffered injuries and are in hospital. In retaliation, congress activists destroyed the lorry and the lorry driver was taken into police custody. It appears that he was not [...]
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March 15th, 2008
In Kerala, nowadays almost every one has a mobile phone. There are "life time prepaid services" which requires a very small amount to keep a mobile connection with free incoming call support. Hence even school children has got their own mobiles.
Like any other new service, this convenience comes with a lot of problems. Internet [...]
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March 14th, 2008
According to the latest report by accounts general, Kerala’s total debt is now over fifty thousand crore rupees! The increase in debt was about 2500 crores just in last 8 months! This is now a ticking bomb, which if not addressed quickly will spiral into total disaster..
Think about this - there will not be more [...]
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March 12th, 2008
All the hell has broken loose when Kerala high court said that manslaughter is a popular sport in Kannur. High court also pointed out the politicisation of Kerala police in Kannur. Even idiots in Kerala knows that what high court judge said is 100% true!
I am no fan of BJP (think about Gujarat massacre), [...]
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