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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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February 26th, 2008
As part of the SMART Move initiative, motor vehicle department in Kerala has put all the vehicle details and driving license details online. You can access it here. The online facilities include driving license test scheduling details, details about your license application, fancy number availability and registration details of a given vehicle number. These facilities [...]
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February 26th, 2008
Kerala is these days full of hartals, bandhs and other forms of strikes without any particular reason. In fact, most of us don’t even know what a particular hartal or agitation is for! I think one of the primary reasons for this is the “free time” a lot of unemployed in Kerala has. [...]
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January 20th, 2008
India is currently experiencing a power production shortage of 7% and during peak times it goes up to 12%. It is expected that power requirements are going to rapidly increase in the coming years.
Kerala is also no exception. Much of Kerala’s power requirement is satisfied by one of the best hydro electric projects in the [...]
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January 3rd, 2008
Happy New Year to all the readers of Kerala Tips. It has been an exciting year in Kerala and it promises to be much more exciting in 2008.
As a start, from the new year day onwards, Kerala Electricity Board imposed 30 minute power cuts (called affectionately as load shedding) across Kerala. If everything goes well, [...]
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December 20th, 2007
Today 2 news items got my attention. The first one is the new cess Kerala government will be charging from vehicle owners. Yes, you guessed it. It is applicable for both existing and new vehicle owners. Everyone will have to go to the RTO office (the creepy place with all the ugly characters) and pay [...]
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December 18th, 2007
I was laughing on the floor for hours and then I realized I am laughing at our own grave. I am talking about this post by Vinod.
With all things LDF, it is happening so fast: If LDF were God, pregnant women in Kerala would remain pregnant for more than 2 years.
Unfortunately, people who are supposed [...]
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October 22nd, 2007
Roads in Dubai
Roads in Germany
Roads in Riyadh
Roads in Singapore
Roads in Oman
and finally Roads in God’s Own Country - Kerala
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October 21st, 2007
There are many writers and thinkers in Kerala. But most of them behave like pet dogs of political parties. Sakkariya is an exception and hence I am a big fan of him.
In the following speech (dubai indian consulate, october 18), Sakkariya looks at the political and social situation in Kerala. Some of his key points [...]
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October 8th, 2007
One of the interesting(?) aspects of life in Kerala is the way society treats its women folk. We are probably one of the worst educated societies in the world which treats women like commodity. The work “charak (commodity)” is a common word among men (even in colleges and schools) used to describe woman.
Here is another [...]
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October 6th, 2007
Over last few weeks, atleast 20 people died just due to bad condition of roads in Kerala. Whenever a decision is made to cut a tree to widen a road, you might see a huge army of “intellectuals” protesting against it. But when people die just because roads are not repaired, no one bothers. The [...]
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