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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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September 8th, 2007
If you visit places in central Kerala (Idukki for example), you will find an interesting social phenomenon. A lot of young students are studying nursing in Kerala or outside kerala. In fact, it is very difficult to get train tickets on sleeper compartments which goes to bangalore or mumbai. Trains are swarmed by nursing students [...]
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August 15th, 2007
If you have just seen the title alone, you would be wondering “what the heck is that”? Ok. Without further suspense refer the following news,
Thiruvananthapuram, July 2 (IANS) Angry youths in this Kerala capital Friday burnt an effigy of US President George W. Bush, not because they are anti-American but because he has named his [...]
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July 22nd, 2007
It is estimated that one rupee out of four circulating in Kerala is made by Malayalees working outside the state. The mindset is etched so deep in a Malayali that he looks for jobs outside (gulf, north india, chennai, Us etc.) immediately after the education. This also means that not many care about any job [...]
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July 7th, 2007
Jesse points out to this detailed set of instructions he found in a Kovalam hotel. Instructions are backed up with illustrations to show how you can use traditional Indian toilet. We can probably think of starting a “indian toilet corporation” as a subsidiary to tourism department. Then politicians can take up the top positions in [...]
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July 7th, 2007
Neel points out the benefits of organized retail,
Just a few days back, I managed a visit to Reliance Fresh and found that the prices there were comparable and sometimes lower than the “market” prices. Businessworld, this week, also carries a piece on “Green Evolution” - a must read.
Embezzling, fraud, siphoning money from cooperative banks have [...]
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July 4th, 2007
An entire family was wiped out due to the tragic accident that happened on the national highway near Alappuzha this saturday. Joseph Lawrence, his wife Sunitha, and daughters Sanchana and Sreya(8 months) had died when their car hit a mini bus.
The accident was caused by potholes on the national highway, which poses big danger especially [...]
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June 30th, 2007
Here is a “shocking” news pointed out by kuttan. Please note that “shocking” is for the people outside Kerala.
The latest example in this cases is Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samiti’s protest against the entry of retail chains in Kerala. For quite while they had Kerala consumers as captives for their lack of choice. Now [...]
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June 29th, 2007
Joseph Thomas writes on the thampanoor boat stop,
First I thought its the people who travel in that car got out to push it. But I was wrong. A friend tells me that there are a group of people waiting for ‘customers’ who get their cars stuck in the middle of the road so that they [...]
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June 29th, 2007
The following photo is taken at fuel station in Vellayambalam, Trivandrum owned by Kerala’s civil supplies department. The red board is a bit difficult to read, since I had to take the photo very discretely. You see, I don’t want to get beaten up!
The board says - “FREE AIR - It is illegal to pay [...]
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June 29th, 2007
Kerala is unique in one respect. Whether you do anything good or bad there will be a lot of people to opposite it. For example, consider the case of making helmets mandatory. Helmets were made mandatory because lot of bike riders were dying due to head injury. But then some people prefer to die.
Following picture [...]
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June 27th, 2007
Vinod gets it right when he says,
It does subscribe to the tactics of a monopoly: Disruption of serv1ces to arm twist the government, using the same tactics on their suppliers, but I have no idea what the outcome was. They have used tactics of shutdowns to protest legal crackdowns on their own.
I am talking about [...]
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June 25th, 2007
A Kerala based NGO, Biotech won the Ashden award for food security (30,000 british pounds). Check the award page for more details on Biotech work. The complete biotech report can be downloaded here(PDF).
BIOTECH is an NGO based in Kerala, South India, which has developed biogas digesters for managing food waste and other organic waste [...]
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June 14th, 2007
Kerala electricity board is another government department which is consistently on loss. But that doesn’t prevent them paying the maximum salary for its employees. In fact, it is highest paymaster in Kerala government.
Now they have found a way to extract more money from electricity consumers. Charge a hefty additional caution deposit from everyone. You would [...]
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June 14th, 2007
Recently in a tragic event, a ticketless passenger died when he jumped out of the mumbai train to escape from ticket examiners. As usual, media is portraying ticket examiners (TTE) as satans. In this post, I will look at the railway problems from both sides.
First of all, the main problem is that there isn’t enough [...]
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