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July 14th, 2007
Entertainment industry is changing fast in India. Currently there are four major digital TV service providers in Kerala. In this post, I will briefly look at each of them. All these are known as Direct to home (DTH) providers except Asianet digital who uses their cable network infrastructure.
Satellite TV offers unbelievable picture clarity and stereo [...]
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June 2nd, 2007
In Kerala, “Law” is redefined from June 1st, 2007 as the following.
“Law” is a set of rules applicable only for the rich people. For poor/middle class people, law doesn’t apply. For example, suppose you want to encroach government land or government property. The first thing you need to make sure is that you are a [...]
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May 26th, 2007
If everything goes as expected, on monday we may see some ugly scenes in Ernakulam. Traders on the M. G. road is challenging Kerala government and openly said that they would use *force* against any government action!
It may seem rather funny that a set of traders are courageous enough to challenge democratically elected government. It [...]
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May 7th, 2007
Sakkaria is an intelligent man. He is the lone voice against new age moral police and the new age eco-terrorism. Eco-terrorism is the second biggest threat Malayalis face (corruption being the first).
Check out his statement on eco-terrorists.
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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
Maya kannadi says,
The driving principle in Kerala is this: If you are unhappy, then everyone else should also be unhappy.
It is sad that the so called “intellectuals” in Kerala are busy organizing protest marches against power projects and other development projects.
Here is my proposal. Kerala faces acute power shortage. So if anyone wants to oppose [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Kerala Vyapari Vyavasai Ekopana Samiti has started the latest agitation against people of Kerala. From yesterday they have stopped selling cigarettes saying that they need more margin on the sale. The interview with their chairman is always entertaining. He says that traders are not getting any profit!
Yeah, right! Traders are doing business to improve people’s [...]
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March 29th, 2007
Recently I got the following notice delivered at my home. For those who cannot read, here is a brief summary.
“There was a miracle in velankanny church….. any person who prints and distributes 1000 copies of this notice will be blessed…. Someone printed 1000 copies and got Rs. 15 lakhs lottery! Another person didn’t believe this [...]
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March 21st, 2007
According to latest government report, more than 1.15 lakh migrant workers are engaged in various sectors in Kerala!
The irony is that Kerala’s unemployment rate is estimated to be around 20% (that means millions!), highest in India. One reason seems to be that most of the unemployed wants easy jobs and easy money. This high [...]
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March 19th, 2007
It all started with the Yahoo copyright issue where a number of Malayalam blog posts were copied by Webdunia content team and it appeared on the Yahoo’s Malayalam portal. When this issue was reported, Yahoo promptly removed the content.
But Malayalam bloggers were not satisfied with this. They wanted a formal apology from Yahoo. Hence [...]
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March 17th, 2007
Is God nude? To put it in another way, does God need to put on clothes? These are some important questions which has turned Kerala upside down. It is reported that many in Kerala needed trauma care after the following news came out. Many were unable to visualize God without clothes…
It all began when Kerala [...]
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March 13th, 2007
In Kerala, whenever a bus passes through a busy junction, you will see that a lot of male faces in the junction turn towards the back of the bus (or front if the bus is a private bus). What are they looking for? They are doing something called “visual rape”. They are looking for women [...]
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March 11th, 2007
Vinod VV looks at the coca cola ban, trade union militancy and a lot more in his recent post about Kerala,
Assume you want to change granite tiles in your house. What do we do in chennai?
1. Company set up at the wrong place on earth even after knowing that lots of companies got shut [...]
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March 9th, 2007
In 1975, Indira Gandhi declared Emergency rule in India which lasted for 18 months. It was very effective in bringing discipline at the time (for example, government employees used to report at office on time). I think we need something similar declared in Kerala (after imposing President’s rule).
1. Hartal, hartals more hartals - Kerala citizen [...]
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