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January 21st, 2009
Kerala’s capital Trivandrum is slowly becoming a heaven for criminals from other districts. Whenever there is a political, religious or trade union demonstration in Trivandrum, all criminals converge on the capital city and unleash violence. They are pretty sure that police won’t take any action and can continue damaging property and beating up people. Since [...]
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December 25th, 2008
Yesterday a large group of vandals (members of the Palayam DYFI area committee) attacked Cafe Coffee Day shop on the Vellayambalam-Kowdiar stretch. They attacked customers including women and partially destroyed the hotel complex. Police just watched as the mob over 100 people went on beating customers and employees of Cafe Coffee Day. They also damaged [...]
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December 13th, 2008
Just few days back I wrote why free software enthusiasts should be ashamed of the immature protest they did at the National Free Software conference held at CUSAT in Cochin. They went on to do things that clearly was criminal in nature. Police had to be called in to throw them out. What was the [...]
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December 7th, 2008
Kerala Government and Free software community is organizing a 3 day conference on open source free software movement in Trivandrum, Kerala. The conference is organized at the Mascot hotel during 9-11 December and there is also an exhibition named “Freedom Expo 2008″ at the Kanakakkunnu Palace grounds. The highlight of the event is the participation [...]
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November 2nd, 2008
In Malayalam we have interesting and intelligent proverbs (“Pazhanchollukal”). Probably the most used proverb these days is,
“Kaala pettennu kettappol kayareduthu”
It is very difficult to translate it. It is something like “He made necessary arrangements when he heard his bull has delivered a baby”. Kerala government is adopting the same approach when they ordered the Labour [...]
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November 1st, 2008
DC Books is organizing a 12 day DC International book fair & cultural fest at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Trivandrum. Over 300 publishers are participating in the book fair and according to the organizers 10 lakh books on a wide range of topics are available at the fair. As part of the book fair, various [...]
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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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August 31st, 2008
On 4th September 2008, Chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate the commencement of 3 phase expansion of Technopark in Trivandrum. This will involve creation of various infrastructure for companies and construction of an internal ring road in the Technopark campus. Various software campuses of companies such as UST Gobal and Infosys is being constructed as [...]
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June 10th, 2008
At last KSRTC has implemented bus route numbers for city services in Trivandrum. Earlier the bus routes were written only in Malayalam and most of the boards were difficult to read. Also people from outside and tourists had a tough time finding the bus to their destination.
KSRTC operates around 1522 distinct city services. [...]
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May 11th, 2008
Festival of mangoes and honey began at Trivandrum Chandrasekharan Nair stadium from today. It offers a rare chance to see a large variety of (over 150) Indian mangoes and also to taste local honey drink and mango juice. You can also purchase around 10 different types of mangoes at the venue.
I visited the venue [...]
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April 23rd, 2008
Tech a Break is the annual cultural celebration at Technopark Trivandrum. From the official site,
In the pursuit of rejuvenation, fun, frolic and thrill for the IT professionals in the Campus, TECHNOPARK is organizing TECH-A-BREAK 2008, the annual cultural celebration in the month of April 2008. Fun, thrills and excitement fill the campus and the mood [...]
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April 20th, 2008
With a clear lead in SMS votes(40 thousand more than runner up Durga) Najim from Trivadrum today won the Idea Star Singer 2007 competition. He got a brand new flat worth 40 lakhs in cochin from confident group! Runner up Durga got a Ford Fiesta car!
Star singer 2007 took almost a year to complete! [...]
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March 13th, 2008
Kerala’s IT show has started today in Technopark Trivandrum. The event was inaugurated by chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan. For the next three days, Technopark campus is open to general public and an exhibition is also running for the next three days. This event will conclude on 15th March. The opening timings are from 10:30 [...]
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January 13th, 2008
I have written many times on the lack of consumer choice in Kerala. The only hope is the arrival of new retail chains. In Kerala, Trivandrum is especially hostile to consumers. Most of the shopkeepers are behaving like they are running some kind of charity shop for consumers.
Check out an interesting experience of Mr. Santhosh [...]
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December 20th, 2007
Today there was interesting phenomenon in Trivandrum city. Almost all the computer shops had their shutters half closed! Reason? News leaked out that Microsoft and police is conducting raids to find out usage of pirated software!
It turned out to be a raid against select software companies not hardware vendors. So by afternoon most of the [...]
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