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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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April 23rd, 2008
In a gruesome incident, 3 people were killed by an elephant at Koodal Manikyam temple (Irinjalakkuda). The elephant also caused extensive damage to the temple. The rampage continued for about 2 hours.
As you can see from the report, Police had a tough time preventing people from entering inside the temple. The following video is from [...]
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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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July 11th, 2007
This is a live video coverage of the elephant attack that happened in Thrissur. Please note that this is highly graphic. I can’t believe that this was telecast by Kairali TV. You can also see some people sticking around as if they want to be part of the action.
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April 30th, 2007
Surendar has created an excellent photo album on Thrissur pooram 2007,
Thrissur Pooram is the most colourful temple festival of Kerala, south India.It is a festival of light, colour, percussion and elephants.
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April 30th, 2007
Thrissur pooram is a must visit event for a lot of malayalees around Thrissur. But this time, it was not well received as the previous poorams due to many reasons - “delay between fireworks”, “fireworks were no loud enough” and “elephant stampede”. Here are some of the videos I found on the pooram festival.
1. Elephant [...]
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April 9th, 2007
Nowadays almost on a daily basis, you can see newspaper reports of elephants going mad and killing its mahout. Some think that this happens because elephant is an aggressive animal. The truth is just opposite. Elephant is one of the most peaceful animals you can find. Then why all these tragedies?
The tragedy is that elephants [...]
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April 3rd, 2007
Kavitha Suresh has created a photo story on Thrissur pooram using the photos she had recently taken. The photo story is a video and on a dialup will take a lot of time. Also requires windows media player. The video length is about 5 minutes.
Here is a small clipping I made about my native festival [...]
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March 21st, 2007
Here is a “ghost video” a short film shot in Kerala. This video is by C R Krishnan. Is somewhere near Thrissur
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January 28th, 2007
Sometime back I wrote a post about the karuvannur toll bridge guessing that probably it is the cheapest toll bridge. The toll is for 2 rupees.
Kuttan menon writes about an incident in Amala hospital which shows how valuable 2 rupees can be!
കഞ്ഞിക്ക് പത്തുരൂപയാണ് വില. ആ സ്ത്രീയുടെ കൈവശം 8 രൂപയേ ഉള്ളൂ. കൌണ്ടറിലെ പയ്യന് അല്പം പരുഷമായിത്തന്നെയാണ് ആ [...]
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January 18th, 2007
There is toll bridge on the Karuvannur-Arattupuzha road which probably qualifies as the cheapest toll bridge in the world! They charge 2 rupees (about 4 US cents) for a car! The funny thing is that they reuse the tickets (note different date seals on the ticket).
Interestingly some of the local drivers are smart and they [...]
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January 18th, 2007
Yesterday I happened to drive from Thrissur to Kodungallur. This road is a narrow two lane road, but the problem is that it is well maintained! This road is a curse for the local residents. The villain? - Limited stop private buses that ply on this road.
While driving, a long distance bus overtook me at [...]
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January 17th, 2007
Unbelievable? Well, here is how it works. Many schools now print receipt books for anything varying from library renovation to annual celebrations. These receipt books are then given to students to collect money from public. In practise, this turns out to be begging with one or more students going to houses to collect money.
Now you [...]
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