Wishing everyone a very Happy Onam

Not sure how many of you out there know about the Malayali comedian named Salim Kumar. But this was one a hell of an album video that got everyone tickling to the bones.

Enjoy

Now this was really a surprise for me…

Found the first Malayalam blog-post on Blogathon.in.

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Its well written and good to read. Sorry guys Google doent have a Malayalam-English translator

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous year ahead.

Its Vishu for God’s own Country… thats New Year for Us

Imagine this … You’re really hungry and track down a hotel. You happily reach there and find your worst fears coming alive …

HOTEL “VIDHIPOLE” - translated as - “As Fate May Come…”

At times i don’t understand what’s happening with all these politicos.

Lets take the Achuthanandan (namesake) led CPI government of Kerala. He came into power with a bang. He waived off farmer loans. Great Work? The other side of the story, the waiver was for those farmers who had committed suicide.

I feel it was good of him to do that. Something is better than Nothing.

Second, he reclaims illegal land encroachments. That included a minister too. Bold move again. Common man rejoiced, as they had only seen such iconic personality in Movies.

On the flip side, the CM was getting famous and the party CPM, well they didn’t gain much ground with their Leader’s high flying acts.

Lets reanalyze - CPM - Communist - i.e. the group that stands for the Common Man, the Laborer, the Bourgeois.

Kerala is blessed with a beautiful monsoon season. Thanks to Global Warming, the rain seems to have come a well 3 months in advance. The unwary Farmer spots the rainclouds one fine day. Now he has to make a choice to save his hard work, the Yield of an year - he can get the machine running and do the work in say 2-3hrs or He can get hired hands, debate on their wage, their working time and do th work in 2-3days.

Now if i was a Farmer what will i do? With CPM around i would go for option-2. SOMETHING is better than NOTHING.

But the Farmers, chose option-1. The so called Communist ‘Workers’ came, stopped him from running the machine and as he watched rain lashed upon the fields ruining everything.

Day-4 and we are standing at Rs. 12-13 Crores lost in damages to crops alone.

Now, let me think, Why exactly didn’t CPM shine when Achuthananthan was doing a good job?

Come let’s talk about Loan Waivers again…

2007, India turned 60 and yet She has the vigor and sensuality of a 16 year old. She still has the tenacity and the power to indulge herself in anything. Indians have grown at a tremendous pace in the last 5 years.

2007 bids good bye with the threat of another election looming at large. The Nuclear deal with US is proving to be a bit costly for the Indian National Congress lead UPA Govt. With Gujarat and Himachal polls suggesting that Congress rule at the center is loosing steam, they cant afford to go on an early election. BJP did it and they lost. The question of aam aadmi, is likely to prove costly for INC. There are enough over-the-teacup discussions on politics, lets move on..

In the name of GOD, still proves to be a hindrance in development process, with politicos going to the extend of deliberately forgetting the fact about a Secular state. Wounds of past events are kept fresh. The sad part is that, even the highly educated people fall for such roadblocks. Education is still not able to curb the differences. Yes the literacy rate is up for the Nation from approx 52% in 1991 to 65% in the 2001 census. But yet we heard about infanticide in some of our modern cities.

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We Indians are developing with a tremendous pace. We are all set to even concur the moon. But inspite of all that we just cant kill the habit of - SPITTING

We are just oblivious to the fact that ‘Spitting in Public Places is a Punishable offense‘. But who cares, look at our tradition. We have been traditionally a pan-chewing-spit-anywhere-you-like community. So we carried our tradition to the 20th and now to the 21st century, not to mention that we infected the Britishers too who left after 400 years.

When will we ever stop this? We pump out more and more gutkas and pans. Something like the BJP lead swadeshi movement against Wrigley’s chewing gum. Chew!!! Indians chew!!! Spit and make every place red at first and then maroon. Or may be they are just trying to make India a communist state.

Who prompted this short post? - the guy who was with me at the railway station this morning. He would just walk in circles and spit all round the place. As if he is tired he would come and sit occasionally and then spit every where in a 1 meter radius. I have never seen a much more disgusting fellow in my life.

Music of the movie “Of the People”(Malayalam), the third and hopefully the final movie in the series started by Jayaraj is out. Well i’m not a big fan of Malayalam movies these days coz of the pointless stories and larger than life depiction of characters, with Mohanlal leading the run. Music on the other side has enticed and caught my attention every now and then.

I have a uncanny linking for funky tunes and music with a difference. So when Jassie Gift came out with the music of “4:The People“(the first of the series by Jayaraj) the music was fresh and the song “Lajjavathiye” went on to become a hit. Even it got dubbed in 4 languages. I dont rememberany songs in particular from the movie, “By The People” (second in series).

But this one, “Of The People”, has got the feeling that it could spell some success with music. The song “Undu Undu” in particular. Its a nice song to listen to and the beat is also good.

Listen and Enjoy !!

PIA is Pain In Ass and not Pakistan International Airlines.

Being a Mallu or Malayali (not being offensive in any way by calling myself a Mallu), i’m proud that when it comes to literacy we are doing fairly good as a state. So when this article came to my attention - 300% increase in violence against women in India’s most literate state - i did feel very bad. Being literate we were supposed to be as a model for others to follow and we all together portraying a wrong picture here.

But the i saw the other angle of that. They reached that statistics coz women in Kerala realized the power of law and that there are laws that protect them from domestic violence. They approached the law when in need. The clause that caught me is - “cases files”.

So all those state that say that there is only a marginal increase in domestic violence or that the stats have fallen, RETHINK!!! It could be because that people dont know about the law. Tell them about the law and then lets see.

Even though the report said all that about Kerala, it still quotes this -

But change could happen fast in Kerala, thanks to high levels of literacy. Greater awareness, redressal mechanisms, etc. could help women move forward, as has been seen in recent times.

Thats why i say Literacy can be a real Pain in the Ass at times …