Absurd Students

Now a days parents are showing a special interest on their children to get an admission in private CBSE and ICSE schools. Even for getting an admission in first standard they are being levied huge amounts as donation. Is it really worthy? Anyway, I want to share an incident that happened recently.

Last week when I was waiting for bus in a bus stand, I got a chance to talk with a 12^th standard CBSE student which held me astounded.

Firstly, I asked about his name and school name (P.S I don’t wish to reveal them anyway). Then, I asked about his future plans and he said he wish to go for medical studies. Later on, we discussed about entrance test and his own opinion on the entrance coaching he was undergoing .He said he always had a tight schedule that he had to attend it even on holidays and also added that he was not getting ample time to study.

Later on I asked his views on politics and social events (I always do). I got to know that he was not interested in politics and not a communist-minded .I wittingly (but not) asked him about the ration card and enquired about his name in card. To my astonishment, he wasn’t aware of his name in ration card or not simply he was completely unaware of such a card. This got me further interested to ask more about such things. I asked him about cost of 1kg rice. To add to my astonishment, from his facial expression, I understood that he didn’t know about it. I asked him give some guess. He said it was between 50 and 75, I wondered because even good variety Biryani race won’t cost that much. Every Sundays he has to attend coaching classes, hence he rarely goes to church, furthermore he don’t even know his neighbours  and even Malayalam language but he is good in his academics.

This is not a unique incident in my life, but now I got the chance to write about this. Anyway after some years, he will be a doctor. How a doctor can do his job (no, its service) without knowing the heartbeat of society? Surely he will do his job as machines do….

Who is responsible for this situation? I will say the main culprits are their parents. They are very eager to make their children simply doctors, engineers, civil servants only in certificates but not in real life. No one is interested to keep a good relation with their community, society, nation etc. Thus, these parents are making simply Amul babies who lack capacity or capability to handle problem because they haven’t seen or faced real issues ever in their life. Lacking the ability to tackle even small problems, their lives end in miserable situations and are likely to end in suicides. This is one of the main reasons for increasing number of suicides and suicide attempts in a so called “highly educated” Kerala.

In order to overcome this serious problem, parents should take the steps in their home itself. Teach them how to get good attachment to the environment where they are staying, allow them to visit neighbour’s houses, allow them to play with their friends, help and care those who deserve it etc. Thus gradually you can cultivate the sense of commitment to the society in the minds of your children. Once they attain this great quality they will never lose in their life. Thus you are making a powerful, wise, and caring new generation. If you do so you are doing the worthiest thing for your children and to our nation.

Jai Hind

Bharat Darshan

KONKAN RAILWAY

A variety tour-programme conducted by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).The concept of Indian Railway’s Bharat Darshan Tourist Train is a special train taking tourist to popular places of interest all over India. This tour program was started by former Railway Minister Sri Lalu Prasad Yadav during his tenure in 2007.This tour program is meant for common people in our country at an affordable rate about Rs 500/day. The railway provides sleeper class coaches for all tourist passengers. This journey will be a great experience for students and young guys to know about our great country.

I want to share some facts that I experienced from the journey:

UNSCIENTIFIC DISPOSAL OF WASTE

• Waste disposal is one of the major issues being faced by our country. No states have proper waste disposal system. Corporation and municipality are dumping their waste materials in villages and slums, thereby making the local people destined to live in nasty places where we Keralites can’t even imagine. Another one is about the improper latrine facilities provided by the Indian Railway. They use rail tracks as septic tanks thereby affecting nearby areas making it a serious issue that the government should consider.

In Hariyana

• Our country India has large area of arable land; however the cultivation depends on monsoon. Unfortunately, most of them are affected by severe draught.

A boy selling lemon juice near India Gate

• Outside Kerala we can see lot of small boys aged between 6 to12 as street vendors. They are not going to school and poverty-stricken .They are making their livelihood in streets. I wonder why there are no education schemes to reach these boys?

A Sikh near Golden Temple

• I visited around 12 states. I got to understand a fact that Sikhs are good in their conduct, service, and patience and are EGO less in nature.

Old Delhi

• Slums of Old Delhi are the dirtiest of all places I saw in the journey.Smokes, open sewages and dirtiest pigs and people defecating in open are only few of many such pathetic conditions.

Map of Chandigarh

• Chandigarh is the best planned city in India, with world-renowned architectures and a quality of life, which I found unparalleled.The city was a dream project of Jawaharlal Nehru and it was designed by French architect Le Corbusier.

We stayed here where you can see a bar in the ground floor.

• We can say Goa is a place of Christian churches and beaches but in contrast we can’t see a single hotel or a restaurant without bar. You can consume liquor openly and gambling games are accepted by rule.

Kali Temple on the top of Golkonda Fort

• The Golkonda fort was built by a Muslim ruler of Qutub ShahiDynasty, but the interesting thing is that there is a Kali Temple on the top of the fort and a lot of people are coming to worship without any disputes.

Used bottles

• Agra is home for cunning and cheating vendors. I saw some people busy in collecting empty mineral water bottles and they are refilling it from nearby wells and rivers and then reselling it.

Salar-Jung-Museum

• Salar-Jung museum – This museum houses one of the biggest one-man collections of antiques in the world-by Salar Jung ॥।. Persian carpets,Chinese porcelain,superb collection od jade,daggers belonging to Queen Noor Jahanand Emperor Jahangir and Emperor Shah Jahan’s sword,armor etc.

• While going through  Andra Pradesh by train we can feel like sitting inside a furnace ie; hot winds constantly striking our face was terrible. Almost all other state exept Goa has a temperature in between 42- 45 degree celsius.

I took this snap in my Gavi trip

Last verdict- Our Kerala is the best place to live.Really a God’s own country while comparing with other states in India.

Guardians Of Faith

BJP is working sincerely to spoil the secular behavior of our nation. In BJP governed states like Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh& Uttarakhand, Hindutva manifests itself in the form of attack on minorities especially Muslims and Christians. They are keen to ruin privileges of minorities. Attacks

Hindu Extremist in Chattisgarh

against these minorities are done in various ways viz., bovine protection, promoting Sanskrit, compulsory Bhagvad Gita lessons in curriculum etc. In places like Bhopal there has been systematic violence against minorities.

In most places minorities of BJP ruled states are scared to go out of their home, or to churches etc. Usually they are attacked just because they happen to be Christians and authorities wouldn’t take any action against any of these activities. In some places Government ordered police officials to collect information about minorities, their churches, institutions, political influence etc but the order was withdrawn after it got leaked to the media.

Dharma Sena a subsidiary of RSS forcibly entered the campus of Catholic Convent School in Korba and performed Saraswati Puja inside the class rooms on January 30.They were protesting against the principal Sister Mary, who was against their activities. Besides all these happened in the presence of Sub-Division Magistrate, SP and a posse of police personals .Recently a Christian priest got beaten up and Christian homes are attacked in Chhattisgarh. Reconversion of Christians to Hinduism is a common practice in Chhattisgarh.

RSS has its own NGO and are working at tribal areas with a hidden agenda of spreading Hinduism among them. The Vanasi Kaiyan Ashram (VKA) is one of them with an aim to bringing tribals into Hindu fold and to protest against Christians. Through the education imparted in the school run by VKA and through discourse, the tribal people are encouraged to adopt the Hindu religion.

An attempt of saffronisation is being pursued in a discreet manner in Gujarat. They had introduced highly objectionable anti minority, gender insensitive contents in various textbook for students but later it get withdrawn, but these portions are still discussed in class rooms across the state. That portion refers minorities are the one of the

Karnataka ministers watching porn film during the time of assembly

foremost problem faced by our nation and it also refers that Muslims, Christians, Parsis as foreigners. Massive parallel education machinery of Sangh Parivar is also growing steadily, this machinery which is spearheaded by organization such as VIdya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan; predominantly follow a syllabus that has communal overtone. It owns 28000 education institutions with approximately 3,250000 students in their roll. This is the main strategy adopted by sangh parivar for saffronisation.

As early as 1996,an evaluation of Vidya Bharati textbook carried out by NCERT found that they are designed to promote bigotry and religious fanaticism in the name inculcating knowledge of culture in the young generation.

I think Keralites  are better know about their tactics that’s why till now BJP is not getting a single seat in assembly election. So we should take this matter seriously to avoid communal riots in our country and make people aware of Sangh Parivar’s hidden agendas.As I said above BJP ruled states are forcefully introducing their Hindu agendas. They are doing all these activities in the name of keep culture,tradition,diginity of our nation but from recent new from various medias all vigorous cultural and traditional exploitation are happened in those BJP ruled states and video scam by a BJP minister.  Many youngsters are attracted by activities of RSS but remember their aim is to ruin our secularism. So you should think why we want such an organization in our secular nation? Our’s aim should be “Unity in Diversity” rather than simply unity. We Muslims and Christians are not foreigners we are INDIANS-TRUE INDIANS. Don’t allow anyone to ruin our country’s dignity.

                                                                                JAI HIND

Story of a real hero-Ajeet Singh

Ajeet Singh

As you know human trafficking is spreading drastically. Globally, human trafficking is the second largest – and fastest growing – criminal industry in the world. (Polaris Project).The global profits from trafficked sex slaves were $35.7 billion USD in 2007. (Sex trafficking: inside the business of modern slavery, Kara 2009).More and more innocent people are getting victimized. Who will raise voice against this social evil ? “Every one wants a Bhagat Singh to born but not from their home.” Ajeet Singh is the man who put his entire life for the rehabilitation of sex workers and their children. For that he founded an NGO named “Guria” at Shivadaspur,a suburb of Varanasi in 1993.Their objective is to eliminate second generation prostitution, prevent child prostitution and trafficking of women and children.
For the first time he visited Shivadaspur, the sex workers thought he was a customer. He started communicating with their children and began teaching. Later he started Guria and he began to educate them through his open school under the moon and stars. Over years Guria had rescued and rehabilitated more than 100 sex workers hailing from Nepal, West Bengal, UP,Maharastra etc and their children from various brothels. Guria has also intervened in the case of kidnapping and forced prostitution. In Shivadaspur “For mothers, their daughter are earning units” .

Now RED is in wane

In the 10000 strong population in Shivdaspur almost 46% are female. When flesh trade was at its zenith before the intervention of Guria, there were about 1000 active sex workers in the area. Frequent raid and closing of brothels have led to sex trade in wane. It is because of Singh’s effort that place has become India’s first child prostitution free area. Guria has made a difference here. like in other red light areas, heavily painted girls, waiting for their customers, do not make an appearance at sundown.
Here people of Shivadaspur have a brave Ajeet Singh to work against human trafficking. In our state also pimps are so common they wisely exploit poor people and children because of their poverty, unemployment, education and lack of proper rules and regulation. All of us can’t be a person like Ajeet Singh but you can do a little by making people aware of human trafficking. Hope you do something for ours brothers, sisters and our society.

The Idiot: Kapil Sibal

The title of this post is both attention grabbing and an unpalatable truth. This post and its title is inspired by a Twitter trend (with a hash tag #idiotkapilsibal) that brought my attention to  Kapil Sibal.

A key Congress leader, Kapil Sibal is a minister in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the ruling coalition at the Center. He is also a very famous legal eagle – one of this country’s most famous lawyers. Another important qualification, if I may call it that, is that he is a myrmidon, i.e. a blind follower of the two Gs (no pun intended!) – Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi; this is probably his trump card that readily advances his political interests.

No, this writing is not a diatribe against Kapil Sibal; it is against every individual who believes that they can misuse and abuse their freedom of speech and action to trample on our freedom of speech and action. 

The reasons for my anger against Sibal’s actions are the contents of an article in the New York Times. About six weeks back, Sibal, the Union Minister for Telecommunications and IT, met the executives of top technology and social media companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft. He asked the executives to prescreen user content originating from India and that they should remove inflammatory or defamatory before it goes online. 

Sibal’s directive would have been alright if it were directed in the context of our national interest and the country’s security – like anything anti-national and spreading of hate content. 

What makes Sibal’s directive dangerous for the health of our democratic freedoms are the reasons for the censorship: Internet users from India are using social media networks (like Facebook and Twitter) to disparage the Congress leadership (read – the mother-son duo, who else!). 

Let me reproduce an excerpt from the The New York Times Article

At the meeting, Mr Sibal showed attendees [the company executives] a Facebook page that maligned the Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi.  “This is unacceptable,” he told attendees… and he asked them to find a way to monitor what is posted on their sites. 

[…] Sibal has told these companies that he expects them to set up a proactive prescreening system, with staffers looking for objectionable content and deleting it before it is posted.

[T]hese companies will tell Sibal at the meeting on Monday [held on Dec 5; no word yet from Sibal or his ministry on the outcome] that his demand is impossible, given the volume of user-generated content coming from India, and that they cannot be responsible for determining what is and isn’t defamatory or disparaging.

“If there’s a law and there’s a court order, we can follow up on it,” said an executive from one of the companies attending the meeting. But these companies can’t be in the business of deciding what is and isn’t legal to post.

It is heartening to know that these technology and social media companies have refused to accept the diktat of the morally bankrupt government at the Center. 
I am glad that Kapil Sibal did not win this case for his Madam and her Baba son; Sibal may not have shown any spine; at least these foreign companies have. This augurs well for our sacred freedoms of speech and expression, so beautifully guaranteed by the noble Constitution of India.

And yes, one question for Kapil Sibal: Would he have asked the technology companies to prescreen and remove any disparaging content against Narendra Modi?

Chernobyl to Koodankulam

25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the place still remains abandoned and dangerous. There are no people, there are no lives; only the remains of the once-bustling town of Chernobyl and plenty of dangerous radioactive materials.

On April 26, 1986 the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster changed lives of people in USSR forever. Everyone left their place hoping to return back in a few days but they never did, as everything owned or used was highly contaminated with dangerous radioactive materials. Even after all these years, Chernobyl is still a dangerous place.Eating, smoking or touching any structure or vegetation in exclusion zone is prohibited. Harmful radioactive dust covers almost everything including nearby Priyat River. Visitors are required to sign a waiver absolving the Ukraine government of any liability due to health problem that may result from visit.

The radiations emitted at that time was 400 times stronger than that of in Hiroshima in 1945.Nobody knows how many people perished due to the disaster. Official record states that 31 people died immediately from radiation and more are affected by radiation related diseases like cancer. Children were more vulnerable to cancer as they drank milk with high level of radioactive iodine. Other staples like berries, mushrooms and potatoes are still contaminated in Ukraine. Cultivation is totally stopped in Chernobyl and fields have given way to dense forest where wildlife is slowly coming back. This is only a brief description about the disasters that happened in Ukraine.

location of Koodankulam NP(A)

Now I would like to consider things that are happening in Koodankulam. In our country officials and government are busy with setting a nuclear power plant in Kodankulam without considering the voice of local people staying there. Examining the geographical location of Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the plant is located on the edge of the sub continent land and near to Indian Ocean. Southern Tamil Nadu is Known For Tsunami from ancient time. Several historical document claims that many major cities have been wiped out due to huge Tsunami. We also know that in Dec 2004 southern India was swept by huge tsunami triggered due to an underwater earth quake near Indonesia .And one more thing about Kodankulam plant, the site is located at an altitude of 8.7m from mean sea level, while Fukuhima Nuclear Plant it is at a height of 14m to 15m from sea level and we all know about what happened there.

Impact of Tsunami on Koodankulam Plant can be catastrophic due to its geographic location and altitude. The scale of destruction of a possible Tsunami does call for attention and scrutiny of the project. So officials and government should rethink about this project to be built in same place. Otherwise chance of Koodankulam becoming another Chernobyl is high. Pray that this may not to happen.

Ten Travel Tips for Drivers

Driving Tips

1. Try to commence your journey early in the morning because you’ll feel less tired when you reach your destination, with less traffic and a pleasant climate.
2. Don’t take heavy food before long journeys because it may lead to sleepiness and vomiting.
3. If you feel sleepy don’t continue your driving, please rest for some time or give it to the co-driver if he is not in same condition as you and then resume your driving.
4. A driver should be aware of his vehicle’s length and breadth.
5. For long journeys try to keep your fuel tank full because you can’t avoid the chance of breakdown due to lack of fuel or you may compelled to return to a fuel station without reaching the destination. (In high range, hilly, forest areas the fuel station is at the far end and at the beginning of those areas)
6. Dim your headlamp for the vehicle coming opposite to you during night.
7. Try to use three mirrors in your vehicle while driving.
8. Don’t compel 2WD vehicles (especially cars having less ground clearance) to take the route of a 4WD vehicle.
9. Be alert while driving, ready to face any situation.
10. Always give preference to other vehicles, I am sure this will bring down accidents drastically. 

SPEED THRILLS BUT NEVER KILLS, ONLY IF YOU CAN CONTROL THE VEHICLE PROPERLY, BUT CARELESSNESS THRILLS AND IT KILLS EVEN IF YOU ARE VERY SLOW

Black Mass

Black Mass-A serious social issue

History

In earlier times the word “black mass” was not used for Evil worship, it was practiced as a ritual for the destruction of one’s enemy. (Similar to those masses done by Christianity in Kerala aimed at enemy destruction in past) but these forms of rituals are removed by law in 15^th century. From that incident black came to the world as evil worship. These worships are believed to have been practiced from ancient days.

First black mass was performed by the desire of Louis XIV’s wife (Madam de Montspan) by the priest Atin Geborg. She did it in order to attract her husband sexually, but this was not practiced as evil worship. In later years this form of rituals found relation with evil worship. The black mass got this popularity from an American stage program by a group called Kovan in 1968. The hymns used in black mass are just opposite to the Holy mass.

Main Attractions

Evil worship and black mass crosses the borders of true values. The performer behind these rituals aimed to gain public acceptance of sexual abuse. Only wealthy personals in the society are welcomed to these groups so some take this ritual as a measurement of their dignity. Once you take part in this ritual, it’s very difficult to get a relief from it and you will be in compelled slavery. Black mass is performed by stolen holy bread from churches and one will get 7000-15000 for each piece. In our land (Kerala) these types of social evils have been at work.

Some Remedies

First of all make people aware of this public adultery. Presbyters should be very careful when given holy bread in order not to get stolen. Once bread contact with your tongue is made, then it is not acceptable to Stan worshipers. So it is better to give bread in mouth rather in hand as some churches are now doing. Church and parents should pay good attention in teaching Bible, services and the rituals properly.

RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST THIS SOCIAL EVIL

Kerosene Drinkers

Those who drink Kerosene

Do any of you like to drink Kerosene? Or will you give it to anyone for drinking? Even if you don’t, it is happening in our society. Most people are unaware of this social issue. We take Kerosene often mistaken as edible oil; the name given to this Kerosene is Mineral oil (liquid paraffin).

What is this mineral oil?

It is a distillate of petroleum. It is a colorless and odorless liquid and less costly than all other edible oils.

Advantages of Mineral oil for deceptive Bakeries

If we make any food product in coconut oil or any other edible oil, there is a high chance of formation of fungus on its surface when exposed to air. But if you noticed, Bakery food items don’t get fungus even if exposed to open space for months. Do any of you think why this happens? It’s because of the usage of Mineral oil instead of coconut oil.

40000 liters of Mineral oil needs only 200 ml of coconut oil (perfume) to get its odor and common people think it is pure oil.

Consequence after the usage of Mineral oil

Once you take food materials cooked in mineral oil, you always get attracted to the same product.  These products attack our brain and also increase the rate of cell division taking place in our body resulting in cancer. Another issue is that it helps to fasten aging. So beware of bakery food items and reduce its consumption.

A Battle…

A Battle with this world

Ephesians 6:12

For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents), but against the despotism, against the power, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the sprit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.

From the above verse we can see that we are in war with this world. A careful study of the verse tells us that our war is not with our fellow beings, friends or relatives but with the devils and the demons of this world .Our enemy Satan, attempts to defeat us with his well planned strategies and deceits.

Satan is very wise. He knows what we like and what we don’t. He knows our insecurities, weakness, fear and what bothers us most. He is willing to invest any amount of time to defeat us .One of the devils strong points is his patience.

Tearing down those strongholds of evil

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

For the weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of flesh & blood), but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds.

The apostle Paul tells us that we have the weapons we need to overcome Satan’s strongholds.

So you should be wary of your activities and be alert in life. Begin all your work with a prayer and ask Him (GOD) to get enough strength to overcome the temptations of this world. Always keep in touch with God.