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                                   ( A view of deserted Court Road, Palakkad during a hartal day) I am re posting an extract from my earlier blog concerning Hartals that I posted in 2010 . Shocking to say nothing much has changed in the last 2 years. HARTAL (REFER WIKIPEDIA) Hartal is a form of civil disobedience movement. The word has it's origin in Gujarathi which was imbibed by the great Mahatma as an effective tool of civil and mass disobedience movement and an effective protest. BANDHS (REFER WIKIPEDIA) Bandhs in hindi means closed. It is perhaps the most feared form of protest where in a political party call for protest and it is expected that the public will comply, in most cases forcibly complied.  The most affected are the states of West Bengal and Kerala which is ruled by the left parties which has seen the maximum number of hartals and bandhs. In Kerala, the Honorable Hig...

                                                                                                                           I had  been out of blogging for the past one month. In this time many things had been going on including coalgate (not to be confused with the toothpaste). Yet again I am not going to write another blog lamenting about the corruption in India. I am a great believer in time and a time will come when there will be a change in the system and all the evils will disappear. So I have decided to concentrate on the impending fuel price hike in India. In the last two years, the prices of fuel have sky rocketed in India with Petrol currently bein...

The Hindu : Columns / Nirmal Shekar : Let us accept the truth

There is a book called Disorder in the Court. These are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters - who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. Some of these are excellent ... Q: What is your date of birth? A: July fifteenth. Q: What year? A: Every year. Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the accident? A: Gucci sweatshirt and Reeboks. Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th? A: Yes. Q: And what were you doing at that time? Q: She had three children, right? A: Yes. Q: How many were boys? A: None. Q: Were there any girls? Q: How was your first marriage terminated? A: By death. Q: By whose death was it terminated? Q: Can you describe the individual? A: He was about medium height and had a beard. Q: Was this a male, or a female? Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Q: All your respon...

In the memory of our fallen heroes of kargil . In order to keep the honour of their motherland , Many gave away their life for her holy sand... To give an answer to foreign armies, They jumped into the jaws of death.... They fought till their very last breath, They are our nation's true wealth.... They are the great warriors. "No mind we die" they said. "We have to fight" "We have to fight" The last word that we heard from them was nothing else than " The 13'th Anniversary of India's victory against Pakistan in Kargil, celebrated as Vijay Diwas. Let us pray for all the brave soldiers who gave up their lives defending our great country and let us thank and cherish their glorious sacrifice for us and our country. JAI HIND"

Kerala, the land created by gods to be the heaven on earth. Blessed with abundance of natural resources, beauty with all the green mountains, rivers, lakes, sea etc, she has everything  that a person can only dream off. I had always a certain pride being born as an Indian in Kerala. With high literacy rate, health care etc, Kerala exhibited all the parameters of a highly developed society. She also had the lowest crime rate comparable to any state in India. But there was something that was always wrong with Kerala. Kerala also lacked in any credible industrialization, with militant trade unionism, no entrepreneur  worth his name was ready to invest in Kerala. Being a person born in Palakkad, I could always see the huge difference of development between Palakkad and Coimbatore which is in Tamilnadu just across the border about 50Km away. Each and everyday Coimbatore was changing with huge industries and prosperity of the masses. ...