Parlour ice cream, Kozhikode

Case of parlour ice cream Kozhikode returned with a bang. The leader of the UDF Ommen Chandy, potential candidate for post of the CM, leading comfortably "Kerala Mochana Yathra' on the hearing the news fell ill. Despite announcements repeated full-page in press documents for a long time, the LDF is so desperate to fight against the UDF in confidence-building measures. Nevertheless, they were given new breath with Kunhalikutty-Rauf case of rotten sex scandal.

Really the new revelations are death blow of nature to the UDF. The plea of his kin that Kunhalikutty spent huge sums of money to buy his way out of the ice cream parlour case put the UDF prospects down. The businessman Rauf has vigorously proved that he is not only a crafty person a political pimp too. Rauf's charge that Kunhalikutty could have influenced the Judiciary puts it also under inkling especially in the backdrop of the continuing allegation against top judicial man like K G Balakrishnan. It is to be noted that the Supreme Court also had cleared the name of Kunhalikutty in the ice-cream case.

A best friend often turns out to a worst foe and that is what happened in Kunhalikutty's ice cream parlour case.

K A Solaman

Needed a Judgment machine!

Whether it is the wealth amass by the son-in-law of former CJ of India Justice K G Balakrishan or the alleged involvement of Justice K Thankappan and Justice K Naraynakurup in the ice-cream parlour sex scandal case it is an unwelcome status for the Indian Judicial system. Ordinary people who had lost faith in political parties were keeping some faith in Judiciary until recently but lost faith with news pouring in from Indian Judiciary. It is time for a scrupulous introspection of the country's Judicial frame work. The judges allegedly received scraps to sabotage the case and amassed wealth, should be questioned and if found guilty, grilled.

Moreover, control over News Channels is imminent as they sensationalize silly matters by drawing the names of honorable judges. The damage they cause to respectable persons is beyond any reckon even if the person under allegation proves his innocence later. The channels should not be given an upper hand to say about a person whether guilty or not. Instances are many where channel findings have later proved to be wrong. It is also impending to inquire whether channels get a payback from persons under their scanner.

And the question is: can we trust channels as we did in the case of the Indian judicial. The "land of God" became a perverse sex country where fraud politicians, corrupt judges and shady channels dictate matters. We need computer aided judgment machinery as judges are human beings and they are prone to corruption.

K A Solaman

Enchanting and charming Shreya Goshal!

Kerala Ministers have decided for Malayalam compulsory education in all schools, including CBSE and CISP. No doubt the decision was taken after viewing online in English from John Brittas of the Kairali Channel with play back singer Shreya Goshal, interview the day of the Republic. All interviews in English should be banned in Kerala including Kairali Channel hereafter!

And there a similar nastiness need Brittas said in public with a woman who "you are enchanting and charming."


K A Solaman

Deadly faith

Sir — The people killed in the Sabarimala incident were devotees of Lord Ayyappa. They were on their way back after celebrating the Makaravilakku festival. The stampede was the biggest mishap in Kerala after 107 passengers of the Bangalore-Thiruvananthapuram Island Express died when the train fell off the Perumon bridge across the Ashatamudi lake in Kollam district in 1988.

The huge rush at the Sabarimala temple and the narrow roads are the main reasons behind the accident. The precautions taken by the government to avoid such disasters have come to nought. More scientific planning is required to administer the crowds and the traffic to make the Sabarimala shrine safe for visitors.


K.A. Solaman
The Telegraph, Kolkata 19 Jan 2011

Justice vs Justice!

Former Justice V R Krishna Iyer is seen much worried over the silence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of former Chief Justice of India and National Human Rights Commission Chairman K G Balakrishnan. Perhaps PM might have contemplated that when Iyer is making ample sound on the issue why he interfere and make more noise.

Had Iyer always an indisputable approach former Justice V Giri would not have come with a rejection of Iyer’s allegation that he had approached Iyer with a request to not to write to the Prime Minister on the issue. Justice vs Justice: a hard-hitting situation for common people to comprehend.
K A Solaman

Sky will not fall on saying 'Makaravilakku.'

At least for rationalists many burning problems of State are apparently silly. They are not worried about Martin’s Bhutan lottery, rising price of essential commodities, petrol price hike, VS- Isaac tussle, Oommen Chandy’s Kerala Mochana yathra or even the nonstop assault by Musli Vita powered thugs on hapless women. The silly stuff union viz. rationalist organisation in Kerala, Yukthivadi Sanghom, has approached the state high court, to intervene in the "celestial light" phenomenon near the Sabarimala temple, claiming it is man-made. They argue Makara Jyoti is an act of group of people. If so what? In the next season probably the number of people gathering at Sabimala multiple if the court declares ‘Makaravilakku’ is man-made.

Thanks for rationalists not saying that the reigning deity at Sabarimala has not saved the lives of 102 pilgrims at Pullumedu. Politicians like Chennithala asking people to keep their mouth shut on this issue is for getting a few votes in the next election. Should the sky fall if people talk about Makarvialakku or Thanthri Kanadaru Mohanaru

K A Solaman

Makaravilakku heals millions

Truth or myth-Makaravilakku and Sabarimala heal millions. Let it carry on. Sabarimala pilgrimage is a saunter into the Nature.

K A Solaman

Delhi Nair is replaced by Kerala Nair.

The huge void created by the unceremonious exit of ‘Delhi Nair’ Shashi Tharoor from the Central Cabinet was filled up by Kerala Nair K.C. Venugopal. Ostensibly Venugopal is far better a minister than Tharoor because he has not married thrice or not done any liaison work with any cricket consortium for sweat equity for his fiancé.

And undoubtedly Venugopal could improve relations between the Congress and the Nair Service Society as assistant secretary Sukumaran Nair is very happy with Venugopal's induction. So Venugopal’s immediate attention is in visiting Perunnai, then Kanichukulangara and later Bishops’s house, Alappuzha. Communal conciliation is the motto of all secular parties including the Left.

Though sworn in as the minister of state for power, his prime initiative will be the completion of Alappuzha bypass, the people Alappuzha so desire. Wishing him the best.
K A Solaman

Open Sabarimala shrine on all days.

The stampede at the Sabarimala shrine in which 104 pilgrims have died indicates that human life is a commodity for Rs 5-6lakh. The money that received by the family of ill-fated pilgrims says we do not value human life that much. Lack of proper schedule for the travel of people to Sabarimala is the root cause of the grave mishap.

To avoid the heavy rush at Makaravilaku season why can’t Devaswom Board make arrangement for keeping the Sabarimala temple opened all the days in a year instead limiting it to 41 days or less. Why the heap of camphor burned at Ponnambalamedu on Makaravilaku day alone? Can’t it be performed a dozen days in a year on other holy days so that pilgrims get more opportunity for a healing thought by viewing it? Again worshippers hating large crowd could also advantageously visit Sabarimala at their pace if the temple is kept opened on all days.

Sabarimala is small area and that is not meant for for huge crowd. It is located at a remote hilly place where easy accessibility is difficult. The government has not provided scientific traffic management despite the huge sum received from the pilgrims as donation and travel fare.

It is better to have an introspection for the people of Kerala than accusing one and the other.

K A Solaman
The New Indian Express dated 20 Jan 2011

Politburo in glass house.

Something quite unpleasant in the CPM is likely to shell out. The Polit bureau meeting decision to censure Kerala Chief Minister and veteran party leader V.S. Achuthanandan for the stand he took in the lottery controversy in the state is a pointer in this direction. VS has expressed his displeasure about the decision of the PB and the way by which the news were leaked out.

The PB decision to censure Achuthanandan is for sending a letter to the Centre demanding CBI enquiry in the lottery issue. Interestingly the PB act is a move against the larger interest of the common man in Kerala. Do PB need the majority illiterate and poor people of Kerala be looted more by lottery mafia and their goons?
It may be true that VS sent the letter without consulting the party. Would bigwigs of the party tainted in lottery mud permit VS to write a letter of the sort? VS’ letter was in good spirit and that has full support from large section of the people in the State. The PB sitting in glass house should come to earth.

K A Solaman

Black Friday.

It is a shocking black Friday of mishap for Kerala with death toll of 104 persons near Sabarimala Friday night. The people killed were devotees of Lord Ayyappa. They were returning after the Makaravilakku festival in Sabarimala . This is a major tragedy in Kerala after a total of 107 passengers of Bangalore-Thiruvananthapuram Island Express met with a watery grave as the train fell off Perumon bridge across the Ashatamudi lake in Kollam district on July 8, 1988.
The huge rush to Sabarimala and the bungling roads are the main reason for the accident. All precautions and care taken by the government till date have gone futile with this major accident.

More scientific planning is needed for crowd management and road traffic to make Sabarimala pilgrimage season incident-free.

K A Solaman
The New Indian Express dated 17 Jan 2011

Woman assaulted at school fete

It is really an unsightly event by the Deputy Director –Education, Alappuzha to manhandle the mother of a student participant for photographing in her mobile the ugly scene enacted by the DDE at the school fete venue at Thuravoor. The teacher turned DDE should learn how to behave in public. Seemingly he is incompetent to guide the teacher community and to maintain a peaceful atmosphere for school education in the district. He should be given compulsory retirement from service.

The whole fete at Thuravoor was carried out erratically and DDE sending parents to programme committee and the programme committee sending back them to DDE for rectification of grievance is evidently an indication of the lack organisational ability of the department. Local goons taking charge of school fete have made all events nasty. Shashikala, a poet from Punnapra and the mother of the Ottumthullal participant is a known figure in the cultural world of Alappuzha and people know her well that she would never indulge in nasty acts as did by the DDE.

If the teachers in charge of the fete are not able conduct it neatly transfer their duty to police or abandon all such meets in the future. Women whether a presiding officer or a budding poet- all are assaulted by goons in and around Alappuzha. This must stop.
K A Solaman

Fee for a view-that is it!

When CPM leaders in Kerala has sneakily withdrawn from ‘nokkukooli’(fee for a view) and said they were against it, the CPI has taken it as a prestige issue and its leader Kaanam Rajendran said they were not against ‘nookukooli’ According to him nookukooli is the right of the working class who were denied opportunity by mechanization. Kaanam was carrying on shoulders worn out cine actor Thilakan for quite long and when he realized there were no takers for Thilakan issue, Kanam shifted his target and become the new incarnation for nookukooli.

Kaanam should understand that they are not workers who demand nookukooli. Can he find a worker for climbing coconut tree or ploughing field? He can find only workers for party demonstrations and agitations. By asking nookukooli, common man is denied freedom to do their work themselves or to assign work to people of their own choice.
Nookukooli is in fact a virus and people like Kaanam should take decades to understand it.

K A Solaman

Black money in foreign banks

The allegation against former Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India Justice K G Balakrishnan and his son-in-law is the hot subject of discussion in political circles. Several politicians who started from zero and now possessing assets worth several crores have demanded probe against KGB. And in that case BJP’s demand that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should make efforts to bring back the black money deposited by politicians and businessmen in the foreign banks is in the right direction.

If the PM wishes to ensure corruption free system the demand of BJP should be viewed with utmost importance. Let the common man see ‘who owns, how much?’

K A Solaman

This time judges will not be “nincompoops”!

The Supreme Court of India has upheld the decision of Kerala High court banning public meeting on road sides. And one hopes this time the Marxist leader M V Jayarajan will not call judges as ‘idiots’ as he did earlier. It is a tough job to find synonym for the word ‘idot’.

In fact the State Government of Kerala is wasting its time by filing appeal at apex court for unjustifiable demands of political parties. Blocking roads and curtailing the freedom of movement of people is against constitutional provisions.

K A Solaman

Monsanto is the saviour of this house|

The CPM has put their hoary opposition against Monsanto into cold storage. They are no longer against genetically modified seeds. The move in the party’s stand on genetic crop farming is not because of any scientific know-how about BT seeds but to keep shut the mouths of Opposition parties on various issues.

Interestingly the CPM stance has drawn support from Union Minister of State for Agriculture KV Thomas, a person who forgot all the burning needs of the State when he has become central minister. The president of Kissan Sabha comrade S Ramachandran Pillai speaking in tune with Monsanto chief is also interesting to hear. Though Pillai is a politburo member of the party his opponents say he is incapable of winning a ward election if contested. He is making himself the author of ‘gods of small thing’ by uttering words indigestible to vast population of the country. Arunthathi speaks for Pakistan, likewise Pillai speaks for Monsanto.

The somersaulty by State Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, who opposed BT brinjal and disbursed Rs 20 lakhs to his party men for what is called Mararikulam Brinjal festival, now favouring Pillai is also intriguing.

K A Solaman

The sky is the limit

The success or failure of a space mission depends on many factors. The probability of successfully launching a satellite can't be predicted. That's the reason not too many people are criticising the recent failure of the GSLV satellite. The scientists must focus on rectifying technical snags. More than Chandrayaan, India needs more space projects that improve our communication network facility. Chandrayaan can only fetch data already available with Nasa or
similar agencies.
KA Solaman, via email
The Hindustan Times, Jan 2, 2011

Maternity leave for a decade

Yet another new year gift by the Kerala State Pay Commission to the State employees, teachers and of course not for pensioners is the proposal for revision of maternity leave of one year for women and paternity leave of ten days for men. The Commission is wise enough to identify that men have no effective role in bringing up the child. Wonderfully the commission has not restricted the number of such leaves to women. And if a woman so desires to give birth to ten children she could earn a good buck without doing any work for ten years. This I say because I have a friend who signs in his date of birth as 10/5/50 which also means that he is one among ten children of his parents and he is the fifth one. If anyone needs to meet my friend fix an appointment through woofer space blog.

K A Solaman

Live more get more

A few items of the New Year gift by the Kerala State Pay Commission to the State employees, teachers and pensioners are very charming. One such item is the proposal for upward revision of pension in the case of persons aged above 80 years. It is quite certain for the Commission that because of the present life style in association with Beverages Corporation there would be no one above 80 years among pensioners.

Had the Commission fixed this upper age limit as 90, the payout from the state exchequerin this direction could have been brought to zero. What the pension minister (?) proposes, the Commission disposes.

K A Solaman