Bird in the nest still fouls!

Writer and social critic Sukumar Azhikode accuses Kerala Chief Minister Achuthanandan for what is alleged about latter's son. And he feels happy for having not married and having no son like Arun Kumar. When there are other ministers with infamous sons in Achuthanandan's party Azhikode targeting Achuthanandan alone is conspicuous. Azhikode could have commented about them also. The ‘bird in the nest’ still fouls its nest.

K A Solaman

Saving Coir Industry!

It is highly interesting to see that a pepper spray device is being distributed in the IT campus at Technopark , Thiruvananthapuram as a self-defence mechanism for women employees who have to travel even during night. The distributors think night travel is safe for women with pepper spray made from chilly and pepper.

As an alternative why can’t the techies consult this matter with Coir Minister G Sudhkaran so that he could easily arrange a coir device for self protection. Though Alappuzha MLA Shukkoor pooh-pooh Sudhakaran for wasting State fund for his coir mela at Alappuzha Sudhakaran claims the Coir Board has received a huge order from abroad for the well-known ‘Coir Bhoovastram”. And if a coir hook like device can be expediently used by women to catch hold of aggressors, it would be a boon to women as well as coir industry.

K A Solaman

Corruption everywhere

The ministers are clean but bureaucrats are the corrupt, is not an acceptable perception because the corrupt ministers tempt bureaucrats to indulge in corruption. Corruption is a threat for our society and all steps taken to contain corruption went nowhere. The deep rooted corruption spreads its tentacles to unanticipated areas of the society. For instance take the case of lecturer post approving bureaucrats in various universities in Kerala and elsewhere. For long these offices were corruption free, nevertheless they started asking money from colleges and candidates for the posts to be got approved. While the candidates spend several lakh for being get appointed the contention of these bureaucrats is that why candidates could not pay an additional one lakh for getting the post approved.

The ordinary people, therefore, should determine to disallow corruption. We must vow not to bribe the ministers and administrators to get the job done. The governments of Centre and State should take immediate action to end corruption at least in its offices. Let the young generation breathe in fresh air free from the pollution of corruption.


K A Solaman

"Tatvamasi", writer should not be so cruel

Writer, speaker, social critic, Dr. Sukumar Azhikode is apparently concerned about media coverage given to politicians of late. While covering Rauf's enunciation, Kunhalikutty channel show, R B Pillai’s Anwarsseri model showdown at Kottarakkara, Azhikode has received little attention from lens men. This is why he filed a defamation case against cine star Mohanlal. Azhikode alleges that the actor called him a mentally unstable person. Azhikode then served a legal notice to Mohanlal, asking him to apologize or face legal action. Nevertheless the actor has not issued a legal notice to Azhikode for he being called "kankalam" by the latter.

Azhikode’s aversion to Mohanlal is notorious as Lal out rightly refused demand of Azhikode asking Lal to do something and not do something else. When many celebrities endorse the sale of gold and liquor Azhikode targeting Lal is doubtful. Why Azhikode cannot ask Mammootty to do something suited to his wish? Azhikode would never direct Mammootty as Mammootty is the CPM official faction favourite. He therefore, maintains a special ilk to Mammootty . Mohanlal-Azhikode case is unlikely to yield good result other than a little inappropriate media coverage. Counsels for both parties might make a good buck by extending the case of ten or twenty years.

"Tatvamasi", writer should not be so cruel to one of the most famous actors of the country and recipient of several national awards.

K A Solaman

Congress should checkout irresponsible remarks of its leaders

Congress MP K Sudhakaran achieved what he intended to gain-the media coverage. People thought he was landed in trouble and is going to face action from Kerala Police and Delhi Police for alleging corrupt practices of the country’s judiciary. Now he made a somersault by denying his earlier statement and his assertion against an unnamed Supreme Court judge. Now it is the turn of country’s police to close the file opened for hasty action. The witness to a bribe of Rs 21 lakh becomes no witness after one week. The skin thickness of the present day politicians is high.

The visual media should be more vigil to air announcement of unscrupulous politicians hereinafter to avoid further embarrassment among public. The Congress party should warn its leaders like Sudhakaran to make such irresponsible remarks against the judiciary.

K A Solaman

Pillai's arrest

R Balakrishna Pillai's new petition to trial court to avert arrest is a laughing stock. Seemingly in the country of Kottarakkara, Indian Supreme Court has no jurisdiction! Mr Pillai, Kerala Congress men and the Congress men will decide when to surrender and where.

The Supreme Court has, indeed, denied the opportunity for Pillai to faint in court and get admitted in Medical Trust hospital, Kochi.

K A Solaman

BOT camels in Congress

Admittance of A P Abdullakutty to the Congress resembles the age old act of giving space to camel. Kutty started questioning veteran Congress leaders like V M Sudheeran. Sharp criticism by Abdullakutty against Sudheeran is not in the true sense. Building NH under BOT scheme is not suitable for Keralites and they do not support Kutty. BOT is a source for politicians and bureaucrats to book a huge sum. Abdullakutty would better rejoin Elamaram Kareem's party. There is no sufficient reason for Congress in Kerala to withdraw their stand against BOT highway.

As Sudheeran pointed out, "the BOT operators should not be allowed to rob the people of Kerala."

K A Solaman

Really a different Balan!

Quite curious to hear the Kerala state electricity Minister A K Balan announcing that Kerala has become a self sufficient state in electricity distribution. Probably scheme of Balan to replace all incandescent lamps by CFLs and all CFLs issued by KSEB damaged by this time may be the reason of Balan’s auto sufficiency. CFL revolution is a scam and is to be probed.

Balan adds load shedding, voltage problems and increase tariff do not apply now, and recently KSEB had decided to avoid 10 rupees per month for electricity meter charge. This was also first in the history by avoiding current income. Kerala was the only State giving low price electricity to consumers, according to him. Apparently his conclusion is at the end of the LDF regime and that the election is in sight. And if the people fooled by Balan and his coterie elect them for the next time a cumulative increase may be carried out in the next year. Poor people with little memory!

K A Solaman

God is surprised at mankind!

God is surprised at mankind because of the following reasons
Reason 1: Man gets bored in childhood, he wishes to grow up and then longs to be a child.
Reason 2: He loses his health to make money and then loses his money to restore his health.
Reason 3: He thinks anxiously about future, forgetting the present. So he lives neither in future nor in present.
Reason 4: He lives as if he will never die, but die as if he has never lived.


K A Solaman

Overhauling of Indian Judicial system

Many people oppose the Arundhati Roy’s opinion when it comes to "Maoist Gandhians with guns" or "Kashmir is the part of Pakistan". However, her observation about Indian judicial contains a little water. No doubt the country's judicial system should be overhauled to obtain justice to ordinary people. Judicial process see delayed justice, not only justice denied but the litigant is punished.

Current system of the judicial forum, if transaction colonial or not, is another question, but people refrain from asking for help from the Court because of unforeseen difficulties. If there is adequate money one can hire a senior lawyer and win the case. And if one has not sufficient money, he hires an average counsel then money as well as the case is lost. The rich and the influential alone win cases, is a tragic situation.

Further, comment by Arundhati that she would never support the Supreme Court order prohibiting street meetings is only to appease politicians who need interference with the peaceful life of ordinary people. Why can’t agitators prefer Minister Residences or compound of Secretariat or auditoriums for agitation that hinders the movement of ordinary people who are in search of livelihoods?
K A Solaman

Cancerous corruption in India

Former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's observation that corruption is a cancer engulfing the Indian policy-bureaucratic-judicial system and requires urgent treatment is a correct analysis. Corruption is really one of the biggest challenges facing the country. However his proposal of youth brigade as solution would materialise not immediate as older leaders not allow young people in politics. Furthermore, politicians, doing no work but earn a lot by political corruption, have increased much. Full-time politics without doing any should be discouraged.

Corruption in Judiciary is now everybody’s concern. Not only bribe the undue delay is disposing cases by the courts is a part of the corrupt practice. Court cases should be distributed to counsels in an equi-partition basis so that younger counsels should get an opportunity to earn their livelihood. It is a pity that when renowned counsels earn lakhs for a single appearance, young advocates hardly get Rs 1000 per month. A monthly stipend should be given by the government to all enrolled advocates and some job should be assigned to them.

Judicial corruption is one that ordinary people could never compromise. India would never become a developed country until corruption is checked in all walks of life. As Dr. Kalam stressed, cancerous situation of corruption engulfing judicial system is harmful for growth. For this severe disease the country needs sermon. But will that it launch?

K A Solaman

Actor Machhan Varghese

Actor Machhan Varghese is a commoner. Ordinary people like him much. His departure at 50 is too early and a loss for cinema of the ordinary people. By his exceptional skills, he obtained his rightful place in the hearts of people. His work in films like ‘MannarMathai speaking, Meesa Madhavan, Thenkasipattanam and others is dotingly remembered for years to come
K A Solaman

Enka veetu pillai under arrest

It is very interesting to see that Kalaignar TV belonging to Karunanidhi family carried out practically a black out of the arrest of A Raja. Raja is really just a scapegoat among black sheep, most of them from TN. Apparently for Kalaignar TV and Karunanidhi family, hiking crude oil prices, the formation of the DMK Committee to share seat and chances India to win the World Cup are more important than CBI grilling "enka veetu pillai".

Nevertheless JayaTV belonging to the friend of Purachi Thalaivi compensated the loss with a full time slot. Other channels in the country, especially Kerala channels making all time blast with tittle-tattle of Kunhappa-Rauf ‘pennu case, can seek more lessons from TN how to highlight a particular news and delete the other.

K A Solaman

A year cross for Indian Railway

What Lalu Prasad Yadav has not achieved with Indian Railway Mamatha Banerji, present railway Minister, reached and only too miserably. The shocking incident of a 23 year old woman was allegedly raped in a train running and suspected of having been thrown; leaving her with several serious injuries is more a year cross of Indian Railways to cherish. To collect the ticket charges and dump into the compartment of insecurity is apparently Indian Railway passenger custom. And the passenger in the compartment can be brutally attacked and killed. Indian Railway could not escape the crime for not providing a railway guard or a police man in the compartment.
The matter must be considered carefully and women under attack should be adequately compensated by the Indian Railway and the Government.
K A Solaman

How many cases we have seen?

Rising fuel and onion prices, soaring inflation, disorder in government hospitals and medical colleges, deteriorating law and order, inept education system and many others are not at all problems for Keralites. The Kunhappa-Rauf row is the only problem for them to forget all others including wealth amassment case of Sreenijan, son-in law in law of former CJ K G Balakrishnan.
The government of Kerala has officially endorsed a fresh police inquiry about the infamous ice-cream parlour case in which Kunhappa and Rauf are involved. Nevertheless one could not expect much from state police that has received a drubbing on the credibility count for bad investigation skills, corruption and overt linkages to the mafia here in the state.
Kunhappa-Rauf in hand in hand would say: how many cases we have seen?

K A Solaman