Love bug bitten Dr Kalam

Love has no age, no colour, no distance, no boundaries and no impossibilities. That is what I see in the love at 80 of the Missile Man Dr Kalam. No doubt this news is a thrilling experience to the whole world and it is a real pointer to the fact that man lives not only on science but on emotions too. The missile man appears more cheerful 'with a music of honey bee intoxicated'. Long Live Kalam, his Physics, his poems and his love.

K A Solaman

Midnight encounter

The midnight police encounter in which five men suspected of being involved in two bank robberies in Chennai were killed was shocking. When the police clearly outnumbered the robbers, what was the need to resort to the extreme move? Their failure to apprehend even one suspect alive gives cause for suspicion.

K.A. Solaman,

Alappuzha

The Hindu, dated 25 Feb 2012

Encounter killing

The encounter killing of five men, allegedly involved in bank robberies by the Chennai police is shocking. The whole episode resembles what happened in Gujarat in the case of Izrat Jahan case. When police force outnumbers the robbers why did the police resort to the extreme punishment? The Chennai police that killed the robbers should be brought under scanner and they should be subjected to lie detecting test.

If such encounters are permitted it would lead to the wiping out of political opponents by use of police force. The failure of the police to catch anyone of the robbers live is suspicious and a thorough investigation about the whole episode is needed.

K A Solaman

Equidistant policy of NSS

If anyone still keeps apprehension about the ‘equidistant policy’ of Nair Service Society (NSS) that will be over by the Piravom by-election. According to NSS a defeat for the ruling front at the Piravom by-election would lead to political instability and may lead to the collapse of the present system. As the NSS do not like this political turmoil they have decided vote for Anoop Jacob at Piravom. NSS is also cautious about a possible mid-term poll that may lead to huge waste of money to the public exchequer.

Still the NSS speak about ‘equidistance’ in the interest of the community and the nation

K A Solaman

Road safety authority in sleep.

The number of accidents on NH 47 is going to be zeroed soon not with any significant measures taken by the Road safety department of the State but with the renumbering of the road. The national Highway 47 soon would figure in another name.

The pedestrians and vehicle owners are, in fact, find a tough time to commute on this road. Road side vendors and hoardings are innumerable which make safety driving without a solution. Almost all junctions are occupied with fish vendors making the scene unsightly. The authorities take no action to clean the road sides. The school children are the most sufferers not only of the overcrowding of the road side but of the filthy words used by the fish and vegetable vendors. Would anyone take care to send these vendors to places meant for them and thereby to reduce the congestion on the road side?

The safety of drivers and pedestrians should be the top priority of the authority in charge, especially now that no new highways projects are under consideration. The government should implement infallible system to reduce the number of deaths on our roads and to develop road safety plans and subject those plans to review.

K A Solaman

Antony’s gesture on 2G verdict

The trial court order which held Home Minister P Chidmbaram not indulged in any criminal conspiracy in the 2G case has been welcomed by Defence Minister A K Antony and he was seen very pleased with it. However, Subramanian Swamy has again moved the case with Supreme Court challenging the trial court order. According to Swamy, Chidambaram is equally guilty like former Telecom Minister A Raja for allowing telecom companies to off-load shares to foreign firms.

Everyone is, therefore, anxious to know the gesture of Antony when SC pronounces its order.

K A Solaman

Rift between CPI and CPM

If anyone thinks that the present rift between CPI and CPM is ideological, he is in fool’s paradise. It is all due to the new found friendship of CPI leaders with CPM veteran V S Achuthanandan. The most respectable leader has become the worst foe of neo-liberalistic leaders of CPM and that is what surfaced as the row over ‘event management’ or something of the sort. What is wrong in the words ‘event’ and ‘management’ when workers of the party do similar job for the summit?

The real loser in the present CPM imbroglio is former Finance Minister and the CPM ideologist Dr T M Thomas Isaac. Isaac was sent to corner by the official faction just because of his unsuccessful reckoning about the future of the party. The learned should also fail and that is what one see in the case of Isaac.


No doubt, the leaders of the CPI and CPM in the state have created confusion about the relationship between the LDF parties and it is not temporary as someone think. Any further humiliation or action against VS would result in extra rift in the Left Front.

K A Solaman

Unkindest cut by Marxists

It is one of the unkindest cuts against the veteran leader V S Achuthanandan by the Marxists to call him as ‘class enemy’. It was former Kerala Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem, started calling VS as ‘class enemy’ and after years it was repeated even by low profile leaders of the CPM. The DYFI Secretary Swaraj demanding ‘capital punishment’ for VS has arisen from the rancour he accumulated by Achuthanandan’s statement denouncing his ‘fatherless’ comment.

The saddest thing is that all in the party had turned into flatterers of the secretary, who will reward them in future for telling off VS. Thanks to one Krishnadas, for his honest telling against the sycophantic approach of official faction leaders of the CPM.

The conglomerate of the official faction had done VS injustice by passing such repulsive remarks in the party meet without giving him an opportunity to be heard and that is too after getting sixty eight seats in the State Assembly only by Achuthanandan’s magic. It is the “unkindest cut of all,"and is never going to be pardoned by vast majority in the party who love VS and call him as ‘eye, or liver’.

K A Solaman

Believe Son and not Father!

Seemingly the Kerala Marxists  are busy reading the famous work ‘Life of Christ “by Bishop Fulton J Sheen after the poster row in connection with their State summit. And it is the season for Kerala Marxists to study the life and work of Jesus Christ.  After M V Jayarajan and Pinarayi, veteran leader VS also came endorsing Jesus.

However,   trouble follows them and the latest is the row over a look alike picture of Jesus Christ's The Last Supper. No doubt the picture is controversial as it showed US President Barack Obama in the centre  flanked by "disciples" Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, L.K. Advani,  Oommen Chandy and even  AK Antony. No doubt the Marxist party has hurt the sentiments of believers and owes an apology to the believers.

The CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan’s statement that party workers have no role in preparing the posters is an insult to its cadres. If son of God Jesus is their new pathfinder, do Marxists endorse the God Himself?

K A Solaman

Fingers pointing each other.

Both Defence Minister A K Antony and Army chief Gen V K Singh put the blame for the age controversy on the Army, saying it sat on the problem for 36 years. This seems rather curious as both Antony and Singh are the part of the Indian Army. As Antony has said the matter was with the Supreme Court and its verdict in this regard would be final and binding, then why he is making repeated comments on the subject. Has he got any intention to invite the attention of SC judges? I think the the Delhi winter has influenced Antony much and that is why he is making repeated comments. The General has seemingly submitted his application at entry stage with year of birth as 1950 as the requirement then was that. Now only he realized the advantage being it at 1951. The year 1950 or 51 will become meaningless after one year then why the General is making such a hue and cry over his date of birth? The General might not have taken the matter with the SC. K A Solaman