Pollution-free India

When Union Road Transport. and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari says 'clean, pollution- free India be a priority now' he intends only automobile pollution. Other sources of pollution are immaterial to any minister.

In Kerala in the months of November and December, all temples and other worship places produce high sound pollution but none is bothered to check despite a number of court orders. The entire National Highway sides are occupied by fish and meat vendors polluting the entire street and they posing traffic threat, is not at all a problem for authorities. Latrine wastes are dumped on road sides violating all the rules relating pollution control. House boat wastes along with waste oil thrown into back waters make it difficult for water organisms to survive. The local self government bodies that are bound to keep the environment clean do nothing to control pollution.

So it is high time to act judiciously on checking all sorts of pollution

K A Solaman

K A Solaman Blog: Equity investment

K A Solaman Blog: Equity investment: No doubt, the equity growth in the country is abysmally low. The reason is not alone the lack of interest among investors but the she...

Equity investment

No doubt, the equity growth in the country is abysmally low. The reason is not alone the lack of interest among investors but the sheer uncertainty prevailing in the market. Out of the 60000 plus company shares only 100 to 200 shares are traded in stock markets. Majority of the shares are in dormant state and some companies even  do not exist. There is no check to control the fraudulent   promoters of certain non-existing companies.

Unless and until some thing is done by the government to check investors' loss the stock market would continue as the foul play turf of  foreign market players where the net losers are average Indian investors. It is time to make equity investment trustworthy. 

K A Solaman

Naidu is wrong

Parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu saying that "all country men want  a Ram Mandir in Ayodhya" is wrong . It is only  VHP members and a few hard core Hindus wish in this direction. Ram Temple is a bone of contention in the country and any thoughtless act to construct the temple  would make BJP rule murckiyar. The VHP plan of gathering stones for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is likely to turn out as a threat to the communal fabric of the country.

Any action to support the act of VHP would become detrimental to the  the nation.

-K A Solaman

Cherian Philip’s betrayal

Marxist sympathiser and former Congress leader Cherian Philip seeking pardon for his involvement in the  bringing down of  veteran Congress leader K Karunakaran as the Chief Minister of Kerala in 1994,  is only an attempt to get media attention. Cherian, of late, with his Face Book posts target many leaders of the Congress party but none are bothered to attend him. For Congress party  Cherian is a wayward boy now doing kitchen work in certain strong  Left households to get a berth in the next Assembly election. In the last election his somersault to get a berth in Assembly with the assistance of LDF misfired.

If Cherian is to continue his betrayal stories he has to tell more and the most significant is his betrayal of  A K Antntony, his mentor. In each back stab of Cherian, Antony might have remembered the innumerable black teas and cinema tickets he brought for when Cherian was the orderly of him..Of course for Antony, Cherian is an epitome of betrayal and sheer discontentment.

K A Solaman

New Formula

 Pollution in and around Delhi is a serious problem. But the state government's decision to permit only even and odd numbered cars to ply on alternate days is illogical. This would persuade people to buy another car, resulting in a minimum of two cars in every household. What the government needs to do is to build a robust public transport system. Banning cars that are more than 15 years old is not enough. Instead, strict pollution checks should be instituted. The NGT's decision of banning the registration of new and 10-year-old diesel vehicles is a step in the right direction. School and college students should be asked to use bicycles instead of motor vehicles. In certain Indian Institute of Technology campuses, even professors are known to use bicycles, which is praiseworthy.

Yours faithfully,

K.A. Solaman,

Alappuzha, Kerala
The Telegraph, Calcutta dated 16-12-15

Uninvite row

The otherwise happy first time visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kerala has been made cheerless by SNDP Yogom Secretary Vellappally Natesan. He flouted the protocol by withdrawing invitation to the Chief Minister of Kerala for the function Modi to inaugurate. The whole episode may not be with the knowledge of the PM for he may have no displeasure to share the dias with the CM.

The whole controversy created by Vellappally has become a topic of discussion about the prospects of BJP in Kerala but seemingly Vellappally would become a thorn in the flesh for BJP in the immediate future.

-K A Solaman

Butterfly!

Needs good advisers

SNDP Yogom secretary Vellappally Natesan needs good advisers as his present outbursts are unbecoming of a person who leads an organisation that preaches "One caste, One religion and One God" for all world generations. His latest adventure to ridicule Kerala CM Oommen Chandy has boomeranged. It is unwise in a State to organise a function for PM of India , private or public, with out the presence of it's Chief Minister. This sort of thoughtless act will not be permitted in states like TN, Bengal, UP or Odisha. It is also the responsibility of PM to avoid such functions which augment communal hatred.

The creative action against "intolerance" can be performed not only through discussion but also through action.
K A Solaman

Lost glitter

Man's craze for yellow metal is well known. Women folks of Kerala and elsewhere are addicted to gold. They often think that the secret of their beauty is gold ornaments. Since then gold has become the criterion to show one's wealth women with huge possession of gold ornaments are centres of attraction for many in wedding like functions. Exploiting the addiction of women, the merchants in Kerala, Dubai etc had made a huge profit by way selling gold. Mushroomed gold showrooms in and around the country indicate huge profit earned by merchants of gold business.

In this back drop the bullion prices falling sharply in the domestic markets is a welcome gesture. If gold is available at a throwaway prize none would pay heavily in gold market and no woman dare to wear gold ornament. They will shift to diamond and platinum and that too will end up in later misery.

Gold merchants making huge profit by selling and buying gold have to sort out some other means to maintain their profit. World countries investing in gold would search for other options to maintain their financial stability.

K A Solaman

Possible disaster

It is interesting to see that RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and his company are going to change the governance process of the banks. As the bank stocks have plummeted to their bottom some sort of action is highly necessary. Nevertheless, if the past work of Rajan is taken into account it is unlikely for the banks to gain any thing substantially in the immediate future.

Presently NPA resulted from bad loans took the banks to such a deplorable bottom. Unless action is taken against those officials who are responsible, issue of bad loans would continue and the banks would nosedive to imminent disaster.

-K A Solaman

Communal malvirus

The attack of communal malvirus is in its culmination in the state as the SNDP Yogam secretary started spitting venom with his 'Munnetta yathra'. I wonder why the people of Kerala have not yet entered into a communal revolt by this time.

It is the left and right political parties of Kerala that had given such a huge dimension to Vellappally. All political leaders who queued before Vellapally's house for his ' karimeen fry' hospitality are responsible for this present imbroglio. The police case registered against Vellappally would give him more exposure and the case would end up now where. All paid TV Channels will give necessary boost to Vellappally.

In fact, a never mind attitude would have resulted Vellappally to nothing , nevertheless the politicians and channels are determined to make him a great crusader.

K A Solaman