Stenchy gesture

Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam taking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for 'Swachhta hi Seva' is a good gesture but he wiping  paan and gutkha stained walls with bare hands is a very poor show.   Handling filth with bare hands  invites  the risk of certain contageous diseseas. In addition, it gives wrong notion to students taking part in Swachchata hi-Seva. To remove stain, filth and waste one has to invariably use brush, gloves and shovel.

Keep India clean slogan is a laudable one and should be welcomed. However, the gimmicks like cleaning filth with bare hands and minister's staff putting filth in advance enabling him to clear it with bare hands, are intolerable. If minister Kannanthanam  wants to see real filth, keep open his eyes while occassionally passing through NH 66 in Kerala. The entire road-side is piled up.with waste by vendors. In Kerala fish vendors have abandoned fish market for quite long and assembled on highways making the entire reach filthy and stenchy

K A Solaman

Solar Scam Report

The Solar Comission report regarding the solar scam was handed over to the Chief Minister. This detailed report was welcomed by former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and prime accused Saritha S  Nair. Hopefully, this report will 
meet the same fate of oblivion like the previous ones in the history of Kerala.

The Commission told, the Chief Minister would reveal the details of the report. This will unlikely to happen. As the Vengara poll is in the offing, the CM may reveal some silly stuff from the report and not anything serious. Oommen Chandy is a clever man and if Pinarayi dares to reveal anything serious against, Chandy will open his suitcase to verify photos, CDs, pen drives and what else, to keep mouth of his adversaries shut.

Certain media publishing the photo footage of Oommen chandy and Saritha S Nair with equal importance is highly interesting.

K A Solaman

Kannanthanam funny

A London returned preist while addressing local people in Alappuzha coastal area once said: The children of London are beautiful like red apple and not like these wormy children sitting here. The trouble then started was amicably settled by an immediate apology by the priest.

Likewise Union Minister Alphons Kannanthanam speaks non-sense in Odisha and corrects  in Kerala saying it was a joke cracked by him there. Kannanthanam said that his comments made in Odisha on beef was meant to be funny and not meant to be on record. According to him when good beef is available in foreign countries, there is no need for them to come here and eat the meat of lean animals.

This is an outright insult to Indian cattle especially cow because a major chunk of beef to foregn countries are exported from India. It is a major attraction for foreigners to eat good beef while India than cold storaged poor quality beef available in their country.

The main complaint of Kannanthanam is that there is none in Kerala to enjoy good humour. This is true as there is no takers for his joke in the tune; even when there is hike in petrol prices, the cost of commodities are not going up here!

K A Solaman

Craze for MBBS course

Most of our parents still believe that  only medical courses have status.Even learned people are mis-guided and fall into the trap of MBBS/BDS courses. They feel that their children will ensure a prosperous future if they enter a medical college. They are ready to spend several lakhs to make their children doctors. This belief has led to a prolific increase in the number of self-financed, self-styled  professional colleges. Most of the self financing medical colleges provide sub-standard education and produce under-qualified doctors. What the parents fail to realize is that unless their wards have a real aptitude for the MBBS course they can never become successful doctors. Even bright students find it difficult complete the course succesfully.

The society also needs other professionals like teachers, journalists, artists, dancers, actors, singers and chef others. A job of a chef in a five ster hotel earning Rs 3 lakh per month is not of low profile. Some of the doctors  have given up their profession to become artists, film actors, playback singers etc. This proves that not only they did not have the aptitude to become doctors but they have also prevented the ones with the real aptitude for the profession. It time for our parents to think more logically and sensibily their wards are not tortured.

K A Solaman