‘Rabri Devis of Lalu ‘ will rule Kerala civic bodies

Welcome to hear that as many as 489 grama panchayats in Kerala will have women presidents once the elections to the three-tier local bodies are completed. This will make the role of women in administration quite significant. This 50 percent reservation for women would also reduce corruption in many local bodies.
However the major handicap is the discovery of suitable women for contesting the election. Most of the candidates will be ‘Rabris of Lalu’.

K A Solaman

Happy Onam to all world citizens!

Sack Pawar for dishonoring Apex Court order.

It is time to sack India’s Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar from his office for the scant regard shown by him towards Apex court order asking government to distribute food grain free of cost to the poorest. The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to distribute food grain free not to all people but to the poorest instead of allowing it to rot due to lack of storage facility. It cannot be ruled that there is rampant corruption in Public Distribution System (PDS) besides rotting of food grain in FCI godowns. Antodaya Anna Yojna, though aimed at BPL people, its purpose is not yet met.

If Pawar’s department is not able to implement SC order he along Minister of State K V Thomas should step-down from their posts and hand over charge to efficient leaders to implement the court order.

K A Solaman

Unattainable dream

After the spoilsport for about 10 years ruining Kerala Collegiate Education, the Government of Kerala has decided to sanction 1,599 posts of teachers in aided colleges in the State. All guest faculties working in various colleges now can search for other income building business like lottery selling or serving in petrol bunks. The aided college managements in Kerala are enthralled at the chunk of donation they likely to get from these 1599 appointments. Assuming Rs 50 lakh for single post private college managements in Kerala are likely to get about 800 crore rupees.

Is there any management in Kerala who appoint a candidate without a price? Is there any interview board constituted for these appointments do their duty without guilt of conscience? Has our Government machinery any mechanism to control the wide-spread corruption in these colleges? For poor and intelligent candidates with NET and Ph D, teaching in private aided colleges, where salary is paid from State exchequer, is a never realizable dream.

K A Solaman

The last judgment in Newmann college!

When the Mahatma Gandhi University Syndicate revoked the suspension of Prof. T.J. Joseph, who prepared the controversial question paper that resulted in his hand being chopped by fundamentalists, it is unfortunate on the part o Newmann College Management to go on with action leading to the dismissal of the teacher from the college. Prof Joseph has made apology to the general public and then why the management is so harsh in further punishing him? ‘Forgive and be kind’ is the greatest Christian teaching and a college running on such principles should never plunge into ulterior deeds.
I fear the craving for getting 20-40 lakh as donation from a fresh recruit is the crucial issue for any management to throw away an incumbent staff member on asinine matters.

K A Solaman

Media should report Tharoor’s next adventure too!

The former Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor is apprehensive over the media coverage given to him and Sunanda Pushkar. Who is Sunanda Pushkar? The media reports in April second week this year exposed that Sunanda was Tharoor’s fiancé and she had 18 percent stake in the Rendezvous consortium, new sponsor for IPL from Kochi. Tharoor then said he had no relation with Pushkar, but media reports said otherwise. Sunanda would be his third wife after Thilothama and Christa, according to media. Now it has been convincingly proved that what media reported was correct. Tharoor and Sunanda are about to marry and roaming from temple to temple to run off from the curses of his former wives and children.

Despite the fact that it is Tharoor’s freedom to keep his personal secrets intact he has to remember that he is an MP and has to stick on his words. Why tell off media for doing their duty? While ordinary people lead a contented life with one wife and one family their leaders running woman after women is matter of nosiness for many and media has the obligation to give what people need. Tharoor could, of course, keep on his soul searching with Sunanda Pushkar but never ask media to do this and that. And the media should never shy away from reporting possible adventures of Tharoor after Sunanda.

K A Solaman

Ban on roadside meetings

Seemingly any disapproval from the High Court to the LDF Government in Kerala is an added attraction for latter and its ministers continue reign the State without any sense of right and wrong.

Rejecting the review petition filed by the Government what the High Court observed was a severe bolt for the State Government. And when the court convinced that there was no need to review the earlier order, it is a foolish act for the Government to file appeal in the Supreme Court. The present HC verdict is for the people and any attempt to overthrow it by Ruling Front or Opposition is unreasonable.

K A Solaman

Poisoned stream

The high level of pollution in Kerala’s backwaters and lakes is the result of ill-planned farming practices. In Kuttanad, for instance, tons of pesticide are sprayed in the fields in the name of ‘crop protection’, without anyone realizing that the long-term damages outweigh the immediate benefits. Consequently, land, air and water have been contaminated and people forced to flee to other places. It has also been reported that pesticide pollution in Vembanad’s backwaters is higher than the bacterial pollution caused by the lack of proper sanitation in the area.

A paradigm shift is, therefore, required as far as the agricultural practices in Kerala are concerned. Perhaps switching to organic farming can improve the situation. A comprehensive action plan must be charted out to ensure that organic farming practices are strictly enforced across the state.


K.A. Solaman, The Telegraph 14Aug

Ranjini is a daring beauty.

All the Chivas Regal writers in the eastern side of Vembanadu lake are seen united and formed a fighting brigade. Just see the lines written by them on the 11th and the 12th in the Express against a woman anchor of a reality show. The letters of Titus, Nebu and Parackal are in the same tune and it is the fate of these seasoned boozers to get humiliated from a woman of substance. Ranjini is a daring beauty.

K A Solaman

The perverted old fox still finds the grapes sour

Re “Changed idea” by Dr Titus Sankaramangalam(TNIE Aug 12). Idea can change someone’s life some time, not always. The perverted old fox still finds the grapes sour. Why do watch substandard live shows in channels and comment on the sheep-legged woman? Let she do her trade with what is called the ‘munglish’. A practicing doctor can be otherwise busy with his usual intake of 120 ml Chivas Regal along with a pack of nuts.

K A Solaman

Jai Hind TV film awards

Megastar Mammootty(call him Gigastar-who cares?) has bagged the best actor award, superstar Mohanlal has won Chalachitra Ratna award, actor Prithviraj has won the youth icon award (does it mean Mammootty and Lal lost their youth?) , Dileep secured most popular actor award and Lakshmi Rai won most popular actress award. And all these awards are from Jaihind Channel, a channel, hardly ever viewed by Congress men in Kerala.

MM Hassan, the managing director of Jai Hind TV, who announced the name of the winners, knows rather well the advantage of keeping these stars inspired for benefits his party likely to receive in the oncoming election. The youth icon award to Prithiraj is very relevant as he made a successful effort in making a reverse love model with elder Aiswarya Rai in ‘Ravan’.

The tragic part of the whole award declaration event is that Thilakan, the ace thespian, ousted from AMMA, did not find any place among award winning performers.

K A Solaman

Pollution in Kerala water bodies.

High level of pollution in the backwaters and lakes in Kerala is due to the senseless mode of irrigation in most places. In Kuttanadu alone tons of pesticide are sprayed in fields for what is called crop protection, nevertheless, the damages made out of it outweigh the benefits. The atmosphere air along with water in lakes and rivers is contaminated and people with breathing disorder are forced to abandon the place. Pesticide pollution in Vembanad backwaters is higher when compared to contamination by bacterial pollution due to lack of proper sanitation. Irrational use of insect killer is the habit of some farmers in Kuttanadu and Palakkad and that results pollution in water bodies. A paradigm shift is, therefore, needed in the agriculture pattern of farmers. It is time to shift from present form of chemical farming to organic one.

A comprehensive action plan is to be foreseen for strict implementation of organic farming to save the water bodies in the State.

K A Solaman

Corporate marriage

Infosys founder Narayana Murthy's son Rohan Murthy has been engaged to Lakshmi Venu, the daughter of TVS Motor Managing Director Venu Srinivasan. The parents of Rohan and Lakshmi are very happy. The date of marriage is potted for the guess of all the professionals in both the companies. And one who guesses correctly the date will be given a trip to Silicon Valley along with one year salary in advance!

Hereafter Lakshmy can operate her Infosys laptop and Rohan can ride his TVS scooty!

K A Solaman

Panel of forgers.

The forged letters sent last week in the name of Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan asking Chidambaram not to consider granting Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre to state police officials reveal that it is not all well with Kerala police in tackling corruption. The Police force that is responsible for tackling corruption is also a source of corruption.

More interesting is the creators of forged letters do not even know the spelling of the word ‘panel’. It is printed ‘pannel’ instead of panel in the bogus letter. The makers of the letter who are able put the signatures Chief Minister and Home Minister must have to know the spelling of ‘panel’

K A Solaman

Medical management muddle

The argument that Education Minister M.A. Baby is responsible for the crisis in the professional education sector cannot be ruled out. All the eleven private medical college managements who collected huge capitation fee from students are about to pay back the money.

Medical education is a big business in Kerala where one could see a nexus between ruling political parties and the management association. The entrance examination conducted by the management association was always a farce, nevertheless, it continued with the blessing of the piebald rulers.
Whatever be the outcome of the present verdict of the HC, the Medical Management muddle will continue for a few years more. The Management greed will stop only when the parents convince that medical profession is not alone the best but there are a few others more worthy than that.

K A Solaman

BSNL in red for first time

The inevitable has happened. The Govt. of Indian owned company BSNL is in red for the first time. The loss of Rs 1,822.65 crore for fiscal 2009-10 is not alone due to hard competition from private players, but due to the callous attitude of its employees.

For quite long the land line users of this company were a dejected group because of the failure of service by the company. Every day at every minute innumerable complaints are registered about fault in the land line but they are not attended by the company. Most of the subscribers opted to mobile just because of the deficiency in service by the company. The worst is about to happen and the offices of this company would turn out as places of protest by trade unions and political outfits against the Central Government.

The BSNl could think of making profit by selling their land and property now at a high cost which were once procured at a throwaway price.

K A Solaman