Quick bucks for private colleges!

Many of the affiliated colleges in Kerala are in killing spree in disguise for the appointment of teachers to their various faculties. One of the major handicaps the managements face with, is the lack of NET/JRF qualified candidates with liquid cash in tune with 20 or 30 lakhs. Then, came news from some flip-side doors of the UGC stating that candidates with M Phil can also apply for the posts. On hearing this there was a heavy rush for purchase of application forms from the office-counters of private colleges and it attracted some quick bucks to the managements. The managements were also happy of getting an immediate fortune without many hardships. If demand is high the auction amount is also high.

But unfortunately, soon arrived a clarification from the UGC that candidates should be NET qualified for appointment, sending the management to an immoderate despair. However, the Mundassery II of Kerala is contemplating to dilute the UGC stipulations in collusion with all gluttonous managements.

Will the Managements pay back the application money in tune with Rs 500 or 750 they collected from candidates for one-day clearance sale of application forms? Will the Government check up the rank lists of candidates waiting for appointment in these colleges? Is there any management in Kerala, still waiting to appoint from their lists because of non-compliance of candidates with adequate fund? Will the Government ask private college managements to publish the rank lists on their website, as PSC do, on the very next day after the interview? There should be some corroboration in the acts of private college managements in Kerala because salary to the privileged ones appointed in these colleges are paid from State exchequer.

K A Solaman

Fresh debate on lottery!

Debate on lottery by Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac and Congress MLA V D Sathhesan was a past story. Sneakily Satheesan has handed over his batten to Isaac’s own Cabinet head, the Chief Minister for a fresh debate. When Isaac argues it is Chief Minister’s attempt to protect the Central leaders, the Chief Minister stands in denial.

It is a matter of great relief to see that there is someone in the state to protect the illiterate poor from lottery looters and those who put red carpets to those lottery thugs. All lottery promoters and sellers except the handicapped and the aged hapless should be put in jail for making public nuisance.

K A Solaman

Good news from Myanmar

Report from Myanmar is a matter of relief for the rest of the world. Aung San Suu Kyi has been released by the military rulers of Myanmar. Presumably she could lead her party for the imminent Myanmar general election if the military rulers do not impose further restrictions. Most probably Myanmar’s calming posture by releasing Aung San Suu Kyi was the outcome of U S President Barack Obama stance on the issue. Obama has personally supported for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi during his recent visit to India.

It is good for Myanmar if the rulers of that country so decide to demonstrate faith in Democracy and thereby to avoid further diplomatic isolation from all world countries.

K A Solaman

Community policing at Mararikulam!

I fully agree with Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.s comment that community participation is important to combat the growing threat of terrorism and ensuring law and order in the state.In fact, police displaying friendly temperament and compassion towards public is a dream of the society. Nevertheless, one cannot see any kind of community policing or empathy from the police at Mararikulam when the Presiding officer , with magisterial power, of booth number one of ward number ten of Mararikulam North Panchayat was brutally assaulted by local goons. The assaulted woman’s oral deposition alone is necessary to arrest the culprits, but the police was playing hide and seek all the time to rescue the perpetrators. Has the Election Commission no responsibility to protect the poll officials who are under attack from criminals?

If this is the approach of authority to ensure law and order the State it would take another decade to accomplish the concept of community policing. Law enforcers turning into mute spectators or law offenders are the blight of the present time.

K A Solaman
The New Indian Express, 6 Nov 2010

Humble wish of a restless soul!

I wonder why Hindi film actor Dimple Kapadia needs to act alongside Mammootty in a Malayalam film. May be she wishes to become more young by acting along with Mammootty. I presume the ‘restless soul’ in her will not meet the requirement. Ms Kapadia can send her daughter, if she had one, to act with Mammootty as he prefers teen aged girls for the same. The Malayalam film-goers have created a good taste in viewing sixty plus stars acting with fair looking girls of tender age.

Further, Kapadia’s latest venture Bombay Mittai is not likely to get much fanfare in Kerala as there are only a few takers for the UP politician Amar Singh who acts against Dimple in the film.

K A Solaman

‘Poet from the gutters’ does not need ceremonial firing.

The ‘poet of the orphans’ has to wait one more day in cold storage for his last rites. Election to local bodies and the inconvenience of the cultural minister, are the reasons for the delay! Undoubtedly it is an insult to a dead man’s corpus. It is quite distressing to see that poet Ayyappan has to tranquilly wait to get opened his way to ‘ Santhikavadam’ and there from to eternal joy.

Hereinafter, celebrities who wish to die, die only after consultation with the cultural stalwarts of Kerala. Who said the ‘poet from the gutters’ need ceremonial firing from shot less guns?

K A Solaman

Peaceful election is a past story.

Both phases of civic poll in Kerala witnessed a high percentage of voter turn out. Thanks to fifty percent reservation given to women by the Act of Parliament. High turnout, however, doest not reflect the political consciousness of majority sector instead it reveals interest of women folk to become policy makers of local bodies. One hopes the entry of more women into politics may reduce rampant corruption in local bodies and result in a social change.

Nevertheless, the unprecedented disarray in polling stations does not give a clean chit to police force and election authorities who are bound to accomplish a peaceful election. Peaceful election in Kerala has become a past story.

K A Solaman

Try a reverse appeal, Mr Union MInister

Union Minister Vayalar Ravi, K C Venugopal M P, V D Satheesan, PT Thomas, A A Shukkur and even Shafi Parambil ask Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan to dismiss from the Cabinet Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac for allowing Megha Distributors to sell Bhutan lottery in Kerala illegally. Possibly this order may never materialize. Instead, for a plausible outcome of their demand they should ask Thomas Isaac to dismiss Achuthanandan from the Cabinet for unpredictably complying with the requirements of the future Marxist CM and his company.

K A Solaman

Nagaraja to craft a box-office hit!

Marketing temples and worship places using film actors has become a recent development. Latest in this direction is the visit of actor Mallika Sherawat at Mannarasala temple and it attracted much media coverage. She dons the role of a snake-woman in the forthcoming film ‘Hisss’. The Sree Nagaraja Temple at Mannarasala received a face lift with Sherawat’s visit and it is the responsibility of Mannarasala deity Nagaraja to make the film a box-office hit!.

Whether it is Chakalathukaavu, or Kandamangalm shrine, the temple committees arrange Naaripooja(women worship) with film actresses and look for a fortune. And this trend is likely to progress in future.

K A Solaman

Antony's son a hero!

It is highly interesting to see Defence Minister A.K. Antony's son Ajith Paul Antony is all set to make his debut as a hero in a Rs.15 crore multi-lingual film "Oberoi". In fact it is a wise decision by Antony’s son not to hurt his father by entering into politics. And when most politicians, even veterans, try hard to take their sons back into the party, Antony could take a sigh of relief as his son did not give him such botheration. Furthermore, it is unbearable for every father to see his son being shown up by fellow politicians in the long run for plum posts in the party.

Nevertheless, Ajith Paul should remember that tinsel world is murkier that politics and Antony, though Defence Minister, is not that much wise as some of his colleagues, to amass wealth for his son to play and lose in Malluwood.or elsewhere.

K A Solaman

Children of fake gurus!

Thousands of tiny tots on Vidyarambham day were taken to the world of letters on all parts of Kerala by gurus extending from literary luminaries, cultural leaders and eminent teachers. Interestingly some of the gurus were hard core politicians with wicked Saraswathi on their tongue (name one?). Will these children ever get through in life?

K A Solaman

All party charlatans

Charlatans who denounce the honorable High Court are present not only in Marxist party but in Congress too. For instance look at comment by KSU president Shafi parambil criticizing the directives issued by Kerala High Court. The court has asked the police to conduct an independent enquiry into the authenticity of students admitted in all aided schools. I can’t find anything wrong with court observation as almost all managements are corrupt in admission of students and appointment of teachers. Many school-college managements are conducting auction for selection of teachers.

At present there is no way to check the corrupt practices of school-college managements, They even prepare a dozen or more rank lists for appointment of teachers and their agents contact the candidates in person for demanding donation in tune with several lakhs. And if the stipulation is met the candidate is appointed. I blame those government nominees and subject experts who leap on knees before the corrupt managements and sign a dozen blank papers enabling the management to prepare rank lists as they wish. These managements keep several fake lists regarding students admitted to various classes.

Shafi Parmbil, unlike hardcore politicians, should show a little respect to judicial forums.

K A Solaman

Now it is Joseph’s turn to advise Pillai

Kerla Congress(B) Chairman R Balakrishna Pillai advises P J Joseph, Chairman of the other Kerala Congress faction that Joseph should have followed the example set by Manjalamkuzhy Ali, who relinquished his post as MLA while departing the LDF.
According to Pillai the merger of KC(Mani) and KC (Joseph) went against political morality.

Now it is the turn of Joseph to advise Pillai that the latter might have avoided his infamous fainting in the court room when an order to put him in jail, was passed. Honest persons speaking about morals are very interesting to listen in.

K A Solaman

Bhutan Government should identify a meaningful business other than lottery.

Like many other court cases, in Megha case too the Government of Kerala failed miserably. A few of the ministers also thronged for this outcome. The Division Bench dismissed the writ appeal too filed by the state government relating to the case. The result of the case is as expected.

However for Megha Distributors, it will be a tough time to sell their lottery tickets printed in Sivkasi or else where in the State. The lottery buyers have learned to recognize what is good and what is wrong about lottery business.

The Bhutan rulers should so decide not to buy a small fortune by hoodwinking the uneducated working class of the small state of Kerala. They should identify some meaningful businesses to bring properity to their country.

K A Solaman

Candidates, what is there to chuckle this much?

Malayalees know how to laugh publically out of nothing. If anyone has doubt, look at the innumerable posters of 70000 plus candidates in the fray for local bodies’ election in Kerala on October 23 and 25. All candidates in colorful costumes featuring on posters are ‘laughing at’ the public with wide-opened mouth. What is there to chuckle this much?

K A Solaman

Ready to serve?

A record number of 70,915 candidates are in the fray for the elections to the local bodies in Kerala to be held on October 23 and 25. Last time around, the number of candidates was 54,043. This time it has gone up by a whopping 16872. Most of the candidates are women. I wonder why these contestants are waiting for the outcome of an election. They can start serving the people right away.
The Statesman, Oct 13, 2010

Oasis in desert hurts a hapless woman

The hapless woman here is Ramlath, wife of Tamil film actor-choreographer Prabhu Deva and the oasis in desert for him is Nayanthara, an unmarried woman from Malayalam tinsel world who conquered Tamil film world. It may be true that actress and actor were doing a wedded life without marrying publically, nevertheless the pain that caused to Ramlath is far beyond any reckon.
The actor and actress have many well-wishers inside the country and outside and if the proposed ‘marriage in public’ materializes it will turn out as a matter of huge shame or both and they will be soon out from the tinsel world. Malayalis’ angel will likely to become devil among Tamilian households.

Nayanthara should understand pain that would have caused to Prabhu Deva’s wife Ramlath. Perhaps she may in the brink of utter despair as she could not judge what incident caused her more sorrow- the cancer death of her elder child or the merciless betrayal of her ‘faithful’ husband. Nayanthara should assume a Ramlath for a moment and contemplate if she could.

K A Solaman

Hotel Taj Malbar will be closed soon!

If this is the way for the management of Hotel Taj Malabar, Kochi to entertain its customers, no doubt the hotel will be closed in the immediate future. The hotel bill, incurred by Congress’s national spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who stayed in Kochi last week to argue lotteries case in favour of Santiago Martin, the don of South India’s lotteries lobby, is no longer a secret. The bill has been paid by the associate of Santiago Martin. Singhvi incurred a bill of Rs 15000 for the intake of ‘small’ alone! Truly a Gandhian disciple suited for the present day Congress party!

The details of Singhvi’s hotel expense should not have become an ‘open’ without the knowledge of hotel staff. Hence the staff member can be promoted for having he made a big publicity for the hotel!

K A Solaman

Magic course at Kerala University

It is highly interesting to see that Kerala University is to conduct magic courses as it has recognized courses conducted by the Magic Academy. In the initial stage, a 100-hour certificate course and a diploma course having 200 learning hours will be conducted.
When everything under the University, such as entrance examination, appointment of assistants, valuation, revaluation, results etc is part of pure magic what is the need for a separate magic course? The syllabus of the course namely the record of magic, science of magic, showmanship, close-up magic, trickery magic etc can be prepared by a close reading of the history of Kerala University.

K A Solaman

Clear-cut verdict

The most noteworthy feature of the much-awaited Allahabad High Court verdict is that it is a clear-cut one. The High Court ordered that the 70 acres of the disputed property should be split into three and distributed among the warring groups. And with its verdict the Court has eased the tension that might have likely to surface as an upshot of another way summed up verdict.
The verdict has established the dignity of the country’s secularism and highlighted the need for attempts to maintain harmony and peace.


K A Solaman