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KADAMPUZHA I had gone there to attend a marriage. As I didn’t know any one there, I decided to go to a Higher Secondary School, some five miles away, along the route to Kottakal, through hilly area. The school has an array of buses to transport the students and teachers from the temple township Kadampuzha. [...]

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You can easily spot them: they wear a uniform, consisting of black lungi (cloth) and shout slogans ” Swamiye Sharanamayyappa”. Fortyone days, beginning from the first of Vrischikam (this time it was 17-11-10) the Shabarimala temple in the thick forests of the Western Ghats near Kottayam, remain open for devotees, who come from neighbouring States [...]

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The Supreme Court is the only functional arm of the Indian Sate. It asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to submit a report about spectrum G2 telecom. scandal, within five days. Indirectly, it is asking Manmohan Singh to wake up. It reminded him that the CONTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL is a highly respected constitutional authority [...]

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I had never seen the Post Office The Centre of the village is a cross roads. The East-West road connects Poochunnipadam in the West and Chathakudam Sastha temple in the East The road cutting it, goes towards the Vaidyarathnam H.Q in the North and Sharikal Durga temple in the opposite direction. You can easily spot [...]

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Reports coming from England and the United States, indicate that a crisis is imminent. Economic advisers of capitalist countries of the West, recommended financial packages to continue production in automobile industries; this was agreed and there was a temporary halt to the downward slide in economy, which gave rise to optimism. As the money was [...]

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There are those who do not care about any damn thing! They are happy. I know several of my friends who have never read a newspaper or watched the idiot box. If I say India is doomed, they will retort: Can we help? Most people are busy attending to their home or business, unconcerned with [...]

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This is the first time in the history of our Parliament, that the whole Government is in the dock. Comptroller and Auditor General has severely criticised the Telecom. Ministry for causing big financial loss, to favour a particular firm. The party to which the Minister belongs, has considerable political clout at the Centre. A specific [...]

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On the first day of the month of Vrischikam, 17-11-2010, we occupied our new home, a dream of my wife fulfilled. When I woke up in the morning today, I felt as if I am in a strange house, as a guest. I am used to my rented house; here I do not know which [...]

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SAHRDAYAM ENGINEERING COLLEGE Some one told me about this college and so I decided to go there. I got down at Kodakara and boarded another bus towards the west. When the conductor announced the name of the college, about which I had told him, I got down and took an autorickshaw which took some time, [...]

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The number of worms staying comfortably in our intestines, especially children, is too much. Though things have improved in towns, villagers still use any ground as a latrine and germs are carried away by water in the rainy season. Thread worms etc, are still present in children. Deworming is necessary every alternate months. Lice in [...]