Some of the news, that's currently making headlines at these times, are being revisited and analysed. So, without much ado let's go ahead:-
(a) Onions @ Rs.150/- !?
Due to adverse weather conditions in the onion growing areas of the country, there has been
an acute scarcity of vegetable in the markets. Consequently, the prices have been rising steadily
and is now poised at Rs.150/- per kg. It's a vegetable that's popular with the rich and the poor
alike. Therefore, the following doesn't make sense or add up to results, which is the requirement
of the hour:-
(i) The central food minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, had announced that the government was
importing a lakh ton of onions with immediate effect to tide over the crisis, quite a while
back. Where are those? Why aren't the markets being flooded with it? Isn't it high time
that the remedy takes effect, forthwith, as the patience of the common man is running out?
(ii) Secondly, there has been central ministers who have made statements that they don't eat
onions. What do they want the common man to do? Clone them and stop eating till the
adverse conditions are weathered? Is it practical? I'd advise these motor mouths to keep
quiet if they've nothing worthwhile to utter.
Hope the government's remedial measures get visible at the earliest!
(b) Are we a country of rapists?
This week, it has been sickening to hear of rapes followed by gruesome killings of the hapless
victims, as reported from many places across the country. What the hell is happening? Are we
trying to prove our sexual prowess on unsuspecting women, out in the public domain, going
about their daily chores and tasks.
What have we come to be? I mean don't the guilty have their mothers, sisters, wives or daughters
back in their homes? If they want them to be safe, how dare they prey on the others' mothers,
sisters, wives or daughters?
The law needs to be made very responsive so that the culprits are brought to book, through fast
track procedure and death be meted out without the least amount of compassion! Only then will
such retribution have a dilatory effect on subsequent incidents of this nature!!
(c) The worst effect of climate change!
Was quite saddened by the stark photographs showing the once luxurious and majestic, Victoria
Falls, in between Zambia and Zimbabwe, on the River Zambezi, reduced to a pathetic trickle
thanks to the prolonged drought prevalent in many parts of Africa. The forecast is that even that
trickle would be reduced to a no-show within the next couple of weeks.
Sad! Hope the UN-sponsored conference to suggest meaningful measures to be followed by
every country in the world, provides us with milestones to be followed, to reverse the trends. It's
the need of the hour and our gift to the coming generations!
Tailpiece.
Another quiet day. Lekha had gone to the Guruvayur temple for her weekly tryst. Her left leg had begun to hurt her by evening and she did every job that she'd planned to do today, notwithstanding the discomfort! Poor girl. Hats off to her grit and determination!!
(a) Onions @ Rs.150/- !?
Due to adverse weather conditions in the onion growing areas of the country, there has been
an acute scarcity of vegetable in the markets. Consequently, the prices have been rising steadily
and is now poised at Rs.150/- per kg. It's a vegetable that's popular with the rich and the poor
alike. Therefore, the following doesn't make sense or add up to results, which is the requirement
of the hour:-
(i) The central food minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, had announced that the government was
importing a lakh ton of onions with immediate effect to tide over the crisis, quite a while
back. Where are those? Why aren't the markets being flooded with it? Isn't it high time
that the remedy takes effect, forthwith, as the patience of the common man is running out?
(ii) Secondly, there has been central ministers who have made statements that they don't eat
onions. What do they want the common man to do? Clone them and stop eating till the
adverse conditions are weathered? Is it practical? I'd advise these motor mouths to keep
quiet if they've nothing worthwhile to utter.
Hope the government's remedial measures get visible at the earliest!
(b) Are we a country of rapists?
This week, it has been sickening to hear of rapes followed by gruesome killings of the hapless
victims, as reported from many places across the country. What the hell is happening? Are we
trying to prove our sexual prowess on unsuspecting women, out in the public domain, going
about their daily chores and tasks.
What have we come to be? I mean don't the guilty have their mothers, sisters, wives or daughters
back in their homes? If they want them to be safe, how dare they prey on the others' mothers,
sisters, wives or daughters?
The law needs to be made very responsive so that the culprits are brought to book, through fast
track procedure and death be meted out without the least amount of compassion! Only then will
such retribution have a dilatory effect on subsequent incidents of this nature!!
(c) The worst effect of climate change!
Was quite saddened by the stark photographs showing the once luxurious and majestic, Victoria
Falls, in between Zambia and Zimbabwe, on the River Zambezi, reduced to a pathetic trickle
thanks to the prolonged drought prevalent in many parts of Africa. The forecast is that even that
trickle would be reduced to a no-show within the next couple of weeks.
Sad! Hope the UN-sponsored conference to suggest meaningful measures to be followed by
every country in the world, provides us with milestones to be followed, to reverse the trends. It's
the need of the hour and our gift to the coming generations!
Tailpiece.
Another quiet day. Lekha had gone to the Guruvayur temple for her weekly tryst. Her left leg had begun to hurt her by evening and she did every job that she'd planned to do today, notwithstanding the discomfort! Poor girl. Hats off to her grit and determination!!
In view of Tailpiece no comments on other non-issues. Keep blogging. Good luck. Who knows, one day the blog may start giving interesting returns
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