It's exciting times when many things seem to be happening all together. Keeping track of each one of them is a Herculean task but interesting, all the same. Let's, therefore, have a brief overview of the news that have hit the headlines in recent days.
(a) The 13th Kerala Assembly begins its 16th and Final Session.
The budget session of the 13th Kerala Assembly got off to a start this morning with the
speech by the Governor of Kerala. The achievements of the Oommen Chandy government
have been highlighted and despite the opposition's clamour for its ouster because of the 'Bar'
and 'Solar' scams, the government has been able to get many things going insofar as the state's
development is concerned!
The Bar and the Solar scams seem to be running out of steam because they continue to throw up
charges without any concrete proof of impropriety. What I'd been asking from day one is that
why did Oommen Chandy require the likes of Salim Raj, Jikkumon and Teddy Joppen - all
shady personalities - in his personal staff? I'm sure that 'the truth will out' ultimately and the
guilty will be brought to book! And people like Biju Ramesh(Bar owner), Saritha and Biju
Radhakrishnan(Both of the solar case) are the stars on all the media channels!!
(b) The Sad spectacle of Official Apathy.
After the unfortunate incident of the stripping and beating up of a female Tanzanian student, in a
case of mistaken identity in the city of Bangalore, the authorities' attitude is appalling. The state
government should have proceeded with the investigations immediately after rounding up the
culprits and briefed the media in a matured manner rather than throw muck at the foreign
personnel for their conduct. If they'd been unruly and were found wanting in decent behaviour,
why was action not initiated at the appropriate time and action to deport them taken, if they're
guilty? And I can't understand as to why people resort to such unacceptable behaviour because
what they don't realise is that they've put their brethren, in that country, vulnerable to similar
behaviour as a measure of 'tit for tat'!
To Arnab Goswami's question, my answer is simple and direct, "Of course, we're racist! We
continue to have a weakness for white skin but detest the dark skinned and let's not be in
denial!"
And the 'Fair and Lovely' commercial only reiterates this weakness for 'fair' skin of ours!
(c) Success for the downtrodden!
Vatsalya Chauhan - a Khagaria welder's son - has bagged a Rs. 1.02 cr per annum job at the IT
giant, Microsoft. He's a final year computer science student at IIT, Kharagpur and was picked
up during a campus placement drive in Dec '15. His brother is studying engineering while his
sister is preparing for the medical entrance examination.
I congratulate his parents for allowing their children to think big and work hard!
Tailpiece.
The insurance rep has, since, seen my Chevy and has given the go ahead for the repairs under the insurance cover which is definitely gonna ease the pressure on my pocket!
(a) The 13th Kerala Assembly begins its 16th and Final Session.
The budget session of the 13th Kerala Assembly got off to a start this morning with the
speech by the Governor of Kerala. The achievements of the Oommen Chandy government
have been highlighted and despite the opposition's clamour for its ouster because of the 'Bar'
and 'Solar' scams, the government has been able to get many things going insofar as the state's
development is concerned!
The Bar and the Solar scams seem to be running out of steam because they continue to throw up
charges without any concrete proof of impropriety. What I'd been asking from day one is that
why did Oommen Chandy require the likes of Salim Raj, Jikkumon and Teddy Joppen - all
shady personalities - in his personal staff? I'm sure that 'the truth will out' ultimately and the
guilty will be brought to book! And people like Biju Ramesh(Bar owner), Saritha and Biju
Radhakrishnan(Both of the solar case) are the stars on all the media channels!!
(b) The Sad spectacle of Official Apathy.
After the unfortunate incident of the stripping and beating up of a female Tanzanian student, in a
case of mistaken identity in the city of Bangalore, the authorities' attitude is appalling. The state
government should have proceeded with the investigations immediately after rounding up the
culprits and briefed the media in a matured manner rather than throw muck at the foreign
personnel for their conduct. If they'd been unruly and were found wanting in decent behaviour,
why was action not initiated at the appropriate time and action to deport them taken, if they're
guilty? And I can't understand as to why people resort to such unacceptable behaviour because
what they don't realise is that they've put their brethren, in that country, vulnerable to similar
behaviour as a measure of 'tit for tat'!
To Arnab Goswami's question, my answer is simple and direct, "Of course, we're racist! We
continue to have a weakness for white skin but detest the dark skinned and let's not be in
denial!"
And the 'Fair and Lovely' commercial only reiterates this weakness for 'fair' skin of ours!
(c) Success for the downtrodden!
Vatsalya Chauhan - a Khagaria welder's son - has bagged a Rs. 1.02 cr per annum job at the IT
giant, Microsoft. He's a final year computer science student at IIT, Kharagpur and was picked
up during a campus placement drive in Dec '15. His brother is studying engineering while his
sister is preparing for the medical entrance examination.
I congratulate his parents for allowing their children to think big and work hard!
Tailpiece.
The insurance rep has, since, seen my Chevy and has given the go ahead for the repairs under the insurance cover which is definitely gonna ease the pressure on my pocket!
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