'I have wandered into a lunatic asylum!' said Swami Vivekananda while in Kerala.
And more than 100 years have passed, yet Keralites continue to prove him right. Looking at the way the nail biting election results played out and the ensuing dramas before and after the election can one say that caste/community/religious based feelings have all been dumped?
Will the present CM voluntary select a mental hospital to recuperate / escape lunatic Kerala?
As a woman, I continue to wonder how Kunjhalikutty managed to get such a thumping victory. As for PJ Joseph, he has been hopping from party to another very easily and barely managed to escape the sexual allegation against him. The mullahs and the priests have indeed done a great job!
How did one of the best ministers in the earlier government N K Premachandran lose?
Politicians and religious heads have made Kerala into a land of minorities and we have minorities even among the majority! Each party keeps evolving after every election and fine tunes their means to keep this trend running.
Should I not admit myself into a lunatic asylum if I ever hope for good governance in Kerala?
For further enlightment:
http://maddy06.blogspot.com/2007/09/vivekanadas-lunatic-kerala.html
http://www.hvk.org/articles/1105/52.html
http://www.hindu.com/2009/05/12/stories/2009051261710100.htm
http://www.minister-irrigation.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26
http://www.dailypioneer.com/336305/Left-reacts-wildly-to-NSS-criticism-against-VS.html
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/apr/30flip.htm
Random Thoughts, Ramblings.....
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hiding the elephant
Couldnt help posting the following that I came across on the comment section of the article "Did Paskitan know ...." by David Ignatius in the Washington Post.
Someone has brilliantly summed up the situation.
Questions have been raised how bin Laden could be in Abbottabad without the Pakistan government knowing about it.
But actually I can perfectly understand the situation of the Pakistani government because I have had a similar situation.
For a long time now, an elephant has apparently been living in my apartment. I did not know it because every time I came home, the elephant would hide under the refrigerator.
But somehow the neighbours heard the elephant's trumpeting and called the city. The city called the cops who entered the apartment and enticed the elephant out with peanuts. I am now being asked to testify.
The punishment for having an elephant illegally could be heavy. Instead of giving me a magnum of champagne which the mayor gives me every year, he might only give a bottle of Merlot.
I am outraged! First the police entered my apartment, and now I am being threatened with Merlot! I might end my relationship with the mayor...
But mayor Obama likes me and has put me in charge of the investigation of the elephant. After all, it is MYapartment and who is better equipped to investigate than me? So my first question is, "Could it be the mailman who brought the elephant to my apartment and taught it to hide under the refrigerator?" "Or is it the cleaning lady?"
I really can't think of a third person!!
The government of Pakistan, which has a similar problem, has my full sympathy!
Someone has brilliantly summed up the situation.
Questions have been raised how bin Laden could be in Abbottabad without the Pakistan government knowing about it.
But actually I can perfectly understand the situation of the Pakistani government because I have had a similar situation.
For a long time now, an elephant has apparently been living in my apartment. I did not know it because every time I came home, the elephant would hide under the refrigerator.
But somehow the neighbours heard the elephant's trumpeting and called the city. The city called the cops who entered the apartment and enticed the elephant out with peanuts. I am now being asked to testify.
The punishment for having an elephant illegally could be heavy. Instead of giving me a magnum of champagne which the mayor gives me every year, he might only give a bottle of Merlot.
I am outraged! First the police entered my apartment, and now I am being threatened with Merlot! I might end my relationship with the mayor...
But mayor Obama likes me and has put me in charge of the investigation of the elephant. After all, it is MYapartment and who is better equipped to investigate than me? So my first question is, "Could it be the mailman who brought the elephant to my apartment and taught it to hide under the refrigerator?" "Or is it the cleaning lady?"
I really can't think of a third person!!
The government of Pakistan, which has a similar problem, has my full sympathy!
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