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27.09.2011

Look at today's newspaper. 4 children died as the school van in which they were travelling fell into a canal. Police says the van was driven by the cleaner at the time of accident. Driver or cleaner, now, the present trend in India is such that the authorities who give driving licence to public and the school authorities who appoint drivers for their vans ensure that the drivers are mentally unstable! Count on our stars. In the present and the future, only the celestial positions can save us

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A labourer from Bengal fell off a train at Cherthala in Keralam. It was midnight when the incident took place. He begged for help but no one came forward to help him. He went to the nearby temple and hung himself in the temple bell. As he was hanging, many curious onlookers were watching it. They might have recorded the incident on their mobile camera! Selnselessness reached its peak. Citizen journalism is a new career option in the 21st century.

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I am pained to read another incident happened in Keralam. A labour camp that constituted people from outside the state has been attacked by the locals. The reason for the attack was cited as a theft of a mobile phone. The larger and more convincing reason is that Malayali heart is not expanding in proportionate with the education and the exposure they get to the outer world. They build Malayali samajams whereever they go. They enjoy all rights as any other person in other states. Still, Malayalis can't accommodate a few thousand "out siders". So shameful....

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Spectrum will not die down so early. The government is not willing to come out clean. The centralgovernment is only interested in stonewalling all kinds of finger pointing instead of allowing the entire truth to come out. The PM who takes instruction from the high command knowingly or unknowingly is also a party to this scam. He, like Ceaser's wife, ought to be not only honest but also look honest

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Death,distruction and then corruption dominate the pages of the newspapers and the elctronic media. They vye with each other everyday to find first place in the media. A truck driver was beaten to death for not giving bribe to the transport authorities. A toll booth employee has been shot dead at a toll booth in Gurgoan. The poor young man has been killed for doing his duty. People in our country don't mind killing others even for such silly reasons

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Rabbani, the Afghan peace negotiator has been killed by a suicide bomber. This ensures that peace will not return to Afghanistan so soon. US and Pak blame each other for the terrorism issue. Pakistan says the dreaded Haqani terror network in Afghanistan is a product of CIA. Though this is the truth, US is now blaming Pak for abetting this terror group.

Incidentally, we must remember that Osama Laden has been killed by US in Pak territory even as Pakisatn was repeatedly claiming that he was not living in their country. Anyway, an independent observer may wonder whether Pakistan is supporting or opposing terrorism. Also it is very difficult to come to a conclusion if US is convinced about Pak role in terrorism. They give aid to Pak to fight terrorism and on the other hand criticise them for supporting terrorism.

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Another issue that burns the more we try to douse is the Telangana issue. Why can't this be solved? Smaller states is a good idea and we already made so many small states in the recent history. Needless to say that smaller states like Jharkhand and Goa had/have extremely corrupt dispaensations. Let there be a Telangana sans Hyderabad. Hyderabad can be made a Union Territory like Chandigarh with the capitals of both AP and Telangana situated in Hyderabad.

A union territory serves cheap liquior to people of both the states. Let them cut glasses at '8 PM' and smoke peace pipes everyday. Both peoples of AP and Telangana must shed egos and sit around the table and solve the issue at the earliest

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The richest man in China is selected as a member of the central committee of the Communist party. No comments please. This is just for information.