..the very Incredible India

Incredible India..!
It's the place where girls, as young as five year old gets brutally raped and the police offers 2000 rupees to the parents not to register the case. Incredible indeed.

Women is considered as lesser being by most of the people in India, hence the female feticide.And do not think it is the illiterate rural folks who are at it, its most widely done in the urban upper class . In one sense it is better, than the baby growing up and facing more atrocities on the way.

I am not saying that India is the only place where crimes of such inhuman nature occurs, what I am
saying is that India is the only place where such crimes occur and the maximum punishment that can be handed off is a lifetime sentence, 12 or so years in prison. Is  so many years of free accommodation, food and paid labor going to deter the next person from committing the same crime..? I don't think so.

Punishment needs to install a sense of terror in everybody's mind, like when I was little, "I will tell this to your papa when he gets home " was all that was needed to bring out my best behaviour. I've read about the life in prison in other countries, only a born criminal can withstand that life, and generally people tend to avoid it. But over here, its better than the life outside for most of them.

India is the second populous country in the world, and main majority of its population is poor, "below poverty line". The Government on its part has passed out policies ensuring food provisions at a discounted rate from PDS outlets and the 100 days of work for everyone,but the non-poor society implementing these schemes cannot just get enough for themselves..!!

It is indeed very much difficult situation, but we have the manpower as well as the intellectual power to make changes in these situation, we only need a great leader, someone who can make use of our resources to the betterment of the country as a whole, and not just their personal life.

I do believe that such a change will come about, however late. We have identified our vices long back, and their solutions too, just the implementing part is lagging.

..a letter to kerala state electricity board

This is the second consecutive day power went off in the morning, and didn’t come back till evening..!  This is so unfair..!!! And in this melting heat too..!

Dear KSEB,

It is with a saddened heart that I am writing this letter. I know that it is summer, and that there is shortage of water. All I am asking is if you people could predict this dire shortage of water, why didn’t you guys do something about it, like maybe finding an alternate source..?

Sun is available all the morning, and heat is on a record rate.  Couldn’t the engineers’ at least try to provide solar energy to some specific region..? Say, for example Government buildings in the capital..? Or, we have plenty of coastal areas, even though it is hard to harness tidal energy, why not try a hand in wind energy..? I heard that in Denmark they have windmills in the sea, literally in the sea, on cement columns and they use wind power to provide for 1/4^th of the country’s power needs. Why not try it out over here..? I’ve read about various ministers and their love for traveling abroad, while you are at it, why don’t you bring back something useful that can be implemented over here..???

And, since the electricity board is so strict about extra consumption of the ordinary people, I’d like to put forward yet another strategy to save energy. Ban political meetings during summer. God only knows how much electricity they use up with all the mike set, loudspeakers, lights and everything. Nothing comes out of it, no visible result, other than most us learning new swear words.

And, dear Government I know that nothing beats experience, but do put in some engineers or innovative minds in the governance team, so that when you guys are so busy eating up the existing resources, and having fun at expense of our tax money, there will be some people to point out to you new fields to exploit, once you are done with exhausting the existing resources. And who knows, us people may get lucky, if some poor soul do come up with plans to make Kerala emerge.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

Soon to be tax paying citizen.