Actually nobody can claim the credit for the average income or for the life style of keralites.It is only the result of hard working "pravasis"all over the world.Recently I met a "kallu chethu" laburar in one of the remote villages of Thane ,near Mumbai.Yes!his kith and kin enjoying the life,because he climb on the coconut tree every day.I do not know whether his friends or relatives know what kind of work he has in Bombay.Thousands are sacrificing there life out side kerala,so that malayalees staying in kerala have better life style.No political party or any orgainisation can claim the responsibility for the income and life style for the keralites residing in Kerala.
I am staying in Bombay for the last 25 years,but never seen any strike in any educational institution in Bombay.But look,what is happening in our colleges and universities.
No one should fooled by the life style of the keralites.
From: M K MENON <mkmenons@streamyx.com>
To: Keralites <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 8:14:36 PM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Real democracy
| Dear Mr. Rajeevan, Whilst I agree that Kerala is one of the best states in India to live, I do not believe all. The average income of Rs63,000 per capita without gulf or external remittances is a joke. It is completely flawed. While people live rather comfortably through remittances mainly from the middle east, Keralites are having a good time. During my regular visits, I have found that the economy activity of the state is suddenly stunned by declaring a bundh. People are highly inconvenienced through closure of shops, no transport except by private cars. The politicians and their followers simply make other peoples' lives miserable without any gain to them. There is no able administration in all areas of the Government as everyone has a don't care attitude. It is common to have Samaram by the students if the teachers have probably punished one of the students for a misbehaviour. During my school days, my parents authorize the teachers to punish us if we proved mischievous or created any problem in the school. Nowadays, the parents will question the teachers and not their children.I emigrated from Kerala when I was 16 years old and have come back there almost 50 to 60 times until now after 59 years of my stay in this country where I have a family. I visit Kerala at least once a year. Two or three times whilst my parents were alive! I certainly hope that the situation in Kerala will improve like what is happening in Singapore! Which is one of the most prosperous country(City) in the world.It is free of corruption and all employed persons are paid well and the rate of their currency has appreciated about 50 times from the time I arrived there in the early 50's. Yours sincerely, -------Original Message------- From: RAJEEVAN THEKKE VEETIL Date: 8/27/2010 9:35:33 AM Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Real democracy I have been observing the discussion in this group about democracy and 'NOKKUKULI'.I have a different view from the views expressed so far.A gentleman on Sunday a closed holiday forced ashopkeeper to open the shop for cement and shopkeeper charged Rs2/ extra per bag.What ever shopkeeper said he believed andpaid the extra money with out any protests or complaints.Another gentleman shifted to Mumbai fearing head load workers of Kerala. What is' nokkukuli'?Everybody who works knows that when they loose their jobthe company they work compensates.Compensation is given by the owner of the company.Owner make up the loss from his products.This is an internationally established fact.Like this many companies introduced automation and many head load workers lost their job.Also various factors are there head load workers lost their earnings.Since headload workers are not treated as regular employees they are not paid any compensation.'Nokkukuli' is a very very small .1%compensation for the work lost.'Nokkukuli' is charged from those owners whose work has been considerably reduced by automation and other factors.Kerala has a much efficient police and complaints can be registered if any individual is unnecessarly harassed for this. I pity for the gentleman who shifted to Mumbai fearing head load workers of Kerala.Is he aware of the life in Mumbai?There are more than 2500deaths in local trains and many murders in a year.A malayali living for generations is not treated a Mumbaikar and treated asan outsider.Business even a small beedi shop can not be run with out paying extortion. Kerala is the best place to live.It is the no1 state in India.Best in education,health care, highest per capita income[Rs 63000/with out taking gulf remittance] and well maintained law and order.Those people who lived outside Kerala knows about thisand envy the people of Kerala. Rajeevan Surely nobody would say that democracy is the best system imaginable. Assuming a utopian system impossible, quite a few would suppose that it is the best possible system in practice. However, there is hardly a consensus on what constitutes democracy; it lists representative and liberal, Islamic and Christian, constitutional, grassroots, and even totalitarian democracies among its congregation. So newer, better kinds of democracy are certainly imaginable, if not necessarily practicable. Most adherents and propagators of democracy would surely agree that a fundamental principle on which it always must be based is that the people are to be trusted to choose the best candidate, and thus make the best decision for the country. We know that this is rarely guaranteed, partly because there is no sure way to make everyone make the right decision. This is an innate, and unavoidable, aspect of democracy. But if the system could lean towards replicating the free market economy—that is, grow an Invisible Hand that caused people, even when voting selfishly, to unintentionally benefit the country—then we may have a better form of democracy. There may be an innate difficulty in the idea: in economics, there is at least one principle universally agreed upon, which is that more money is better than less money. If each person succeeds in making more money for himself, everyone succeeds in improving the economy as a whole. However, there is no such universally accepted principle in politics, and perhaps then the analogy must fail. Capitalism naturally provides incentive for people and businesses to perform well, but democracy provides no such incentive with regard to voting. For every voter who marks his ballot paper with the best of intentions for the country, there will be another who votes for purely personal reasons. That whole category should not be vilified (it consists of the majority of people), but among their ranks are likely to be those who vote for racist reasons, for reasons of misplaced party loyalty, or generally with unsavoury or ignorant intentions. And of those who vote for the country's well-being with sincerity, there is no guarantee that they are truly able to judge that correctly. No one can reasonably expect that all voters should or could be gifted political and economic analysts, but it surely is within reason to expect them to have a good understanding of the subject, generally speaking and regarding current events, otherwise they are not even able to make a merely honest decision. To achieve a genuine Invisible Hand democracy, a sort of cosmic process of a system that by its nature produces the best results, may be an ideal, and it may be an impossible one. Therefore the following idea is not a blueprint for the thing itself, but rather a possible stepping stone towards it. Meritocratic Democracy The idea behind this system is simply that some votes have more value than others. The value of your vote can be judged in one of these ways: 1. You have to take a test to show how much you know about the political climate. Obviously you don't have to be an expert, but you have to know enough to justify giving you such a responsibility. 2. You have to justify your vote. Justification doesn't have to be in-depth, it simply has to be a proper reason. So, if someone votes for the BNP and justifies it by saying "I hate immigrants", their vote would have less value because it's not a real reason. Voters will also have to show some knowledge of the policies of the parties they're not voting for, as otherwise there would be no reason to suspect that their chosen party is any better than the others. Now of course, there are likely to be many who will rebel against the idea of a test, and it goes without saying that the logistics of such an enterprise are difficult at the very least. However, the benefits might outweigh the costs as follows: there will be some who won't be averse to taking the test when told that it is a short and painless thing, and that the value of their vote will increase; though there will be less voters, each vote will be worth more for the country, since it is more likely to be well-considered. The seemingly simpler idea of asking for justification for one's vote has the advantage that it becomes less likely that people will be able to justify voting for plainly bad parties, such as the BNP. But a complication arises in the question of how justifications can be objectively judged. This would seem to entail the creation (or amendment) of a constitution, with legislation designed specifically with the system in mind, and this is not a simple, short term solution. The value of the vote in this system can be thought of as the political equivalent of capital in the free market. People should, if the system is to work, desire a higher value vote for its own ends. Presently, many people think voting is useless because their vote doesn't make a difference. And despite the protestations of the well-intentioned that that is true only if everyone thought like that, their individual vote actually is negligible (which is part of the point of democracy). If they could change the value of their vote, it is more likely to make a difference. This may have the effect of weeding out the indifferent and apathetic, and encouraging the truly enthusiastic to make better decisions. One difficulty with the economic-political analogy here is that, if we are to take it to its logical extreme within the context of the Invisible Hand idea, it should then be possible for someone resourceful enough to accrue vastly more vote-power than the majority of others. Only then would the idea of voting-power be a true incentive in the sense analogous to capital in capitalism. But this would be absurd, not to mention impossible within the system, because the only way someone could become "vote-rich" would be to take thousands of tests. Given that that obviously wouldn't be allowed, and that there must be imposed a reasonable limit on the value of each vote, the Hand is not quite invisible yet, though it is gradually becoming a little more translucent. Thanks & Regards, Ayyappan sambaji On 24 August 2010 04:55, Sunitha Thomas <sunitha_toms@yahoo.com> wrote: Dear Friends, The debate is progressing & and turning very interesting. The democracy is in its EVER-WORST form in India Now !! Whenever the issue of increasing Salary & Perks of MPs come up it is approved and implemented UNANIMOUSLY with Lightning Speed. One who has enjoyed the taste of LIVING ROYAL in politics never wants to leave it. An example is Shri K. Muraleedharan who is frantically running after everybody even with a threat that he will fast unto death if he is NOT taken back into Congress Party after March 8, 2011 !!! He and his father are responsible for ruining the peaceful life in kerala dragging kerala into Leftist Rule, the result of which the ill-fated people of Kerala are suffering. There is anarcy and corruption everywhere Sunitha --- On Mon, 23/8/10, Tarlok Singh <tsingh2003@gmail.com> wrote: From: Tarlok Singh <tsingh2003@gmail.com> Date: Monday, 23 August, 2010, 7:44 AM Dear Menon, I agree with your views on democracy one hundred per cent. Those who say that democracy in India is working smoothly and in its right spirit, are living in a world where hypocrisy rules the roost; or, else those poor guys happen to be as ignorant as an owl is. Incidentally, I hold a master's degree in political science having stood second in the order of merit amongst 113 successful candidates in the postgraduate degree examination in political science conducted by my Alma Mater as far back as the year 1956; I believe, many of those who are claiming that democracy in India is functioning ideally, must not have born then. Although in our democracy all the important institutions exist, such as free, fair and frequient elections, freedom of expression, indepndent sources of information, freedom of association etc., but in actual practice it is seen that all these rights granted to the public are being ruthlessly trampled by nour 'so-called representatives' most of who are illiterate or semi-literate and many having criminal backgrounds. But we, the people, are responsible for this sad state of afairs as we have elected them to power knowing fully well their ill-traits. It is also the fault of our temple of democracy - the Parliament - which has not bothered to pass laws prescribing minimum qualifications for those contesting the elections, or for banning those who have criminal past; be that as it may, how can you expect such laws being passed by the legislature where criminal elements are ruling the roost? Moreover in the present political environment in India where the central government is weak, standing as it is, on the crutches provided to it by its "allies" which consist of a crowd of parties believing in regionalism, religion's paramountcy, casteism et al, the cardinal principles of democracy are being sacrificed at the altar of the agendas of the so-called 'allies' - alas, all this just for getting a firm grip on power. Power politics is unknown to real democracy. Since Arisotle's time, political philosophers generally have insisted that no actual political system is likely to attain, to the fullest extent possible, all the features of its corresponding ideal. History - particularly beginning 20th-century - has demonstrated that democracy uniquely possesses a number of features that most people, whatever their basic political beliefs, would consider desirable: (1) it helps to prevent rule by cruel and vicious autocrats; (2) modern representative democracies do not fight wars with one another - India had to fight three major wars with Pakistan but those wars were thrust upon this country by the military dictators who have been ruling our neighbouring country for most of the time; (3) countries with democratic governments tend to be more prosperous than countries with non-democratic govts, Pakistan being an example in contrast to India; and (4) democracy tends to foster human development - as measured by health, eduction, personal income and other indicators - more fully than other forms of govts do Be that as it may, it has come to be realised that democracy in our country is suffering by default - the leadership has disappointed people. Once the leadership problem is solved and we get a new brand of young leadership who take governanace as a means of serving the people at large, considering corruption as the worst malaise that tortures a nation, and to work democratic system to the ultimate benefit, happiness and prosperity of their countrymen, the imagined utopia will set in. It is the important duty of the people, as well, to return only such people to the parliament who, they perceive, will do the best for the citizens. Regards. Tarlok Singh This is really a healthy conversation. More people should participate in this, read this and try to change ourselves. My view, Indian Democracy is the biggest, strongest and the best in the world. People are deciding whom to rule the country. If you say, our system is faulty, then the culprit is we. We are the one who elect wrong persons and now we don't have any right to cry on this issue. Now we are blaming the whole system without blaming the wrong persons who are running the system. The system will be the best if we put our votes to the right candidates. How come 100s of MPs in the Parliament have murder cases in their accounts? We elected the wrong persons. If each of us decides that we will vote only to the good candidates irrespective of his party or religion, the situation will improve. We should not dream of changing India in just one day. Also there should be a button in the voting machine for "none of these candidates". It is our right to elect someone and then we have the right to reject whom we don't want. By the way, we cannot eradicate corruption to 0% by using any system. But we can reduce it. If each of us decide that we will not give money in any government offices for getting our jobs done quickly, there will be improvements. In present system, we are ready to give. We can't wait in the queue. One guy, whether he is The President or Prime Minister, cannot change this. But we, as a group of people, The People Of India can change it. Let us be proud of the positive sides of our Democracy and try to improve it. I don't have the power, but WE have the power. Have a nice day!! From: ICS MENON <ics.menon@gmail.com> To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 20 August, 2010 5:46:46 PM Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Real democracy great mr. nazeer, am trying to reach the common man to spread the idea of decentralising power and money management in our administrative system by voting out all politicians and electing one independant candiate. it will be just a begining to teach alesson to the politicians who now think that general public is an ASS. i ill shortly distribute some leaflets to know the public response. what ever may be the people discuss, they are all looking for some benefit from the politicians a small percentage and larger share is enjoyed by the big fish. let us take small steps to proceed slowly. with best wishes ics menon On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Prem Niz <prem149@yahoo.com> wrote: Before we enter into a worship place, we keep our footwear outside the shrine. It means we should not carry dirty things, even if we use them for our daily life, into a sacred place. Similarly, when we enter into our conscience for introspection, we should not carry any dirty politics with us. Now the answer is crystal clear: Our constitution guarantees our fundamental rights. We scream and fight for them every now and then. At the same time our constitution prescribes our fundamental duties. We will conveniently keep these in the refrigerator. This is the main problem we have. We have to recognize our fundamental duties and invoke them as and when they become necessary. We have to introspect before we criticize someone. If many of the politicians practice a small fraction of what they preach, our India would have been the best in the world. It does not mean that all will live like naked fakirs in the name of austerity. In Singapore if somebody spits or litters anything on the street, the authority will immediately impose a fine irrespective of their status symbols. When we go to abroad, we will be advised to respect the law of the land we visit. But even our chotta netas and babus ignore the same in our own land. Cleansing, like charity, should begin at home. I think every week some one has to write an article to teach discipline to such politicians and irresponsible citizens. We are still yielding to our self-praise just to keep on singing: saare jahaanse achcha Hindustaan HAMAARA. We have to impress others by way of our good and disciplined living. Then that will make others sing on us: saare jahaanse achcha Hindustan TUMHAARA. That will be much better and more acceptable precedence. Best regards, Prem Nizar Hameed To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 6:58:21 PM see u all say system is wrong.. can i ask u how system become worng? A system is made by people also. A simple eg is how many us is showing proper manners in roads. How many of us are obeying traffic rules. Let me give u an example..at statue junction there are signal lights..how many of us dare to obey them, if some one breaks the law we all think " if he can why cant i". Another one when in beach or park, how many of us care to not make it polluted (lets not clean it but we can avoid making it litter)..how many wear helmets while driving (many say "I do" but please look around and count how many are not wearing) .. these are very basic things which we can do... so we all must take responsibilities instead of saying politicians are bad we must first make ourselves perfect,,, On 17 August 2010 23:10, John Thomas <joal0791@yahoo.com> wrote:
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