Throwing with kernel

Revenue Minister of Kerala K P Rajendran said: “Malayalees are those who ask for curry when they are given rice. This can be alternately put as “Malayalees are those who throw with kernel when mango is given ”.

JW

School based sex education in Kerala

The Education Department of Kerala has drawn lines to teach adolescent children about the basics of sex in school curriculum. They would have collected teaching notes from celebrities like Thilakan, the thespian turned public orator, convincing people, the technique of having half a dozen children from two women even without any wedlock.

Did the Department ever note the revealing of researchers that school based sex education classes have had little effect on reported sexual behaviour among African adolescents. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Researches Mwanza Research Centre (NIMR Mwanza) exposed that there was no significant impact on pregnancies or sexually transmitted infections due to school based sex education.

The findings are published in the PLoS Medicine.

JW

Mobile impact

The arrest of the two escapees within three days after the Kannur jailbreak is a major confidence booster for the police in Kannur. Thanks to mobile phone industry without which the police could not have achieved this bravura result. Mobile phone is not only a gadget for crime, but it can be advantageously used for tracking criminals. Think twice before totally banning cell phones from campuses as campuses are now become havens of borne criminals.

I feel pity for the two prison jumpers. They need right away whole body massage with all Ayurvedic oils. The lesson to criminals now in jail who have future plans to jump out is: get a thorough coaching from those criminals who are not yet caught in police net. Cell phone tuition from Chacko murder fame Sukumara Kurup can be considered in that case. And the lesson to the valentine criminals is: never trust a woman.
‘Frailty, thy name is woman!’ – Shakespeare


JW

Media created fever?

After party secretary, it is now the turn of Health Minister of Kerala P K Sreemathy to bash the media. The media is trying to create confusion by saying that viral fever is haunting the state, according to her. Does this apply to her party’s own media Kairali, People and Desabhimani? When thousands of fever-stricken patients run from pillar to post it is cruel to say there is no fever in the state. What Sreemathy has to do is to streamline the functions of her department. Ask the doctors in Govt hospitals not to direct people to take treatment in private hospitals.


JW

Premium joke

One of the finest jokes cracked every year in Kerala is the entrance examination held by the self-financing medical college managements. It is an examination with no disappointment and hence no ‘SAY’ examination is conducted after it. If one writes this examination he is admitted to a professional degree course and one does not write this examination, he is also admitted. The only criterion is money and if a person is ready to pay at a bargain price no seat will be denied to any one. A 50 plus lakh holder of fixed deposit in a commercial bank can straight away enter into the auction deal for MBBS seat and for that test and other equipment are irrelevant.

The interesting thing is the minor scuffle at test centres during examination time by the activists of various student organizations and the police. Student leaders need to shed out their flab and that is why this little drama.

JW

Indian Black money in Germany

Germany has given Indian authorities a list of some 50 individuals who have black money there. And based on this information Govt of India officials issued notices to tax evaders. Is there anyone from Kerala to lose sleep with this action? More likely not.

Kerala politicians have savings only in Swiss banks!

JW

Musical door competition.

In a musical chair competition there are a dozen players and a dozen minus one chairs, that is, one chair less than the number of players. The play is performed at the stroke of a bell and one person is left at the end and he would be the winner. In a similar manner a new competition was invented by the UDF in Kerala and it is known as ‘musical door competition’. The number players required is three to four, however, a closed room to which others have no access, is essential. This play was performed last by three political achievers in Kerala namely K M Mani, Remesh Chennithala, and Oommen Chandy. They are all competitors for Chief Ministerial post in the coming election. The three had already given orders to their tailors for making white clothes suited for the chair of Chief Minister.

The play was performed by the three last day in the presence of reporters. The three would enter into a room and close the door. After five minute one would come out and give some information to the news men. He returns and after five minute the other comes out to news men opening the same door. It is repeated turn by turn and the person who makes maximum number of appearance before the reporters is the potential candidate for the Chief Minister post. This competition is performed to go ahead with the decision to “agree to disagree” till the issue of Joseph merger with Mani could be settled later.


Actually the LDF and UDF are worried over the laxity of the people to vote in the next election. And without energizing them these leaders could not take people to polling booths. And that is why the UDF has invented the musical door completion. A similar one will be performed by the LDF soon to woo the people.

JW