tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76517249902287828282024-03-18T16:11:35.235+05:30Rajan C Mathew's BlogsRajan C Mathew's Blogs (http://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/) is a bilingual blog site in English and Malayalam containing nearly 550 articles (new getting added) on several topics concerning everyday living .These writings reflect certain truths and opinions based on the author's decades of experience as an Indian public sector technocrat. Several of these might enlighten serious readers with valuable truths as revealed by the author's favorite book of life guidance-the Urantia Book.Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.comBlogger559125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-29757047729967179282022-04-17T11:29:00.002+05:302022-04-18T09:02:10.927+05:30Falling Bank Interest Rates in India-How Does it Adversely Affect India and the Indians? Is there an Unseen Lobby Behind it?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">We often prefer to assume that those in authority or government are much intelligent than us and whatever decisions they take are the best ones for the common citizens. We prefer to think that our authorities seldom do mistakes or tell lies or cheat us. We keep thinking that our governance systems are all for our benefits and they ensure justice to the common people like us. At least, that's our wishful thinking!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But in reality, due to several reasons it is more often the other way. At least that is what we observe in many nations of the world today. Governments and governance are as perfect or imperfect as the people of the respective nation. Some are better, some average while several are worse.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Human errors and stupidities are the reasons for most of our sufferings, except perhaps those pure natural calamities. Humans with acquired authority for some time do more stupid acts that eventually cause much harm to many people, including innocent ones! Clever and intelligent people acquiring authority to rule nations are found to succumb to evil thoughts and deeds and perish after some time. Cleverness never ensures character and goodness!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is absolutely no reason why a nation cannot be administered in a wise and just manner ensuring the best living conditions to its people. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen that way always. Governments of our world have been doing their job as if their decisions are influenced by good thoughts, stupidities or evil ideas in varying degrees.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Indian economy is in shambles for quite some time. But the government and its experts are very reluctant to admit it. They keep trying to publish very many reports that keep producing data and analysis trying valiantly to prove that their decisions have all been very correct and useful.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us recall some of those decisions that has caused some major damage to the Indian economy due to certain inherent problems that the decision makers probably overlooked or ignored.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first was the abrupt withdrawal of certain currency notes in circulation. All of a sudden, existing Rs.500 and Rs.1000 denomination currency notes were withdrawn from circulation and citizens were required to give due explanations for getting those replaced with new currency notes. The idea was told as a step towards eliminating unaccounted cash in the economy and to speed up digital currency transactions. The idea was perhaps good. But the people suffered immensely. What happened next?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The logic of withdrawing Rs.1000 was to prevent people from hoarding black money. But the Government failed that logic by re-introducing Rs.2000 notes! People thought that digital Point of Sales (POS) machines would become a common thing as promised by the government. But it never happened. No one in the government talks about it any more!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The actual data regarding the black money in the economy arrested by this demonetization exercise did not get officially publicized. Whatever data ever published was too late and apparently proved the futility of the decision by the government. (Read: <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/demonetisation-what-india-gained-and-lost-1327502-2018-08-30" target="_blank">Demonetization: What India Gained and Lost</a>) </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps the biggest loser was the government. Reserve Bank of India's dividend payout to the government got reduced by half, post demonetization. The government's assessment of big black money in the economy proved wrong. Only 0.7% of the currency failed to return back to the RBI. In turn RBI incurred heavy losses for making new currency in circulation!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The biggest problems perhaps happened in the small scale industry sector in the rural areas. This sector provided much employment. They most often did their money transactions in cash because of the non-availability of infrastructure for digital cash transactions and the mere lack of knowledge and skills of the people to transact digitally. The demonetization was a sudden blow which caused thousands of such businesses to get closed for ever.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus demonetization exercise by the government, though thought as a wise step was not so eventually. People suffered and with the people the government too suffered. When transactions of money in the economy come down, the tax collections by the government also come down. That was what happened. But it is very difficult for some men and women to admit problems happened due to their stupidities! They often forget the fact that admitting a folly is essential to analyze it properly so that such follies are avoided in future. But most often, it is seen that those in some authority are reluctant to admit follies. Such an attitude is bound to create more follies.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">India is not a nation which is fully literate. While many developed nations have achieved almost 100% literacy, India has yet to achieve that level. See <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/literacy" target="_blank">world literacy rate</a> chart! When literacy in itself is not full, how can one assume that digital literacy or the ability of people to handle smart phones and computers be adequate for people to do their economic or money transactions in a digital environment? As on 2021 <a href="https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2021-india" target="_blank">only 45% of the Indian population has access to internet</a> connectivity. That does not ensure that all these 45 % are adequately literate in using the internet and computers for economic transactions. Obviously, people who are computer savvy are much less. More over, nearly 40 % of Indian people are in the below poverty level and these people cannot even afford computers or smart phones.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus any one with some reasonable common sense can easily understand the prime need for India to bring its below poverty people to higher economic levels. And why is it important? It is because, people with higher economic spending capacity enhance the gross economic transactions of the nation. This would enhance the gross domestic product or GDP. When GDP rises, the government gets more money from taxes. When the government has more money, they would be in a position to spend more money to enhance the nations infrastructure, defense and other measures which in turn boost the GDP to higher levels. When the economy grows like that in a positive manner, Indian currency becomes strong. India would no longer would be required to sell its products and services in the international markets in a cheap manner!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, more people with more money to spend, enhance the market potential of the nation. That creates incentives for more production of goods and facilitates better and new services. In turn, job opportunities starts growing and more and more people will get employment or business opportunities. The economy starts going up and the governments, central, states and local, start becoming richer and more creative.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the most important task of the government in this kind of a situation would be to enhance peoples' income. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next question is how to do it!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indian governments have been doing it in the most regressive or unproductive manner so far. They have been adopting the technique of subsidies. They give some kind of price subsidy or some meagre pensions for poor people that is much less to boost the economy in any meaningful manner. More often, the effect of these subsidies are not visible in the economy. It's like putting some sugar in a big lake to make the lake water sweet! The sugar simply gets wasted without any real benefit as intended!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ideally, every rupee transacted should benefit the individual, the society and the government. But foolish people in decision making often cause stupid decisions by the government or its various organizations causing much negative impact on the country and its people. The desired good objectives hardly get achieved. On the contrary more often opposite effects start taking place! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Governments more often try to control the economy by periodic revision of bank interest rates. These interest rates are said to be based on broad economic analysis, but often they are administered arbitrarily or more or less that way. In India, this is effected through the Reserve Bank of India. Thus bank interests on deposits and loan interests rates are all essentially administered rather than based on any demand- supply market conditions!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some people in higher administration levels think that reducing interest rates can boost investment opportunities and growth in business. To some extent this is true. But when interest rate administration by the RBI is done too often on a quarterly basis, it causes one of the biggest problems in business-the uncertain markets and market confidence. This is much more detrimental to economic growth. Another problem in reducing interest rates is reducing income of government on this count. Interest rate cuts make some richer while several others get poorer. More often it is the common public who toiled hard to earn and save money for future needs get affected adversely by bank interest rate going lower and lower year after year. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In my opinion, low bank interest rates could be a better economic situation for countries which are fully developed with majority higher income citizens. But for countries like India with a good majority of people below peanut incomes, bank interest rate reduction is not a good idea! It only helps big corporates and big business houses who often do not share their profits proportionally to the government as higher taxes or to the common public share holders as higher dividends. Perhaps they might enhance the salaries and perks of some of their top employees. But such growth in higher net worth individuals seldom help the country as the higher wealth of high net worth individuals never percolates down to the economy effectively. It is easy to understand this by simple arithmetic. For paucity of time I do not want to attempt it here.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">It seems there is a lobby of big corporates and their paid economic media houses who keep working to influence the government for reducing bank interest rates through the administered mechanism of the Reserve Bank of India. India has been reducing the bank interest rates continuously for the past couple of years. In the last 5-6 years time, bank interest rates thus administered have reduced more than half. Bank fixed deposit rates for the common man has reduced to much less than the yearly inflation. FD rates and the savings bank interest rates are more or less similar and at around 3.5 to 5.5 % now and it seems the lobbyists are trying hard to make it reduced to 1% or lower as it is in a few developed nations. The irony is that some such countries are now thinking of enhancing their administered interest rates!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interest rate cutting on a regular basis to levels less than the inflation level is a stupid thing to happen. It is interesting to note that some paid economic writers keep telling high interest rates are the cause for high inflation and price rise while some of their counterparts keep telling the other way. It is interesting to note that the economic media writers and opinion makers keep telling falsehoods the way they are told to do. Our planet is essentially one controlled by evil thoughts and evil doers!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">And evil minds keep influencing common people with their clever falsehoods that the latter ones are incapable of distinguishing from truths. And that way the common citizens keep suffering while their clever leaders do whatever they like with impunity!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So long as the majority common people are handicapped with illiteracy and poverty, bad governance keeps perpetuating in the name of good governance!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-80611341474445565902021-06-22T13:33:00.001+05:302021-06-22T13:34:36.467+05:30Some Blog Articles that You Would Never Like or Share Because they are Bitterly True!<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>There are some </span><span>contemporary topics</span><span> about which the author of this site has given some deep thinking resulting in some articles that have already been published in this site.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">These thoughts or ideas may not be very much palatable to people who are inclined towards day to day living only.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">People who are biased with their own religious beliefs or political inclinations may not like these.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those who think they are well informed and well connected may not like these thoughts from an ordinary fellow with no patronage from big personalities or celebrities of the society.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">People who are averse to reading may not have the patience to read these.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now those minuscule numbers of individuals who happen to read these may not agree to these ideas or thoughts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">People keep opposing ideas or thoughts of others. <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-do-people-keep-opposing-opinions-of.html" target="_blank">Click here to know why?</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why do we have conflicts too often? <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2019/05/reasons-for-problems-of-our-world-how.html" target="_blank">Click here to know more</a>!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">For example what possible errors we as individuals, societies or as nations keep doing that cause pandemics such as Covid-19. <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2020/04/covid-19-pandemic-by-new-corona-virus.html" target="_blank">Click here to know what this author think about it</a>!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Does our democratic systems of governance has any thing to do with out problems? <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-democracy-evolve-to-stupid.html" target="_blank">Click here to know</a>!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are there any method by which we can improve our societies or nations? <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-should-be-done-to-make-my-country.html" target="_blank">Click here to read the thoughts of the author</a>!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">I find most people do have some enthusiasm in life with several passions that keep them going. But what happens when your enthusiasms overtake your wisdom? <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2015/09/what-happens-when-your-enthusiasm.html" target="_blank">Read this thought</a>!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">How do you feel about these thoughts?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Would you share this or any of these articles with any of your friends or family?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If not would you mind expressing your views in the comments below?</span></p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-41253416483111845352021-06-08T16:14:00.003+05:302021-06-08T16:16:48.615+05:30Electronic Voting Machines: Can They Be Fully Reliable?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Electronic Voting Machine is a programmable electronic gadget that can be used for casting votes in any democratic process of electing representatives by majority votes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now the question is whether the use of this machine is fully reliable without any risk of manipulations by vested interests?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The straight forward answer is a simple 'No'.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That is because of the inherent design feature of any electronic gadget that is essentially programmable.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Conducting elections for democratically deciding the elected representatives who would eventually form the government is not a simple process for any nation. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The process becomes very complex and expensive for countries like India with large population and several other constraints. India, like most other nations, had been using the paper ballot system for almost all elections prior to 2014. But as an experiment, it had used the electronic voting system for the first time in 1982. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interested readers may click this hyperlink to read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_India" target="_blank">the Wikipedia article on the Electronic Voting in India</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">A few other nations too tried using electronic voting system. But most of them have either abandoned the system or limited its use because of the serious unreliability issues observed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now only very few countries use EVMs fully for their general elections. Some countries use them selectively while many have totally withdrawn or even banned electronic voting. </span></p><h1 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">You may use this link to see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_by_country" target="_blank">the Wikipedia article on the status of electronic voting</a> in various countries! </span></h1><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In India, however, the EVMs have been now used for all general elections even when there are rising apprehensions about its reliability and potential for manipulations by independent </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">assessors! </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interested readers <a href="https://indiaevm.org/" target="_blank">may visit this page</a> for one such study report.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The machines used in India are manufactured by central public sector companies such as Indian Telephone Industries Limited and the Electronic Corporation of India Limited. They are reportedly fully designed indigenously without any foreign technology back up. The Election Commission of India and the Government of India, maintain that these machines are highly reliable.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But at least a section of the people of India and several political parties have been expressing their apprehensions. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are several opinions for and against the electronic voting system as being adopted in India now.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is <a href="https://thewire.in/politics/elections-2019-election-commission-evm" target="_blank">one that tells about the apprehensions</a>. (Click the hyperlink to read)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cong-leaders-question-reliability-of-evms-ec-asserts-they-are-tamper-proof/articleshow/79154503.cms" target="_blank">another newspaper report some time ago</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">And there are several in support as well that one can search and find in the internet <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/evms-absolutely-robust-and-tamper-proof-says-ec-after-congress-raises-questions-on-reliability/articleshow/79150549.cms?from=mdr" target="_blank">like this one</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But as an individual voter in India, I feel that a system that is felt as non reliable by at least a minor section of the people, should not be used, as elections to elect peoples' representatives to form governments in a democratic system should be above doubts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some may argue that all governmental actions are debatable and get support as well as opposition. That may be right. But the Election Commission is constitutionally maintained outside the purview of government as a constitutionally safeguarded independent authority because it needs to be above doubts!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The basic question to be answered is why most of the advanced nations are not using electronic voting system for general elections even now. Why several nations have banned it? Why several nations have reverted back to paper ballots? Is India so superior in electronic information technology to device electronic voting machines that are independent of human interventions in between the voting process?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">No convincing answers from any source other than assertions! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is something behind it. Isn't it?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-55675681734479508482021-03-16T12:12:00.000+05:302021-03-25T12:10:45.950+05:30Why Do People Keep Opposing Opinions Of Others?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whether you tell a truth or an untruth, chances are that you find a majority of your colleagues, family members, relatives, peers and even good friends around you might disagree with you. If you have a majority who agree with your opinions, you need to consider yourself as a lucky guy or gal.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In this regard I consider myself not so lucky!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now when someone disagrees with you for no reason that you can logically think of, you get dejected and unhappy. And an inner happiness does set in when someone likes your opinion!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And that happiness is the driving force that is making social media giants such as Facebook to mint millions!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When someone disagrees with you, you might either try to reason with that person with more of your logics in an effort to make that opposition to go off or withdraw unhappily just to avoid a collision of opposing ideas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you and your fellows around are non compromising on your opinions, then collisions of ideas progress forward to conflicts. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Severe conflicts can further develop to destructive enmity!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This situation is encountered by every individual in some manner when they have to interact with others.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Differences in opinions then create conflicts, both minor and major.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are husband-wife differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are parent-child differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are brother-sister differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are family-family differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are group-group differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are religion-religion differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are nation-nation differences and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And all conflicts are causes for destruction of peace!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And we all say we are peace loving!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Humans are not like animals, we keep saying.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We all love to live in peace and harmony!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But we are unable to do it. Conflicts keep taking place both internally and externally, destroying our peace!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you noticed this? Within our mind itself, there are differing opinions and conflicts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you ever thought of the reasons for this to happen?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whether you ever thought about it or not, the reasons are very simple and I can list those here. But you may not agree with me and most likely differ in your opinion for the same reasons!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yet I am listing those below:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Reason No.1: Differing Mind Capacities</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All human beings are unique, intelligent creatures. They are not created equal by their creators. Yet they are with abilities by which they can enhance their inherent shortcomings to a considerable extent, though not fully. So long as their mind capacities differ from one another, their mutual understandings can differ. So they can agree to each other in those aspects where their understandings are same or similar. In other areas even while one may be fully right, the other can differ.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Some mind capacities are simple while some are not so simple. For example, mind capacities required for day to day living may not be very difficult for most people to understand in the same manner. In this too, understanding can be different when there exist some physical short comings among people.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But higher truths that require extensive learning and experience can only be appreciated in more or less same manner only when all the persons concerned have acquired that kind of a mind capacity by learning and experiencing. This is the area where most differences occur that get enhanced to conflicts and enmities. Science, history, religion, politics and the like come under this </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">category. That is because most people have undergone some learning and experience in these but most have not acquired it well but only partially. Partial knowledge and experience can lead to much problems and conflicts!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Truths involving philosophy or spirituality are still more difficult and all persons may not possess the physiological brain capacity to understand those equally. Hence, in this area differences can be more. But such differences may not always escalate to larger conflicts because most with the biologic shortcomings do not venture often to express their disagreements!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Reason No.2: Human Desire to Boss over Others</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Most of us have an inherent desire to be the king or ruler or boss over others. While no human is perfect with all skills, knowledge or abilities we are supposed to be of some service to others always. We need to help others where we have better abilities and in turn get help from others for those things where our abilities are limited. Leadership or administration is just another skill like doing a mason's job or a carpenter's job. That is the way in which our creators have made us. In other words, a leader is just another of our fellow with some leadership qualities while he cannot be a mason or a carpenter for which he does not have any skill or ability. Both are required for our society to progress and none should feel bigger or smaller. Unfortunately there exist a tendency in us by which we consider another one's job superior in which we lack ability. In this process it is quite natural that we all start considering the work of a leader or administrator most simple and desirable than all other. In turn by our ignorance we make the leader's position more and more enviable and lucrative that we all tend to do any thing to get a leader's position even when we lack the ability to do it well. In turn we develop a tendency to boss over others whenever we get the slightest opportunity. Disagreeing to the opinions of those when we have nothing to fear can develop out of this complex suppressed desire to become a boss!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Reason No.3: Projecting Self or Ego</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The desire to boss over others can make those with inadequate mind capacities to go out of way to project self importance! Such persons become too egoistic and cannot tolerate any one who do not agree with them or give them due importance. Normally ego develops in inferior people or those with some kind of mind shortcomings. Since they are the ones who do anything for satisfying their self importance, in an under developed society of majority people with such shortcomings, many times we find such people getting their way to leadership positions. Once they get in to such positions, their egoistic nature becomes devilish and they often do much harm to the society. Egoistic leaders and people hardly give any importance to good advice or opinions from others. They always tend to consider themselves as right. They consider opinions of others like them who are trying to please them for some hidden agenda with opinions falsely made just to please them. This process is called sycophancy!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Reason No.4: Fear of the Unknown</u></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lack of adequate knowledge, skill and experience leads to fear. Most often people who live in a society where egoistic, devilish rulers have been in governance can become starved of adequate knowledge, experience and unreasonably fearsome. They lose their ability to judge whether their fear is reasonable or not! They fear telling the truths where they know fully well that it is true! They also fear supporting good things and facts that often lead to the development of a society of falsehoods! All this happen because the fearful people do not have the courage to confront falsehoods! They often like to become sycophants or supporters of other people who are egoistic with much desire to become the boss!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Differing opinions leading to conflicts in the society is not a desirable situation and it can hamper progress and development to a considerable extent. A society with much differences is good soil for evil to develop that ultimately harm individuals and the society itself.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Since most individuals are with some mind characteristics that lead to differences that cannot be sorted out by logic or facts, such a society and its individuals are bound to suffer. Often, generations would be required for such a society to eliminate its differences! That's because every new generation of individuals is in some way better than their immediate ancestors. And that is a mandate of the creators of humanity! Yet, no miracle normally happens in just one generation! </span></p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-3361386367393326412021-02-19T12:24:00.036+05:302021-06-01T12:22:58.676+05:30What Could Be the Reasons for Unprecedented Petroleum Product Price Rise and Slow Covid Vaccination in India?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">India is the largest populated nation in the world. It is a constitutional democracy where democratic system of governance has been in operation for the past over 7 decades. It is a federation of states where the central government and the state governments have powers to enact and administer laws in accordance with the written Constitution.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the event of any disputes or contradictions in the laws, the Supreme Court of India is empowered to intervene to set things right!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though democracy might be the best form of government for the best kind of people with reasonably high knowledge and wisdom, it may not be the case for a nation like India where the average Indian has not attained that kind of a stature so far!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, the average Indian is a mediocre or perhaps below mediocre individual. For that kind of people, democracy deteriorates over time to yield governments by mediocre or below mediocre individuals! Unfortunately, the best kind of people though available in large numbers but less than the mediocre are often overpowered in a democracy that has adopted adult franchise as the democratic election process.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">A nation with a complex population with varying individual or group understanding, likes and qualities, complexities in administration are quite natural. And when such complexities are dealt by a mediocre group of law makers, administrators, media and judiciary, the complexities of the nation are bound to rise with time. In such a democracy, people keep facing problems of various kinds continuously for several decades. They use their democratic powers to change their mediocre administrators but may not find success because they have only mediocre fellows to be selected as the replacements or their own mediocre abilities keep failing them from getting the desired outcome of good governance.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indian citizens have been witnessing such a phenomena for quite some time. They felt that their government was not doing any thing to control prices of essential commodities such as petrol and diesel and the ministers in government talked and showed arrogance that they could not tolerate any more. That was the case prior to 2014 when the Indian National Congress and its allies in the name of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) were ruling the nation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Indians easily got carried away by the other major opposition group called the National Democratic Alliance, NDA, led by the Bharatiya Janatha Party or BJP. People believed what they told. The secular appeasement of minority religions of the nation by UPA was the reason told by BJP for rising prices and lack of opportunities!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So they voted the ruling UPA out of power and installed NDA to do good governance of the nation, in 2014! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The new group in power on a fine evening declared withdrawal of certain currency notes in circulation, a step that is noted in history as the 'demonetization' step. The motivation for this step was told as for eliminating black money concentrations in the hands of many in the form of unaccounted cash. The idea was perhaps good, but its unplanned and haphazard implementation did more harm than good.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This one step caused great problems to millions of people in India. More than the direct problems it affected the lower level economic activities of the nation in an unprecedented manner. It caused unceremonious closure of millions of business activities of the nation which so far had been predominantly working on a currency based system. But no one ever noticed it as none had the ability to view the country as a whole! But it began to show in tax collections by the central and the state governments. But the mediocre administrators preferred to ignore the signs!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some mediocre bureaucrats who happened to be near to the top administration of the political bosses in governance seemed to have advised the latter for the need of quick implementation of what is now known as the GST system of taxation for improving the falling tax collections! The new system had double advantages, they told the bosses! Most importantly, the new system would make all tax money to go to the central government account and the latter would later allot the states' share. It can be used as a whip to control those states ruled by those not liked by the individuals in the central government! Besides, the new system is fully computerized and that will make any attempt of tax evasion by any business fellow, impossible! Interestingly, the GST system was something that was adopted by several progressive nations that was getting planned for implementation by the Congress led UPA government and vehemently opposed by the BJP when not in power.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">But when BJP led NDA captured power and formed the new government in 2014, they immediately seemed in agreement with the previous government. This happens because in several instances, the policies are framed by the bureaucracy which for all practical purposes remains the same.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the new political masters hastily approved the idea without much thoughts or preparations. The mediocre bureaucrats implemented it too quickly by issuing orders after orders. They never gave any thought of the practical difficulties that would be faced by the good majority of remaing business community with so many complex rules and procedures to be adopted by them! The illustrious individuals in the government considered it unimportant to make the business people understand the system and get experienced with it! They simply thought that harsh punishments and fines would make every one fall in line too quickly! So the GST system of commercial taxation was adopted in a fully digital and networked system by executive orders. It had to be operated with faulty or inadequate computer network, server computers and perhaps a hastily made up software system!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This caused havocs to millions of small and medium scale business groups to the extent that their operating profits and cash flows got affected adversely. Many businesses that survived the demonetization a few months earlier now became unviable and became sick in a matter of months! Perhaps only the large businesses with enough resources could overcome those quickly. The bureaucratic and political individuals in governance paid little attention to the falling tax collections. They simply didn't do much to help the tax payers overcome the difficulties due to unplanned administrative actions. They failed to save the businesses who were earlier paying handsome amounts as both income and commercial taxes!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cascading effect of this was closure of millions of businesses, both manufacturers and traders. Yet none thought it important to look in to it! The effect was not immediately visible to the public. But it was clearly visible to the government. Their tax collections were falling drastically!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But how can a group of mediocre people in governance admit their wrong decisions? Only high caliber people are broadminded enough to admit follies. Mediocre people are highly egoistic in nature. They can never ever admit their own mistakes! When they are too reluctant to admit mistakes, how can they ever look for rectification of mistakes?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">Due to corruption, inefficiency, wrong policies, high ambition to enhance military and policing have been causing Indian governance a high cost affair. Indian governments have not been able to have enough resources to fast forward economic development to satisfactory levels comparable to other nations with good infrastructure, social security, healthcare, literacy, employment opportunities and reasonable per capita income. They have been with ambitious plans without enough monetary resources to implement the plans properly in time. Regretably, those in key administrative positions never made any proper plans for having a balanced budgetary roadmap for governance!</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">They seemed to ignore the fact that a robust economic stability is essential for the governments too to gain financially. Heavily taxing the burdened economy was the only method they knew!</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">And that constrained the economic activities of the nation. When people have lesser incomes, they cut spending on goods and services that are not so essential. That in turn causes downward shift in the markets affecting business profitability. In turn tax collections too get affected adversely.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">To add to the woes of the Indian economy, the Covid-19 lock downs also came into effect in 2020.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the Indian government and consequently, the state governments have begun to lose revenue and income by way of tax collections. Instead of quickly adopting rectification of the problem, they preferred to adopt other methods.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">And one such other method was enhancing the taxes of essential commodities like petrol, diesel, gas, aviation turbo fuel etc. The high taxation on the other hand are making more and more businesses to become unprofitable and unviable.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So now India is in a vicious circle. It is increasing the taxes for enhancing the governments' income without attempting any thing to reduce its several wasteful expenditures. The higher taxes are reducing the profits of businesses and their tax contributions.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's making the government to increase taxes further! That in turn is making prices of all commodities to rise in an unprecedented manner. Covid lockdowns for over an year has almost caused drastic reduction in the income of people in the unorganized sector. In turn their spending too has come down affecting the markets.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">As profitability of several corporate entities got affected, performance linked pay hikes of majority employees got adversely affected.</font><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">Employment opportunities in India fell drastically! Unemployment is rising!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">All these have drastically affected the financial stability of the central and state governments. They are constrained to spent money for essential things like buying Covid vaccines for the people in a timely manner. But like a brave head of any ruined family they're showing a brave face by borrowing from all sources known! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where are we going?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who has got the courage to bell the cat?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you ask me, only the people have the power for that. Indian people have to think while electing their representatives such as members of the parliament or state assemblies. They have to use their precious democratic power to make the individuals in politics and bureaucracy to do the service of proper governance wisely and for the benefit of the nation and its people.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">They should learn to reject people without character, competence, compassion and courage who are fielded by political gangs for getting elected as their representatives. They should learn to reject people who are merely slaves of their political bosses who play from behind the curtains!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">They should support political parties who have logical manifestos for making overall improvement to the nation rather than those with vague or twisted agendas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most importantly, the people should use their common sense to weed out evil political outfits who adopt all kinds of tricks to fool people to capture the power to govern the nation to fulfill their own vested interests rather than the nation and its people!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">When that's done, India will have good governance by good people who would be in a position to find out and implement better methods of administration.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such a government in India, like several other better governed nations, would not be required to tax people to suffocation! Such a government in India would use every rupee collected judiciously for the welfare of its people!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">Indians would then be proud of their democracy and no more would be cursing the demoncracy that they have been subjected to so far!</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">Is there any hope?</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-82087442110375492952021-02-08T13:49:00.002+05:302021-02-08T15:33:08.576+05:30Why did the three Central Farm Laws of India Enacted in 2020 Become Controversial?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">First let us find out what exactly are these three controversial farm laws of India enacted in 2020. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Essentially, these three laws comprise of the following two new central laws and an existing law amended. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The two new acts that got passed by the Indian Parliament and became laws are the following:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020. ( <a href="http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2020/222039.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here to Read it in the e-gazette!</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020. (<a href="https://www.prsindia.org/sites/default/files/bill_files/Farmers%20%28Empowerment%20and%20Protection%29%20Agreement%20on%20Price%20Assurance%20and%20Farm%20Service%20Act%2C%202020.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here to Read Online!</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Concurrently the existing Essential Commodities Act got amended to make the laws consistent with the existing laws by promulgating an Ordinance as below:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020. (<a href="http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2020/219748.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here to Read it Online!</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am not going to the details of the clauses of these laws and amendments. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Essentially what these new laws achieve is de-regulation of essential food items grown by farmers all over the country. So far, farm produces were regulated by various laws and rules. Free movement, storage or trading of farm produces have been under various government controls.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the above said laws in actual operation across India, the existing practices would become a thing of the past! Both farmers and traders get freed of government regulations! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a way it's good for everyone when viewed in an innocent manner.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But things won't go that simple when greedy merchants and business houses get a free hand to operate unregulated. There are all chances that such forces would now get ample opportunities to work out things in their favor and the sufferers would be the original farm producers and the consuming public!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unscrupulous traders and business people with their money power can create situations in which farmers are forced to sell their produces at throw away prices during harvest season and hoard those produces indefinitely to create shortages and price rise, exploiting the consumers too. In effect a few large business groups with the ability to mobilize large funds would be in a position to make huge profits!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both the farmers and the consuming public are going to suffer while a few would get opportunities to make extreme profits with no effective regulations in force!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If one examine carefully, it can be found that the existing provisions in the Indian Constitution and the laws had been to safeguard against such an undesirable situation getting developed in the country!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Obviously, these laws can only do good when the business community in India, doing businesses in farm produces, is essentially good and non-greedy. Unfortunately, that's not the case! A few unscrupulously greedy businessmen or corporates can make a small percentage of people getting richer while a larger percentage of people struggling for existence!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That means grave consequences for the common people of India in the time to come when these laws become fully operational. Farmers might not get reasonable prices for their efforts while the consuming public might face rising prices year after year in essential commodities including food items such as grains, cereals, vegetables, fruits, oils etc. And the governments in the country cannot interfere as they used to do so far!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The haste in which the present government of India enacted these laws bypassing some constitutional provisions creates suspicion in the mind of any unbiased citizen capable of understanding these laws and the Indian economy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now only some farmers from a few states surrounding New Delhi are protesting in an uncompromising manner as they seem to be the first ones who are directly affected by these laws. They're demanding withdrawal of these laws immediately!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many citizens like me wonder why the government is rigid on this! There's no sense or logic for any well meaning government to go this far against a long, massive people's agitation of such a magnitude!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">Only time will tell what's going to happen in India with the new farm laws of India enforced!</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">What's perplexing than these laws or the agitations, is the blind support the government of India is getting now from sections of the society on account of political polarizations!</font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-51446138517344115122020-12-24T13:31:00.002+05:302020-12-24T13:31:33.476+05:30Wondering How Bloggers Make Money by Blogging? Important Things Bloggers Should Know!<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blogging is one of the first and foremost important method by which pieces of knowledge are created and stored in the various public domain computers networked in the world wide web called the internet.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information so created by systematically typing, editing articles that are useful for others for knowing something they do not know much, but are interested to know are now called web logs or blogs. Blogs typically contain information in the form of texts, diagrams, images or video clips. These are all contents and blog writers or creators are also called content creators. Now-a-days, more and more people are attracted towards contents created in the form of video clips because videos are more effective in communicating ideas when created properly. Video blogs are now-a-days called Vlogs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additionally there are contents created exclusively for entertainment or leisure. When texts, images, audio, video are all used for content creation, then we may call it multimedia content.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Several companies help content creators with useful software or application platforms by which contents can be created, edited, saved and shared publicly or privately using the internet using various kinds of computer or mobile browsers. They are the social media platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, YouTube, Facebook, etc. Search engine software such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc help in finding useful content available as saved in the internet server computers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Social media companies employ thousands of people for managing the social media platforms and spend huge money while attempting to gain profits too.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apparently, social media appear as free services for the users, but essentially nothing is free. They are all there for mutual benefits to every one.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most common model by which social media companies make money is from advertisements of various kinds. In turn they share a part of their ad incomes with content creators such as blog writers and vlog creators.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzrWjjWWQRS-p2r3Sw56HKQ7KGa2wcejAKFA3YxPWUBqLeKRBxurjd3EBlvYeLdU4f8seQF8e8RMpsukXmgGJxyCCy-fRxXLcyATG6s9lEHZqOTEwaBdetpcPB1KGdPWHusd5EwXug1uhm/s868/Picture1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzrWjjWWQRS-p2r3Sw56HKQ7KGa2wcejAKFA3YxPWUBqLeKRBxurjd3EBlvYeLdU4f8seQF8e8RMpsukXmgGJxyCCy-fRxXLcyATG6s9lEHZqOTEwaBdetpcPB1KGdPWHusd5EwXug1uhm/s320/Picture1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Blog Page with Ads placed by Google Adsense</div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ads are basically for selling goods and services online. When ads reach more and more people, chances of more and more people procuring goods and services increase and sellers profits start increasing. In turn they spend money for ads. Social media ads in Google, YouTube, Blogger, WordPress, etc are therefore on the rise.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus content creators in social media platforms too get opportunity for making money provided their content pages are viewed by more and more people.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now a days millions of freelance and paid content creators are creating and uploading billions of pieces of information over the internet. Similarly billions of internet pages are visited by internet users day in and day out. However, all contents are not viewed in the same rate. Some are viewed and shared by thousands of people in a short time. Such social media information pieces spread like viral disease and hence called 'viral'. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In social media, content that is viral is potentially good for gaining some money.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the pioneering years of the internet, search engines such as Google helped content to reach users who searched for useful content for them using 'key words'</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But today, information also gets to many people when they 'share' content that they think as good or important with their friends or groups.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the above background, it is easy to realize the main points that content creators should keep in mind when they create social media content and expect to make some good money by such an effort.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us see those points one by one:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. The content created must be your own original creation and not copied from other sources. You may use information spread out in different places but it should never be something copied in part or full. Internet search engines usually discard copied information originally available elsewhere.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. Your content should convey some useful thing by way of information or entertainment to the viewers.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. It should be created using some popular creation platform in an appealing manner. Images, diagrams and video clips can enhance viewership. Blogger by Google, WordPress, YouTube, Facebook are the commonly used social media platforms. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. Your content should be easily downloadable by most computers and mobile sets. If your page uses complex layouts with heavy data, the user may not be able to get your page full in a short time. In other words, your page is not easy to get loaded in a user device. If that happens, users normally exit from it quickly and do not bother to view or read it fully.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. Your page design must be proper for ads to be placed appealingly.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">6. It is important that you share your content both with your friends and with the public when you made it for getting some income from ads.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">6. When your content is too useful and when your viewership exceeds more than say 2500 in a day, you may start gaining some ad income. As the viewership goes higher, your chances of getting ad incomes paid by the social media companies also increase.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">7. To get income from the social media companies like Google, you may have to register your YouTube channel or Blog site so created with them giving all relevant information asked. Google AdSense is a commonly used ad placement system.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">8. It is also possible for you to gain ad income personally by negotiating with advertisers separately. However, for this to be effective, your daily viewership should be to the tune of thousands or more.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-14369058105610112942020-10-27T07:58:00.000+05:302020-10-27T07:58:20.656+05:30How Boy Jesus Stopped Pursuing His Artistic Pastime: An Episode From the Childhood Days of Jesus! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As per the modern calender that we follow today, Jesus Christ was 9 years old in the year 3 AD. He used to attend the school attached to the Synagogue of the Jews as per the prevailing practice of that time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By this time Jesus' family had shifted from Alexandria in Egypt and moved back to Galilee, a place in his Jewish homeland. School facilities were better in Alexandria. But by moving to Galilee, Jesus had got a better opportunity to mingle with a larger group of people from all walks of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;">School in his new environment went on and he was still a favored pupil. The school allowed one week's holiday each month at liberty, and he continued to divide his time about equally between trips to neighboring cities with his father. He also got opportunities to spent time on his uncle’s farm south of Nazareth, and to go for fishing excursions out from </span><a class="externallink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.25s; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 17.999940872192383px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><b>Magdala</b></span></a><a class="externallink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.25s; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009933; line-height: 17.999940872192383px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The most serious trouble as yet to come up at school occurred in late winter when Jesus dared to challenge the chazan ( <i>Khazen or Hassen, the person who manages the synagogue services</i>) regarding the teaching that all images, pictures, and drawings were idolatrous in nature. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;">Jesus delighted in drawing landscapes as well as in modeling a great variety of objects in potter’s clay. Unfortunately, e</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;">verything of that sort was strictly forbidden by Jewish law. But up to this time he had managed to disarm his parents’ objection to such an extent that they had permitted him to continue in these activities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But trouble was again stirred up at school when one of the more backward pupils discovered Jesus drawing a charcoal picture of the teacher on the floor of the schoolroom. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;">There it was, plain as day, and many of the elders had viewed it before the committee (<i>of the synagogue school</i>) went to call on </span>Joseph (<i>earthily </i> <i>father of Jesus</i>)<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"> to demand that something be done to suppress the lawlessness of his eldest son. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;">And though this was not the first time complaints had come to Joseph and </span>Mary (earthily <i>mother of Jesus</i>)<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"> about the doings of their versatile and aggressive child, this was the most serious of all the accusations which had thus far been lodged against him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Boy Jesus listened to the indictment of his artistic efforts for some time, being seated on a large stone just outside the back door. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He resented their blaming his father for his alleged misdeeds; so in he marched, fearlessly confronting his accusers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The elders were thrown into confusion. Some were inclined to view the episode humorously, while one or two seemed to think the boy was sacrilegious (<i>disrespectful of the religious rules</i>) if not blasphemous (<i>disrespectful to God</i>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mary endeavored to influence Joseph to permit Jesus to model in clay at home, provided he promised not to carry on any of these questionable activities at school, but Joseph felt impelled to rule that the rabbinical interpretation of the second commandment should prevail. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2d; line-height: 17.999940872192383px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And so Jesus no more drew or modeled the likeness of anything from that day as long as he lived in his father’s house. </span></span></div>
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Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-77968353063506843642020-06-25T10:39:00.001+05:302020-06-25T10:39:59.971+05:30Get-n-Gain-Infotech-Ideas: Interested in Buying a Flat in Prime Location in t...<a href="https://get-n-gain-infotech-ideas.blogspot.com/2019/11/interested-in-buying-flat-in-prime.html?spref=bl">Get-n-Gain-Infotech-Ideas: Interested in Buying a Flat in Prime Location in t...</a>: This article is for those thinking of buying a residential property in the beautiful city of Bhilai . This author lived in the s...Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-27394961396950935622020-04-16T15:56:00.000+05:302020-04-17T04:28:11.559+05:30Covid-19 Pandemic by New Corona Virus: What Possible Errors We Did for it to Happen?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Covid-19 pandemic threat caused by the New Corona Virus has already caused a panic response from almost all governmental authorities. The governments of almost all countries have forced economic shut downs and stay@home orders for weeks now. Never in our life we have seen such a situation in which the human activities have come to a stand still like this for weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We the people of this earth are either facing sickness and death by the virus or untold miseries caused by new rules ordered by the governmental authorities globally. Our worries keep increasing because we are not sure of what's going to happen next!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many are also worrying and thinking about the possible causes of such a thing to happen now. I too keep thinking. I have come across some reasons for this to happen. It</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is based on my logical reasoning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The inputs for deducing these are based on some information that I gained in the past from my involvement in the development of micro-organisms for some difficult industrial use. Besides, some knowledge pieces I gained from the Urantia Book-the great book about which I had written in several of my blog articles in this site- have also provided valuable clues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I very well know that in the present world order, independent individual opinions do not get much attention or value. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet I dare to write and publish this blog article in this blog site 'for whomsoever it might be of interest or concern'!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following are what I have to say in this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>The Novel Corona Virus with its adversary features has come into existence because some existing corona viruses have undergone some rapid haphazard environmental changes or mutations due to certain errors that we humans have done in the recent past knowingly or unknowingly!</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Micro-organisms are the first evolutionary step in the development of life on earth. According to the Urantia Book, it is not an accidental happening, but something purposefully done by the invisible agencies of God, the source of life and energy in the universe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The method of creation of micro cells intermediary between living and non-living matter, such as the viruses and the single plant cells such as bacteria, is a long process adopted for gradual controlled evolutionary progress towards the creation of higher material living beings such as plants, animals and later humans by certain agencies of the Universal Creator. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, creation is not a magical process, but a complex evolutionary process appropriately controlled by several invisible agencies of God. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ultimate aim of this controlled evolution is for the creation of intelligent life, in any evolutionary planet anywhere in the universe, similar to human beings of earth. Living beings similar to humans are special material creatures because they possess certain mind abilities to know the invisible presence of God that enable them to get transformed to unique universe personalities with endless life after their material life ends. All humans are potentially capable of acquiring endless living in the universe. To achieve that humans have to follow divine rules of the universe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Divine agencies supervising controlled evolutionary progress in a material world like earth stop their periodic interventions the moment a few human beings with mind power to realize the invisible presence of God come into existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All living forms made of simple or complex material cells, are bound to undergo the birth and death processes of evolutionary development. Once a living specie comes in to existence, its further material progress happens more or less independently without the help of the divine agencies. So all material species once created by controlled evolution retain their features for several generations without much change. However, they do undergo life adaptations or permanent extinction depending on the environment. Life adaptations take place due to genetic permutations and combinations that come into effect through certain inbuilt biologic reproductive mechanisms. Such changes in higher animals such as humans happen over centuries because their life span is in the order of decades while it is relatively short for lower end micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria that have life spans of only days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus it is possible for viruses and bacteria to get modified with marked differences in their behavior in a short time when their living environment changes either naturally or artificially in laboratories. These micro organisms, just as plants and animals, are all useful for sustenance of life on earth or any such planet. However, all species including humans can cause harm either to themselves or to others in certain conditions. That's how evolutionary material life in several material worlds of the universe are planned. At the same time the highest form of material life, the humans are provided with intelligence and wisdom to tackle all adverse situations, provided they use their God-given abilities judiciously and patiently. Unfortunately, most people on earth are either lazy or too impatient to use their intelligence properly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Humans can chose any decisions in their life because they are vested with free will. That is the ability to chose any path, right or wrong. The divine mandate is that human free will mind is not to be interfered and every individual make decisions in life according to their own sweet will. They face adverse consequences or benefits accordingly. Most of us therefore make errors in life deviating from the right path either individually or collectively. Since we are social beings, the consequences of our erroneous decisions either in the past or present affect not only the erring ones but also others around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Humans being the highly intelligent material beings on our world, undoubtedly are provided with the power of making this world the best as any heavenly worlds in the universe or as poorly managed dwelling places with all kinds of problems affecting every one. In a way, humans keep getting too many opportunities to know good and bad, by life experiences with ample opportunities for enhancing wisdom. Trials and tribulations keep transforming many human beings to enhance their capabilities while many others may feel defeated and hopeless. The most important thing that wise humans indirectly learn in this process of material life is about the existence of God, the Universal Source of everything in the universe and the development of faith in the plans and providence of God. Unfortunately, several not so wise humans do reject the concept of God due to the same life challenges on earth!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember a first time project that I had been entrusted a couple of decades ago in the largest industrial organization of India at that time- the Bhilai Steel Plant owned by Steel Authority of India- where I worked as a chemical engineer. It was to find out a way to develop a suitable process plant for effectively treating and reusing effluent water coming out from its coal processing plants. At that time this waste water, known in the integrated iron and steel industry of the world as the phenolic waste water, was a very difficult and poisonous waste water having no known method for effective treatment. For steel industry technologists world over, managing this waste water and mitigating the environmental hazards it posed was a big challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I was entrusted this task, I hardly knew any method to solve this problem. But I had known some technical literature about the possible use of micro-organisms such as bacteria in laboratory scales elsewhere where people had undertaken experiments to transform normally available bacteria in to special hardcore bacteria that can use even the worst kind of chemicals as its food for metabolism. In other words, phenolic chemical compounds that are used to kill bacteria can be used as a nutrient to bacterial species to grow and survive, provided we could develop such kind of bacteria from normal bacteria by a process called bacterial culture development. It is a method by which normal bacteria are exposed in a step by step manner to adverse environments thereby developing a generation of bacteria that can thrive on such an environment. This takes many generations of bacteria but its not a big time frame for us, humans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used this technique in setting up a large Phenolic Effluent Treatment Plant in Bhilai Steel Plant some time in 1992 that happened to be the first such plant in the world to successfully employ cultured bacteria for that purpose in integrated steel plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While that plant continued in operation those managing it learnt about adverse mutation problems of micro organisms and the difficulties it posed to achieve the end results favorably. Sometimes, improper management of the bacteriological processes caused the processes going adverse and out of controls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we look around, it is not difficult to understand this. It happens everywhere, not only with micro-organisms but also with all living organisms. When children are reared in haphazard manner, they turn out to be difficult to manage individuals posing threat to the society. Even a good breed of puppy when reared on the street in an adverse environment can lead to the development of a street dog having bad nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Humans being entrusted with the control and management of the visible material realm of this world by our invisible divine masters, we need to do all our acts in a responsible manner while enjoying our independence and freedom of choices. If we make mistakes, we have to face the consequences. Often we learn to overcome the consequences quickly, some times we appear helpless for some longer period of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may now understand what I stated in the beginning. The new corona virus causing Covid-19 is our own creation. It may be accidental or it may be without our knowledge. But some of our errors in our acts in the past either individually or collectively have caused some </span><span style="font-size: large;">haphazard environmental changes to some of the existing viruses that created the new corona virus with changed behavior. And now that virus has developed a method that it can get in and survive in human bodies in a peculiar manner and even ruin our physical bodies for some time till we find a way to tackle it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What are the possible errors that we as a collective has done for such a virus to develop? What are those things that humans have done in the near past that caused previously known viruses that caused manageable diseases to new mutational varieties having such dreadful properties that is threatening human life on this planet?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my opinion, humans in their ambition and eagerness for a fast developing world has overlooked certain aspects that gave disease causing micro-organisms (pathogens including bacteria, viruses, etc). Our priorities have been faster economic growth and high profit making businesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our enthusiasm for faster development, we adopted and promoted international trade and travel. It encouraged people with differing habits and cultures to meet and intermingle too frequently. It caused viruses from one individual in one location to change its </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">environment in a haphazard manner too quickly without we even taking note.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">We developed our cities without proper thinking. We allowed mega cities to grow uncontrollable manner without even bothering to develop the required essential infrastructure such as safe water supply, safe waste water management systems, adequate solid waste management systems, air pollution control, clean water ways, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">We allowed cities to grow exponentially in a concentrated manner with populations more than several millions. We caused our low income city dwellers to live in congested slums and congested small high rise apartments with no adequate space or air circulation. The viruses got ample opportunities to jump from one person to another all living in harsh hygienic conditions causing them to develop harsher qualities of survival.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia book indicates that cities with more than a million population is not a wise thing to happen. It also indicates that human families to live in small living spaces not a wise thing to happen. It advocates a house for a family to have some free space around it. It also says mingling of differing racial communities to be done cautiously and slowly. Too fast a thing can cause accidents of time! </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is not very difficult to understand these. Overcrowding anywhere causes problems. Pathogenic micro-organisms that survive on larger organisms can spread and mutate when people live too closely and move too often.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The deadly pandemic, Corona Virus Disease or Covid-19 in short, caused by the New Corona Virus first detected in Wuhan, China sometime in December 2019, has for the first time rendered all governments of the world helpless and without any immediate solutions to effectively control the spread of the disease. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new corona virus is too infectious and an infected individual even without any outward disease symptoms can easily infect others. Researchers have found that the virus spreads from the body fluids such as saliva, phlegm, mucus, etc that comes out from an infected individual during cough, sneeze, spit, etc and can remain in the air for a few minutes and on some moist surfaces for even a couple of days. The virus enters a new person through mouth, nose and eyes. Once the virus enters a new person the person is capable of transmission to others. However, the newly infected person develops symptoms of the disease after about 14 days only. The disease starts as common cold with the person experiencing headache, body pain, fever, difficulty to breath, cough, sneezing etc gradually and within a few days, in some cases become very severe with severe lung infection requiring intensive care with ventilator aid for breathing. For the majority people, the disease cures in another about 2 weeks and by this time the body becomes resistant to the virus and the person becomes corona negative. However, it has been now observed that about 1-13% infected people can succumb to the disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pandemic has no effective medicines to treat as of now. Neither has it any vaccine that prevent its spread at present. Efforts to find medicines for its effective treatment and vaccines for preventing its spread are going on in different nations on a war footing. However, there is no surety of when those things become globally available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All these things have made Covid-19 a new life threatening challenge to all governments and authorities of the world. The most developed nations of the world such as the USA, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, UK, etc are presently the worst sufferers due to this disease. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interested readers can find facts about Covid-19 pandemic by clicking the following links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-IN&gl=IN&ceid=IN:en" target="_blank">Latest worldwide statistics of infection, cure and deaths by Google.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.trackcorona.live/" target="_blank">Track Corona Live</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is hardly any nation now that has not been affected by this viral global epidemic except a few small island nations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fortunately, there exists laboratory testing methods to test the presence of corona virus in a person, though they are costly and time consuming. However rapid tests that are less expensive and quicker have also been developed and are made available in many countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Medical experts and virus researchers <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enIN851IN851&sxsrf=ALeKk03FxatXeyVSY_2ut2LP9ZsL_Y7Pfw%3A1586581621695&ei=dVCRXp33KZbfrQHzlragBg&q=covid+19+preventive+measures&oq=covid+19+preve&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgBMgUIABCDATIFCAAQgwEyAggAMgIIADIFCAAQzQIyBQgAEM0COgQIIxAnOgoIABCDARAUEIcCShAIFxIMMTAtMTM1ZzBnMjkzSgwIGBIIMTAtNWcwZzJQ3EZY4U5gtG5oAHAAeACAAaYCiAGHCZIBBTAuNS4ymAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab" target="_blank"><b>advice several measures</b></a> for preventing the spread of the virus and the deadly disease. Forceful stay@home instructions coupled with full or partial economic shutdowns have been already implemented by most nations of the world now to prevent the virus from spreading at geometric progression rates. The world has never seen such a mass scale shutdown of human activities in its known history so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the first time in the modern history of our world, all public transportation by all means have come to a stand still now. All religious gatherings in churches, mosques, temples and prayer halls are prevented. Excepting a few essential shops, all shopping centers, markets, etc are closed. Cities all over the world are practically deserted. No one living now has ever seen such a thing before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The economic shut downs have been forced upon by the governments as a possible method to prevent the spread of the virus to uncontrollable levels. None of the governments had the time to think and implement more effective and practical methods. These steps, though have been thought of helpful in preventing the quick spread of the disease, have invariably also caused innumerable human miseries to thousands of people. As forceful shutdowns have been implemented for long duration in a very short notice, thousands of people got stranded worldwide without any means of getting back to their homes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Almost all economic activities have almost come to a standstill. Though the governments are working hard to keep essential food and medicine supplies intact, it cannot be gauged as foolproof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The economic shutdowns in many nations and places are on for more than two weeks now. Many authorities are contemplating extending the shutdowns further as Covid-19 has not come under any effective control so far. The infection and deaths are slowly rising!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, no one has come up with any other effective method other than economic shut down to tackle the corona virus, so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Under the present situation, there is no doubt, the measures adopted by the governments together with the pandemic have crippled the national and world economies to such levels than any one can think of. If the blanket economic shutdowns are forced ahead, billions of people in this world are destined to die of either Covid or starvation in the near future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whether Covid-19 is effectively reined by invention of effective medical methods or not, practical administrative methods with due thoughts need to be in place to prevent the economies to collapse to cause greater human miseries than that by the pandemic itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, thoughtless shutdowns has to be ended and economic activities with effective safeguards must go hand in hand with other pandemic prevention activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being a retired technocrat who had experienced handling of unforeseen emergency situations in large organizations in the past, though not of this kind, I feel that our experienced professionals in the government service can find effective methods of running the economy concurrently with steps of preventing corona virus spread, provided they are given time to think and plan properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My suggestions to the authorities are a few as given below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Let not the police to create fear and panic in the society by over enthusiastic forcing of stay@home and economic shut downs. Let them be instructed to be logical in their acts of preventing crowd formation anywhere. Let them not terrorize individual citizens and families who are outside their residences moving or standing peacefully who have taken all practical steps to prevent virus infection such as safe distancing, wearing masks and the like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Let all business organizations to do their respective business activities after they work out amendments in individual standard operating practices for all work procedures taking care of corona virus infection prevention strictly. Let the business organisation be held responsible for any spread of virus in their workforce attributable to unsafe work practices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Let the authorities allow all loading, unloading and transport of all goods by all transport means by taking due precautions while doing these activities. Let the authorities approve and monitor standard operating practices for safe goods handling on a case to case basis as prepared by professional experts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. Let production centers, factories and service providers be allowed to function after implementing safe operating practices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6. Let the authorities examine, approve and monitor the safe operating practices of all economic activities in their respective jurisdiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7. Let the authorities take steps to avoid all kinds of crowd formation any where including religious or entertainment venues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8. Let public and private transports like commercial flights, trains, buses, trucks, ships etc be allowed to function with due care in sanitation and preventing crowding and social contacting in a restrictive manner as per well defined procedures. Let the fares be raised during the restrictive period to take care of the economic viability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9. Let hospitals be segregated for infectious and non infectious diseases by carefully modifying hospital management systems of all health care facilities. Let all healthcare facilities be periodically checked for corona virus infections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">10. Quarantine all infected and possibly infected individuals strictly either at their homes or at specified medical facilities till they are certified negative for corona virus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11. Let currency and cash transactions be strictly curtailed to the minimum possible levels. Let money transactions be through contact less digital payment methods like Paytm or internet banking where need for handling currency of cards or public machines are totally avoided. Authorities to make rules for such payment methods simpler by modifying their respective KYC norms etc to practically possible levels instead of the stringent impractical methods as existing at present (e.g. requirements of physical verification of documents should be dispensed with)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">16. All organisations including governmental may be allowed to cut salaries of their top paid employees who draw more than five times the emoluments of their lowest paid employee appropriately if the organization is financially constrained. In a similar way governments may think of reducing highly paid pensions and enhance the pensions of people who avail very low pensions not sufficient to make a living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">17. Governments to allow all business houses with tax arrears to pay those later in easy installments in case the financial position of the firm or company has deteriorated due to covid-19 shut down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">18. Governments should allow banks and financial institutions to allow moratorium on loan re-payments to individuals and firms on a case to case basis in case the individual or firm is constrained financially due to covid-19 related shut downs or job loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">19. Governments should allow financial grants or loans to business firms that are willing to restart the lost businesses on account of the shut downs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There could be many more such things that the authorities can think and implement to overcome the economic collapse on account of the present pandemic emergency. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I wanted to highlight is the importance of eliminating panic measures without due thinking by the authorities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[The following is an article written in Malayalam language which gives some compilation of information regarding the New Corona Virus and the present day dreaded global pandemic, the Covid-19.Within a short span of time this highly contagious and deadly common cold like disease has become a worldwide pandemic that has led to panic and chaos in all nations including weeks long total shutdowns of almost all economic activities to prevent social contacts among people as a measure to prevent the virus spreading. Latest statistics about Covid-19 infections, cures, deaths etc can be obtained from this website by<a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries" target="_blank"><b> clicking this link!</b></a>]</span><br />
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ജലദോഷം, തുമ്മൽ, തൊണ്ട വേദന, ഓക്കാനം, ഛർദ്ദി, പനി, ചുമ, കഫക്കെട്ട്, ശ്വാസതടസ്സം, ശരീര വേദന, തലവേദന, തലകറക്കം, ക്ഷീണം, തുടങ്ങി പലവിധത്തിൽ പലരേയും ബാധിക്കുന്ന ഒരു രോഗമാണ് വൈറൽ പനി. ഒരിക്കൽ പോലും ഇത്തരം ജലദോഷമോ പനിയോ പിടിച്ച് വിഷമിക്കാത്തവർ ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ ആരും തന്നെ ഉണ്ടാകില്ല എന്ന് വേണമെങ്കിൽ പറയാം.</div>
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മൈക്രൊസ്കോപ്പ് കണ്ടുപിടിച്ച ശേഷമാണ് പകർച്ച വ്യാധികൾ അതി സൂക്ഷ്മ സസ്യങ്ങളോ ജീവികളോ ഒക്കെ കാരണമാണ് പടർന്നു പിടിക്കുന്നതെന്ന് ശാസ്ത്രലോകം മനസ്സിലാക്കിയത്. രോഗങ്ങൾ പരത്തുന്ന ഈ അതി സൂക്ഷ്മ ജീവജാലങ്ങളെ പറ്റി കൂടുതൽ കൂടുതൽ മനസ്സിലാക്കാനും പഠിക്കാനും മൈക്രൊ ബയോളജി എന്ന ശാസ്ത്ര ശാഖയിലൂടെ സാധ്യമായി. അവ പരത്തുന്ന രോഗങ്ങൾക്ക് പ്രതിവിധി കണ്ടെത്താനും അതിലൂടെ സാധ്യമായിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു എന്നതും നാം മനസ്സിലാക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നു.</div>
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സൂക്ഷ്മാണു ലോകത്തിൽ അതിസൂക്ഷ്മമായ ഒരുതരം അണുക്കൾ ആണ് വൈറസുകൾ. സാധാരണ മൈക്രൊസ്കോപ്പിൽ ഇവയെ കാണാൻ സാധിക്കില്ല. വളരെ ശക്തികൂടിയ ഇലക്ട്രോൺ മൈക്രൊസ്കോപ്പ് പോലുള്ള ഉപകരണങ്ങളിൽ കൂടി മാത്രമേ വൈറസുകളെ പറ്റി മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ കഴിയൂ. ഇവയെ സൂക്ഷ്മജീവികളോ, സൂക്ഷ്മ സസ്യങ്ങളോ ആയി പരിഗണിക്കാൻ ശാസ്ത്രകാരന്മാർ തയ്യാറല്ല. ജീവനില്ലാത്ത ഒരുതരം അതിസൂക്ഷ്മ പൊടി മാത്രം. എന്നാൽ അതിനു ജീവകോശങ്ങളെ ചില സാഹചര്യങ്ങളിൽ ആക്രമിക്കാനുള്ള കഴിവ് കൈവരും. മനുഷ്യരുടെയും, മൃഗങ്ങളുടെയും, സസ്യങ്ങളുടെയും ജീവകോശങ്ങളിൽ കടന്നു കൂടി അവയുടെ ജീവപ്രക്രിയകളെ വ്യതിചലിപ്പിക്കാനും നഷ്ടമാക്കാനും ഒക്കെ വൈറസുകൾക്ക് സാധിക്കും ചില സാഹചര്യങ്ങളിൽ.</div>
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ജീവനില്ലാത്ത വൈറസുകൾ ജീവനുള്ള രീതിയിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കാൻ മറ്റ് ജീവകോശങ്ങളിൽ കടന്നു കൂടിയെങ്കിലേ സാധിക്കൂ. അങ്ങനെ കടന്നു കൂടാനും മറ്റു ജീവകോശങ്ങളിൽ വളരാനും ഉള്ള സാഹചര്യം കിട്ടിയാൽ വൈറസുകൾ അതിവേഗം പെരുകും. ഈ അതിവേഗ പെരുക്കം ആണ് വൈറസുകളുടെ ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന ഒരു പ്രത്യേകത.</div>
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എന്നാൽ വൈറസുകൾ സാധാരണ ചില ദിവസങ്ങൾ മാത്രമേ മറ്റ് ജീവകോശങ്ങളിൽ കയറി അവയുടെ ജീവപ്രകൄതി കാണിക്കാറുള്ളൂ. അതായത് അവയുടെ ജീവ പ്രകൃതി അവ കയറിക്കൂടിയ ജീവിയിൽ ഏതാനും ദിവസങ്ങൾക്കുള്ളിൽ നിലച്ചു പോകുന്നു. അത്രയും നാൾ അവയുടെ ജീവപ്രക്രിയയുടെ വികൃതിയിൽ പിടിച്ചു നിൽക്കാൻ സാധിച്ചാൽ അവ കയറിക്കൂടിയ മനുഷ്യരും ജന്തുക്കളും സസ്യങ്ങളും ഒക്കെത്തന്നെ ആ വൈറൽ ആക്രമണത്തെ അതിജീവിച്ചു എന്നിരിക്കും. എതെങ്കിലും കാരണത്താൽ അതിനു സാധിക്കാതെ വന്നാൽ വൈറസുകളുടെ ആക്രമണത്തിൽ മനുഷ്യരും, ജന്തുക്കളും, സസ്യങ്ങളും മൃത്യു വരിക്കാൻ സാധ്യത ഏറെയാണ്. എന്നിരുന്നാൽ തന്നെയും ഇന്നു നാം മനസ്സിലാക്കിയിട്ടുള്ള നൂറു കണക്കിനു വൈറസുകളിൽ ഏതാനും ചിലതു മാത്രമേ മാരകമായ രോഗാവസ്ഥയ്ക്ക് കാരണം ആയി തീരുന്നുള്ളൂ. </div>
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ചില സാഹചര്യങ്ങളിൽ വൈറസുകളിൽ ജനിതക മാറ്റങ്ങൾ സംഭവിച്ച് പുതിയ തരം വൈറസുകൾ ഉടലെടുക്കാനുള്ള സാധ്യത ശാസ്ത്ര ലോകം ഇതിനൊടകം മനസ്സിലാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഈ പ്രക്രിയയെ മുതലാക്കി അതീവ അപകടകാരികളായ പുതിയ തരം വൈറസുക്കളെ പരീക്ഷണ ശാലകളിൽ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയെടുത്ത് അവയെക്കൊണ്ട് നശീകരണ ആയുധങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കാൻ ചില രാജ്യങ്ങൾ എങ്കിലും പ്രയഗ്നിക്കുന്നു എന്നതും വൈറസുകളെ ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന ഒന്നാക്കി മാറ്റിയിരിക്കുന്നു.</div>
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ഇപ്പോൾ ചൈനയിൽ ആരംഭിച്ച് ഇന്ത്യയിലടക്കം ലോകത്തിന്റെ പല ഭാഗങ്ങളിലേക്കും വ്യാപിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന കൊറോണാ വൈറസ് പനി അത്തരത്തിൽ ഒന്നാണൊ എന്നു പലരും സംശയിക്കുന്നു. ഈ പനിയ്ക്ക് ഇപ്പോൾ ഫലവത്തായ ചികിത്സ ഇല്ല എന്നതും ഈ പനി മരണ കാരണം ആകാനുള്ള സാധ്യത വളരെ കൂടുതൽ എന്നതും രോഗ ലക്ഷണങ്ങൾ പ്രകടമാകും മുമ്പേ ഒരാളിൽ നിന്നും മറ്റൊരാളിലേക്കു പകരാം എന്നതും ഈ സംശയത്തെ സാധൂകരിക്കുന്നു എന്നു പറയാതെ വയ്യ.</div>
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ഈ വൈറസ് രോഗം ചൈനയിലെ വുഹാനെന്ന പട്ടണത്തിൽ ഇപ്പോൾ പൊട്ടി മുളച്ചിട്ട് അധികം നാളുകൾ ആയില്ല. 2019 ന്റെ അവസാന മാസങ്ങളിൽ എപ്പോഴൊ ഒരു ചൈനീസ് ദന്ത ഡോക്ടർ ആണ് ഈ വൈറസ് പനി ചിലരിൽ കണ്ടെത്തിയതും അത് അസാധാരണവും മാരകവും ആയ ഒരു തരം വൈറസ് മൂലം എന്ന് മനസ്സിലാക്കി മറ്റുള്ളവരെ ബോധവൽക്കരിക്കാൻ ശ്രമിച്ചത്. എന്നാൽ ചൈനീസ് അധികാരികൾ ആദ്യമൊക്കെ ഇതിനെ കാര്യമായി എടുത്തില്ല എന്നു വേണം കരുതാൻ.<br />
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രോഗം വളരെ വേഗം പടരുവാനും അതു മൂലം ആളുകൾ മരിച്ചു വീഴുവാനും തുടങ്ങിയപ്പോൾ മാത്രമാണ് ചൈനയിലെ അധികാരികൾ ഉണർന്നത്.അപ്പോഴേക്കും അനേകം ആളുകളിലേക്ക് ഈ വൈറസ് കയറിക്കൂടിക്കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു.<br />
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കൊറോണാ വൈറസ് ഡിസീസ് 2019 എന്നതിന്റെ ചുരുക്കപ്പേരായ കോവിഡ്-19 എന്ന പേരിൽ ഈ വൈറസ് പനി ഇപ്പോൾ അറിയപ്പെടുന്നു. മുകളിൽ സൂചിപ്പിച്ചതു പോലെ ഈ മാരക വൈറസ് ചൈനയുടെ യുദ്ധ തന്ത്രത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി പണ്ടെങ്ങോ വികസിപ്പിച്ചെടുത്ത ജൈവായുധ പരീക്ഷണങ്ങളുടെ അനന്തര ഫലം എന്നു സംശയം ഇപ്പോൾ ബലപ്പെട്ടു വരുന്നു.<br />
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അതിനൊരു കാരണം ദീൻ കൂൺട്സ് എന്ന ഇംഗ്ളീഷ് എഴുത്തുകാരൻ നാലു ദശകങ്ങൾക്ക് മുമ്പ് എഴുതി പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച 'ദി ഐസ് ഓഫ് ഡാർക്ക് നസ്സ്' (അന്ധകാരത്തിന്റെ കണ്ണുകൾ) എന്ന നോവൽ ആണ്. ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിൽ രണ്ട് ശാസ്ത്രകാരന്മാർ തമ്മിൽ ചൈനയിലെ വുഹാൻ പട്ടണത്തിൽ സ്ഥിതി ചെയ്യുന്ന ജൈവായുധ പരീക്ഷണ ശാലയിൽ വികസിപ്പിച്ചു സൂക്ഷിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന വുഹാൻ-400 എന്ന മാരക വൈറസിനെ പറ്റി പ്രതിപാദിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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ഈ വൈറസിന്റെ മാരക സ്വഭാവം ഇപ്പോൾ വ്യാപിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന കോവിഡ്-19 തു പോലെ തന്നെ. മാത്രമല്ല, ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ രോഗം പൊട്ടിമുളച്ചത് ചൈനയിലെ വുഹാൻ പട്ടണത്തിലും. അവിടെ ചൈനീസ് സർക്കാരിന്റെ ഒരു ജൈവ പരീക്ഷണശാല സ്ഥിതി ചെയ്യുന്നു എന്നതും ശ്രദ്ധേയം. ദീൻ കൂൺട്സ് എവിടെ നിന്നോ ഇക്കാര്യം മനസ്സിലാക്കിയിരുന്നു എന്നു വേണം കരുതാൻ. ആ പരീക്ഷണ ശാലയിൽ രഹസ്യമായി സൂക്ഷിച്ചിരുന്ന മാരക വൈറസ് എന്തോ അശ്രദ്ധ കാരണം ഇപ്പോൾ വുഹാൻ പട്ടണത്തിൽകൂടി ചൈനയിലും ലോകത്തിലും മനുഷ്യരുടെ മരണകാരണമായി തീർന്നിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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ഇതിനോടകം അനേകം ആളുകൾ ഈ വൈറസ് പനി മൂലം മരണമടഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു. കൂടുതലും ചൈനയിലെ വുഹാൻ പട്ടണത്തിലും സമീപ ദേശങ്ങളിലും. ചെലവു കുറഞ്ഞ മെഡിക്കൽ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തിനായി ചൈനയിലെ ഈ പട്ടണത്തിലേയും ഒക്കെ മെഡിക്കൽ കോളേജുകളിൽ ധാരാളം ഇന്ത്യൻ കുട്ടികൾ, പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് മലയാളി കുട്ടികൾ, പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. അവരിൽ ചിലർക്കും ഈ വൈറൽ പനി പിടി പെട്ട് തിരിച്ചെത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു. സർക്കാർ സംവിധാനങ്ങൾ ഈ അപകടം പിടിച്ച രോഗ സംക്രമണത്തെ ചെറുക്കാനുള്ള പ്രയഗ്നങ്ങൾ ചെയ്തു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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ആദ്യമായി പനിയോ ജലദോഷമോ തുമ്മലോ ഉള്ളവർ, അത് കൊറോണാ പനി ആകണമെന്നില്ല എന്നിരുന്നാൽ കൂടി, വെളിയിൽ മറ്റുള്ളവർ കൂടുന്ന സ്ഥലങ്ങളിൽ പോകുന്നത് കഴിയുന്നത്ര ഒഴിവാക്കുക. പനി വന്നാൽ വിശ്രമം എന്ന പഴയ രീതി അവലംബിക്കുക. അഥവാ വെളിയിൽ പോകേണ്ടി വന്നാൽ വായും മൂക്കും ഒരു മാസ്ക്ക് കൊണ്ട് മൂടി മാത്രം പോകുക. </div>
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പനിയും ജലദോഷവും ഉള്ള കുട്ടികളെ സ്കൂളിൽ പറഞ്ഞു വിടാതിരിക്കുക. അവർക്ക് വീട്ടിലൊ ആശുപത്രിയിലോ വിശ്രമവും ചികിത്സയും ഉടൻ ലഭ്യമാക്കുക.</div>
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ആശുപത്രിയിലും ആൾക്കൂട്ടത്തിലും കൂട്ടത്തിലുള്ള യാത്രയിലും ഉചിതമായ മാസ്ക്ക് കൊണ്ട് വായും മൂക്കും മൂടി വയ്ക്കാൻ നാണക്കേട് തോന്നി ഒഴിവാക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കാതിരിക്കുക.</div>
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എനിക്കിതൊന്നും ഒരു പ്രശ്നമേയല്ല എന്ന വിചാരം ഒഴിവാക്കുക.</div>
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ശുചിത്വം പാലിക്കുക. പൊതു സ്ഥലങ്ങളിൽ തുപ്പുകയും മറ്റും ചെയ്യാതിരിക്കുക.</div>
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ഇതു വരെ ഈ അത്യധികം അപകടകാരിയായ മഹാമാരി ലോകം ആകമാനം പടർന്നു പിടിച്ച് ലോക വ്യവസ്ഥയെ തകിടം മറിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. ദിനം പ്രതി കോവിഡ്-19 രോഗം മൂലം മരിക്കുന്നവരുടെ എണ്ണം കൂടി വരുന്നു. അതിനാൽ ഈ വൈറസ് പടരുന്നത് തടയുക എന്നത് എല്ലാവരുടേയും ഉത്തരവാദിത്വം ആണ് എന്നതിന് ഒരു സംശയവും വേണ്ട.<br />
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ഇതുവരെ അറിവായടത്തോളം ഈ വൈറസ് പടരുന്നത് തടയാൻ ഉള്ള പ്രധാന മാർഗം അത് ഒരു വ്യക്തിയിൽ നിന്ന് മറ്റൊരാളിലേക്ക് കയറിപ്പറ്റുന്നത് തടയുക എന്നതാണ്. പല രോഗാണുക്കളേയും പോലെ ഈ വൈറസിനും ജീവനുള്ള മനുഷ്യ ശരീരത്തിനു വെളിയിൽ അധിക സമയം ജീവനോടു കൂടി നില നിൽക്കാൻ കഴിയില്ല. എന്നാൽ മനുഷ്യ ശരീരത്തിൽ നിന്നു വെളിയിൽ വരുന്ന തുപ്പൽ, കഫം പോലെയുള്ള ശരീര സ്രവങ്ങളിൽ കുറേ സമയം അതിനു നിലനിൽക്കാൻ കഴിയും. വായ്, മൂക്ക്, കണ്ണ് എന്നിവ വഴി ഈ ശ്രവങ്ങളിൽ നശിക്കാതെ ഇരിക്കുന്ന കൊറോണാ വൈറസുകൾ മറ്റൊരാളുടെ ശരീരത്തിൽ കയറിപ്പറ്റിയാൽ ആ ശരീരത്തിനു പ്രതിരോധ ശക്തി ഇല്ല എങ്കിൽ ആ ശരീരത്തിൽ പെരുകി കോശങ്ങളെ നശിപ്പിച്ച് രോഗാവസ്ഥ ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നു. രോഗമില്ലാത്ത ഒരാളുടെ ശരീരത്തിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ച കൊറോണാ വൈറസ് രോഗ ലക്ഷണങ്ങൾ കാണിച്ചു തുടങ്ങാൻ പതിനാലു ദിവസം എടുക്കും. ഈ സമയത്തെ ഇങ്കുബേഷൻ സമയം എന്നു പറയുന്നു. കൊറോണയെ ഏറ്റവും അപകടം പിടിച്ചതാക്കുന്നത് രോഗലക്ഷണം ഇല്ലാത്ത ഇങ്കുബേഷൻ സമയത്തും അതിനു പടരാൻ കഴിയുന്നു എന്ന വസ്തുതയാണ്.<br />
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അതായത് കൊറോണാ വൈറസ് മറ്റൊരാൾക്ക് പടർത്താൻ ആ വൈറസ് ശരീരത്തിൽ കയറിക്കഴിഞ്ഞ് പതിനാലു ദിവസത്തോളം ഒരാൾക്ക് ക്ഴിയും, രോഗലക്ഷണങ്ങൾ ഒന്നും തന്നെ കാണിക്കാതെ! രോഗ ലക്ഷണങ്ങളായ പനി, തലവേദന, ശരീര വേദന, നിർത്താതെയുള്ള ചുമ, കഫക്കെട്ട്, ശ്വാസമ്മുട്ട്, എന്നിവ പിന്നീട് ആരംഭിക്കുന്നു. അത് പിന്നെ ഒരു രണ്ടാഴ്ച്ചക്കാലം നീണ്ടു നിൽക്കുന്നു. രോഗിയിയുടെ ശരീരത്തിലെ പ്രതിരോധം ഈ സമയത്തിനുള്ളിൽ ഫലപ്രദമായി ഉത്തേജിതം ആയി വന്നാൽ വൈറസ് ആ വ്യക്തിയിൽ നശിക്കുകയും രോഗശാന്തി കൈവരുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. അങ്ങനെ അല്ലാത്ത പക്ഷം ചിലരെങ്കിലും മരണത്തിനു കീഴ് പ്പെട്ടു പോകുന്നു. കോവിഡ്-19 പിടിപെട്ടവരിൽ രണ്ടോ മൂന്നോ ശതമാനം ആൾക്കാർ മരണത്തിനു കീഴ് പ്പെടുന്ന അവസ്ഥയാണ് ഇപ്പോഴുള്ളത്.<br />
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ഫലപ്രദമായ ഒരു പ്രതിരോധ മരുന്നുകളും കോവിഡ് രോഗത്തിനു ഇതു വരെ കണ്ടു പിടിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. അതു പോലെ തന്നെ പ്രതിരോധ വാക്സിനുകളും ഇതു വരെ ഇല്ല.<br />
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അതിനാൽ രോഗാണു ശരീരത്തിൽ കയറിക്കൂടാതെ നോക്കുക എന്നത് മാത്രമാണ് ഇപ്പോൾ ചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയുക. അതിന് സർക്കാർ സംവിധാനങ്ങൾ തരുന്ന താഴെ പറയുന്ന മാർഗ നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ കഴിയുന്നത്ര പാലിക്കണംഃ<br />
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1. രോഗം പടരുന്ന അവസ്ഥയിൽ അന്യരുമായുള്ള സമ്പർക്കം കഴിയുന്നത്ര കുറക്കുക- കഴിയുന്നത്ര വീടുകളിൽ തന്നെ കഴിയുക.<br />
2. അന്യരുമായി ഇടപഴകേണ്ട സാഹചര്യത്തിൽ അവരുമായി ഒരാൾ അകലം പാലിക്കാൻ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുക<br />
3. കൈകൾ ഇടക്കിടെ സോപ്പ് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് നല്ലവണ്ണം കഴുകുന്നത് ഒരു ശീലം ആക്കുക<br />
4. ചുമ, തുമ്മൽ എന്നിവ ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ മാസ്ക് ഉപയോഗിക്കുക.<br />
5. മറ്റുള്ളവരുമായി അടുത്തിരുന്ന് ഉള്ള എല്ലാ യാത്രകളും ഒഴിവാക്കുക<br />
6. അണുനാശിനികൾ ഫലവത്തായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുക.<br />
7.രോഗികളുടെയൊ, രോഗം പിടിപെടാൻ സാധ്യത ഉള്ളവരുടെയൊ അടുക്കൽ പോകേണ്ടി വന്നാൽ എല്ലാവിധ മുൻ കരുതലുകളും എടുത്തു മാത്രം ചെയ്യുക.<br />
8. രോഗം പിടിപെട്ടു എന്നുള്ള എന്തെങ്കിലും സംശയം വന്നാൽ ഉടൻ തന്നെ സർക്കാർ ആരോഗ്യ സംവിധാനങ്ങളെ വിവരം അറിയിക്കുകയും അവർ തരുന്ന നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങൾ പാലിക്കയും ചെയ്യുക.</div>
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കൊറോണാ വൈറസ് നിയന്ത്രണത്തിൽ ആകും വരെ അധികാരികൾ തരുന്ന എല്ലാ നിർദ്ദേശങ്ങളും അനുസരിക്കാൻ എല്ലാവർക്കും ഉത്തരവാദിത്വം ഉണ്ട് എന്ന് ഓർക്കണം.</div>
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ഈ പ്രതിസന്ധി നമ്മൾ തരണം ചെയ്യും എന്ന് നമുക്ക് വിശ്വസിക്കാം.<br />
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ഈ രോഗം അറുപതു വയസ് കഴിഞ്ഞവർക്കും, പ്രമേഹം, ബ്ളഡ് പ്രെഷർ ആദിയായ രോഗങ്ങൾക്ക് ചികിത്സ ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നവർക്കും കൂടുതൽ അപകടം വരുത്തും എന്ന് പറയപ്പെടുന്നു. എന്നാൽ ചെറുപ്പക്കാർക്കും അത് അപകടം പിടിച്ചതു തന്നെ എന്ന് ഇപ്പോൾ ലോകാരോഗ്യ സംഘടന പറയുന്നു.<br />
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ഈ രോഗം വന്നു കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ അതിന്റെ തീവ്രത കുറക്കാൻ എന്തു മാർഗം എന്ന് ആരും ഒന്നും തന്നെ ഇപ്പോൾ പറയുന്നില്ല. സാധാരണ വരുന്ന പനി, ജലദോഷം, ചുമ എന്നിവയ്ക്ക് ഇപ്പോൾ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന മരുന്നുകൾ ഒക്കെ ത്തന്നെ ഇതിനും ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് കരുതണം.<br />
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അലോപ്പതി, ആയുർവേദം, ഹോമിയൊ എന്നിങ്ങനെയുള്ള ഏതു വിധ ചികിത്സാ പദ്ധതികളും യുക്തമായി പരീക്ഷിക്കാം എന്നു ചുരുക്കം. എന്നാൽ സർക്കാർ വക ആരോഗ്യ നിരീക്ഷണത്തിൽ ആയിക്കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ അതിനു സാധ്യത ഉണ്ടാകുമൊ എന്ന് പറയാൻ സാധിക്കില്ല. എന്നാൽ അങ്ങനെയുള്ള ചികിത്സാ പരീക്ഷണങ്ങൾ സർക്കാർ സംവിധാനങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യുന്നത് നല്ലതാണ്.<br />
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ഇംഗ്ളണ്ടിൽ ഒരു മുതിർന്ന ലേഡി ഡോക്ടർക്ക് കോവിഡ് പിടിപെട്ടു എങ്കിലും വലിയ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ കൂടാതെ പൂർണ്ണ സൌഖ്യം പ്രാപിച്ചു എന്നും അതിന് അവർ അവലംബിച്ച മാർഗം എന്തായിരുന്നു എന്നും അവർ സോഷ്യൽ മീഡിയയിൽ കൂടി പങ്കു വച്ചത് ഇത്തരുണത്തിൽ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നത് നല്ലതാണ്. ഈ രോഗത്തിന്റെ ലക്ഷണങ്ങൾ തുടങ്ങിയപ്പോൾ മുതൽ അവർ ഭക്ഷണമായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചത് ചിക്കൻ സൂപ്പും കുടിക്കാൻ ഉപയോഗിച്ചത് നാരങ്ങാ വെള്ളവും മരുന്നായി ഉപയോഗിച്ചത് മൂന്നു നേരം പാരസെറ്റമോൾ ഗുളികകളും എന്ന് അവർ പറയുന്നു. അത് രോഗത്തിന് വളരെ ആശ്വാസം അവർക്ക് കൊടുത്തു പോലും.<br />
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ഇനി ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു ഭീകര രോഗാണു നമ്മുടെ ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടായി വരാൻ എന്താണു കാരണം? അതു ചില രാജ്യങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കി എടുത്തതാകാൻ വഴിയുണ്ട് എന്ന സംശയം നിലനിൽക്കുമ്പോൾ തന്നെ എന്റെ ഒരു നിഗമനം ഞാൻ പറയാം.<br />
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എന്റെ ചെറുപ്പ കാലങ്ങളിലും, അതായത് അര നൂറ്റാണ്ടിനു മുമ്പും, പനിയും ജലദോഷവും ഇന്നത്തെപ്പോലെ തന്നെ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. എന്നാൽ അത് ഇന്നത്തെ പ്പോലെ സർവ സാധാരണം ആയിരുന്നില്ല. ഒന്നും രണ്ടും വർഷം കൂടുമ്പോൾ ഒന്നോ രണ്ടോ പ്രാവശ്യം ജലദോഷപ്പനി വരും. മൂന്നോ നാലോ ദിവസം കഴിയുമ്പോൾ തന്നെ മാറും. ചിലപ്പോൾ ഒരാഴ്ച്ച. ഇന്നത്തെ പ്പോലെ തന്നെ പനി മാറാൻ മരുന്നുകളും കഴിച്ചിരുന്നു. എന്നാൽ ആന്റി ബയോട്ടിക്ക് ഉപയോഗം കുറവായിരുന്നു. ഏറ്റവും പ്രധാനം വിശ്രമം എന്നതായിരുന്നു എന്നോർക്കുന്നു. പനി വന്നാൽ കുട്ടികൾ മരുന്നു കഴിച്ചിട്ട് സ്കൂളിൽ പോകുന്ന പതിവ് അന്നില്ലായിരുന്നു. മരുന്നു കഴിച്ചിട്ട് ജോലിക്കു പോകുന്ന പതിവും അന്നില്ലായിരുന്നു എന്നു തന്നെ പറയാം.<br />
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അതിനാൽ തന്നെ പനിയുടെ വൈറസ് അധികം സമൂഹത്തിൽ പടരുന്നത് കുറവായിരുന്നു.<br />
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ഇന്നത്തെ പോലെ അന്ന് പല രാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ പോയി വരുന്ന ആൾക്കാർ കുറവായിരുന്നു. അതിനാൽ തന്നെ പലതരം ആളുകൾ തമ്മിലുള്ള ഇടപഴകൾ കാര്യമായി ഇല്ലായിരുന്നു എന്നു പറയാം.<br />
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അതുകൊണ്ട് പനി വൈറസുകൾ പല വ്യത്യസ്ഥ സാഹചര്യങ്ങളിൽ കൂടി കടന്നുപോയി മ്യൂട്ടേഷനു വിധേയമാകാനുള്ള അവസരം കുറവായിരുന്നു.<br />
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എന്നാൽ ഇന്നതല്ല സ്ഥിതി. പല രാജ്യക്കാരും പല തരക്കാരും കൂടുതലായി ഇടപഴകുന്നു. പനി വന്നാൽ ആരും അതു കാര്യമായി ഗൌനിക്കാതെ ഞൊട്ടു ഞൊടുക്കു ആശ്വാസമരുന്നുകൾ കഴിച്ചിട്ട് വെളിയിൽ ഇറങ്ങി സാധാരണപോലെ കാര്യങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യുന്നു. പനി വൈറസ് അങ്ങോട്ടും ഇങ്ങോട്ടും വിതരണം ചെയ്തു നടക്കുന്നു. പനി വന്നാൽ വിശ്രമം എടുക്കണമെന്ന് ആരെങ്കിലും പറഞ്ഞാൽ വലിയ തമാശ കേട്ട മട്ടിൽ നടക്കുന്നു. പനിയെന്നൊരു രോഗത്തെ ഒരു രോഗമായിപ്പോലും ആരും ഗൌനിക്കുന്നില്ല. പനിയും ജലദോഷവും വെറും അലർജി. അതിനു പ്രതിവിധി കണ്ടെത്താൻ പോലും ഒരു മെഡിക്കൽ കമ്പനിയും മെനക്കെട്ടതുമില്ല. അതിനു മിനക്കെട്ടാൽ വലിയ ലാഭമൊന്നുമില്ല എന്ന് അവരും കരുതി.<br />
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അപ്പോൾ പനി വൈറസുകൾ അസാധാരണ മ്യൂട്ടേഷനു വിധേയമായിക്കൊണ്ടിരുന്നു എന്നു കരുതണം. അങ്ങനെ പുതിയ കൊറോണാ വൈറസ് ഉരുത്തിരിഞ്ഞു. കോവിഡ്-19 എന്ന മഹാമാരി വിതയ്ക്കുന്ന കണങ്ങളായി.<br />
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ഇനിയിപ്പോൾ എന്തു ചെയ്യും എന്ന അസാധാരണ അവസ്ഥയിലേക്ക് കാര്യങ്ങൾ എത്തിച്ചേർന്നിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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കോവിഡ്-19 നമ്മൾ അതിജീവിക്കുമോ?<br />
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ഇതിൽ നിന്നും നമ്മൾ എന്തെങ്കിലും പാഠം പഠിക്കുമോ?<br />
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കാത്തിരുന്നു കാണാം.<br />
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ദൈവ വിശ്വാസം ഉള്ളവർക്ക് കരഞ്ഞു പ്രാർഥിക്കാം.<br />
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അല്ലാതെന്തു ചെയ്യും?<br />
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Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-47991078166380855302019-11-20T11:27:00.000+05:302019-11-20T11:54:37.918+05:30Alibaba: A Global Business to Business (B2B) Facilitator!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am an admirer of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma" target="_blank">Jack Ma</a> </b>and his Chinese company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group" target="_blank"><b>Alibaba</b></a>-the Alibaba Group Holding Limited, to be precise. If you have not known about this man and his company, you missed some thing. Better click the hyperlinks to read and know more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From what I have known, in just about two decades, Jack Ma a relatively unsuccessful ordinary man in China played the role in building up this global giant of a company making the company and himself both successful and world renowned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is remarkable is that this business model was initiated by some one in China and the founder of the company used the name of a legendary hero of an Arabian folklore as his company name!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alibaba surely have been opening up the gates of fortune for thousands of business men and traders across the globe ever since its inception. It has made global sourcing and procurement very easy. The company uses the potential of internet and e-commerce to its full advantage making it a win-win situation for itself and its </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">clients!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All kinds of machinery, raw materials and bulk products can be searched, sourced and procured internationally using Alibaba's internet platform in a competitive manner. This is much beneficial for retailers, business men and industries in every nook and corner of the world today. Alibaba has made the world looks smaller, taking advantage of the internet to it maximum. This company has been helping the products of Chinese mainland to reach the nook and corners of the rest of the world with comparative easiness!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alibaba is perhaps the pioneering company in the world that utilized the new world order of opened up international trade to its highest potential.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Business men and local traders around the world should explore the international online market place as provided by Alibaba for their growth and success!</span></div>
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<a href="https://offer.alibaba.com/cps/m70rmcp0?bm=cps&src=saf"><img width="300" height="250" src="https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H7b5796f291b94beda379ae3b16cb5ad4Z.jpg"/></a>Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-2303311899285292922019-11-15T16:46:00.000+05:302019-11-15T16:47:38.965+05:30What Would You Gain by Knowing About My Engineering College Life at Trichur?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this blog I would be trying to outline the second part of my life story covering some of the salient episodes including certain mentions about the people I happen to meet during my four year stay in the so-called cultural capital of Kerala, the Trichur city during 1973-77 period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier I had published the first part of my life story titled: <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2019/11/why-should-anyone-be-interested-to-know.html" target="_blank">Why should anyone be interested to know about my childhood?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This too was written and published a few years ago in my personal website, www.rajan-c-mathew.htmlplanet.com and hence it is just being reproduced below:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Considering the fact that I hailed from a rural background with no great concepts or ideas of life in the urban centres, Trichur was really a big city for me to start my educational career there to become a Chemical Engineer. Trichur is considered as the cultural centre of Kerala- I don't know why- and its name written in the Railway station there was Thrishivaperoor and also as Trissur in some places.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #330099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My father took me to Trichur first ever in my life to get me admitted in the Government Engineering College for studying for the bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. A month ago he had taken me to Trivandrum [now Thiruvananthapuram] and had got me admitted there for the Mechanical Engineering branch! After taking that admission there, the offer for ChE from Trichur came by post, for which I had a secret desire or preference which I had been keeping in my mind ever since some school friends boasted much about the superiority of chemical engineering. So, I insisted of changing my career from mechanical engineering to chemical engineering and got my poor father to agree to my ignorant wish and take the troubles in getting this change effected!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">We reached Trichur a day earlier and stayed in a lodge located in the ' Trichur Round' [the central ring road around the ' Vadakum Nath Temple' ground.] On the next working day we reached the College gate at a location called Cherur and completed the college and hostel admission formalities. As the college was opening in a day or two, I had to move to the hostel immediately. My father left me there in the hostel and returned back to our village, Elanthoor that day itself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Though I had heard about 'ragging' in professional colleges, I did not have any imagination about it earlier. It could be some kind of teasing by seniors within some limits- that was fine- and that was my idea about it. I never imagined that it could go beyond the imaginable limits of personal liberties and freedom crossing over to sadism and vulgarity and to extreme cruelty.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #330099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hostel presented that from the first day. I could not go to my hostel room. In the night, a goodhearted final year student secretly gave me some protection on the condition that I do him the work of preparing and copying his study assignment notes! He was being kindhearted to me possibly because he used to be a student of my father in his high school days! Almost for 2-3 days he made me hide in his room, but continuously doing the writing work for him and some of his final year friends who happened to know about my hiding there. They were telling me the worst ragging that was being meted out to my 'not-so-lucky' fresher friends elsewhere in the hostel. Yes, their cries were occasionally reaching my ears!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I told my sympathetic senior host and requested his help for me to escape from the hostel. The plan as advised by him was that I run away to the city, about 6 miles away, after mid-night. Some of the senior youths used to be extremely sadistic and any kind of physical assault could have been possible if I ever got caught by them alone while getting escaped from the hostel premises. After midnight was planned due to that!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The lodge I took shelter was on the side of this ring road. I do not now remember its name, probably it was some thing called 'Ramdas lodge' or so.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">With little money with me, I could not have stayed there for more. So out of compulsion I was deeply thinking of a way and roaming aimlessly on the foot path of the ring road the next day that this old man approached me and began to talk with me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">He looked a little better than a beggar. He had all white and trimmed beard with long uncombed hairs more towards the grey side. But at that time he was to me like an angel. He walked along with me and talked with me and learned much about me and my predicament.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">He told that he could go all the way to my hostel and fetch me those personal belongings of mine back to me to the town.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So I decided to try him. I gave the contact details of my sympathetic super final senior in the hostel with a small note addressed to him requesting him to help in fetching my belongings from my hostel room and hand over the same to this 'beggar-like-man'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Then I waited for him in the lodge. I had money and clothes in my bag that the man was to bring back from the hostel 7-8 km away. He could very well vanish with that. Yet my mind said that he would be back!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The old man used to come to chat with me in the evening hours. I had no one to talk. So his presence was a great relief. With him I used to move out in the evening exploring the city. He had great knowledge on many things which I never knew.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Then on an evening errand, while we were in some dark narrow lanes, he asked me some thing which immediately repelled me from him not to be seen any further. He had asked me whether I was in need of any pleasurable company to offset my boredom. Then described the details and offered to take me to the places where those companions are available. It took a few minutes for me to realize what he was proposing. When it clicked my mind, I turned back and ran with all speed back to my lodge. While running away from him I cautioned him not to come back to me any more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">That was the incident which revealed the existence of hidden facts in the cities and that for the first time ignited a type of scare in my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So at about 8-30 AM I got into a bus that went to Cherur, where the Govt. Engg College situated. Thus much ahead of the time I reached the college main gate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">When I got a little comfort by getting new friends in the college, I became bold enough to act and think. I then remembered a word of help told to me by my village mentor, late Shri Elanthur C T Mathai, when we were planning to go to Trichur. He had been a regular columnist and writer contributor to the Malayalam Newspaper 'Deepika' which used to be published from Kottayam during those days. This paper was managed by an order of the Catholic priests and he was personally known to the Chief Editor of the daily who was a priest. C T Mathai was too concerned with my welfare at Trichur, that he managed a personal introduction letter from the Chief Editor written to one Mr Thomas and had given that letter to me. Mr Thomas was the bureau chief of Deepika at Trichur and also an influential personality there. The letter urged him to consider me as a very near person to Deepika and provide all help and support at Trichur if needed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">There were many rooms in the ground floor and on the first floor. The first floor and the external staircase were made of polished hard wood. There were no signs of dilapidation anywhere, except its haunted bungalow look! There was an external toilet cum bath room with piped water at the rear end adjacent to the boundary wall. There were also a few large mango trees at the rear side. The bungalow had electric lights as well, though sparingly. But there were no fans.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Next day I got the opportunity of discussing this development with a few of my class mates, who were also living in the town in dingy rooms, for the same reasons. A few of them readily agreed to shift to the new bungalow accommodation now in my possession. These boys were Rajeevan from the ancient port town of Kerala, Kodungallore and Nandakumar from Mavelikkara, a well known place of central travancore area of Kerala. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So finally, after about a month's struggle, I could more-or-less settle down to the new surroundings in the city of Trichur as well as at the Engineering College campus, though at the latter place things were not all that good. Threats from seniors still continued, though we were not disturbed much in the class room. The support to us freshers from matured faculty members like Prof.Jishnu was reassuring.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">But, some of the ruffian seniors were not going to leave things to go peacefully. They took note of some of us, including me, who slipped out of their hands and escaped to the city. They were making plans to get us and assault us physically, in the name of ragging.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So, one day they brought in Mr.C C Joy, a third year student and also a well known body-builder who held the body building competition title ' Mister Dakshin Bharat Shree' to threaten our group member Antony. Mr Joy, though physically strong and a well built man never had any inclination to assault Antony. He came due to compulsion from his colleagues. So, he made some verbal threats to Antony and left the scene.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In the evening in the city there were hectic activities. Our group members learned that the Kerala Chief Minister Mr C. Achutha Menon is camping at the Government Guest House-Rama Nilayam- at Trichur. Some of us pulled the strings and we could get an appointment with him late in the evening.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Achutha Menon was the most efficient administrator politician and Chief Minister Kerala State ever had. He had a personal dislike to ragging in professional colleges. That was because of his son who got severely ragged up in an year ago in the Trivandrum Medical College right under the nose of his powerful chief minister father. This powerful chief minister could not do much to save his son due to non-cooperation from the students and the faculty of the college.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">That strategy worked. Next day, the college administration suspended 8 senior students for ragging related violence. Probably, this was the first time in the history of India that senior students from a professional college are suspended for ragging. The incident got wide news publicity because at that time ragging was not yet banned in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The seniors did make attempts to protest, which was ably suppressed by the police force under the leadership of the young and dynamic Indian Police Service officer from Uttar Pradesh working in Kerala cadre, Mr Raman Shrivastava, the Assistant Superindentant of Police of Trichur at that time. I remember he being very friendly with us freshers and supporting our cause. The college had to be closed indefinitely for some time following all these. But the suspended students were not taken back at that time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">But I did not shift to hostel. That was not safe yet. I stayed at my 'haunted bungalow' of Deepika Newspaper group. There was threat to some of us from some senior fellows, though most seniors by that time became silent and open admirers of us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Till that time no first year students had the guts to contest the elections to any of the posts. The union office posts of Chairman, Vice-Chairman, General Secretary, etc had been all held and contested by senior students only.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">We had decided to field our candidate, the first year group's candidate, for the post of vice-chairman of the college union of students. Then we decided the candidate to be fielded. That candidate was me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">After the nominations were accepted, hectic work was done in the campaigning all throughout the campus. There were also part-time students, those old people working in most government departments, who also were eligible to vote. As the time passed, I had a clear edge over the senior student candidates. So, the seniors decided to withdraw all of their candidates except one to make the contest a straight one-to-one to enhance their chance of winning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">There were some young teachers and old part-time students (mostly technical staff from state government departments) staying in the hostel besides the regular students like us. Due to the heroism of the first year, some of these old fellows became my companions very shortly after I moved in there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Remember, the time was emergency period and there was government censoring on newspapers and Radio.There was no TV or mobile phones. Even telephones were a luxury affordable to a very few. The risk of government agencies always sneaking in to the citizens' communications and unwanted police actions existed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #330099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the time when police raided REC campus in the pretext of curbing hardcore communist ideology, known as the Naxallite thoughts, spreading in the minds of engineering students. The over enthusiasm of some of those police officers caused the death of this poor first year completed student of REC, Mr Rajan. I remember Achukkutty telling me the whole story when we met some time immediately after this boy was killed by the Kerala police and the time when none outside actually knew this. Achukkutty was a good guitarist and this Rajan a good vocalist and they were both members of the REC Arts Club. This Arts Club group used to practice and perform here and there including some places outside the college campus. Perhaps such things made some of these club members getting in contact with local artists who were not necessarily engineering students. A few fellows of this latter group were inclined to Communist ideologies who occasionally attended 'Study Circles' of Naxallite contact groups in nearby areas of the regional engineering college, Calicut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So, the Police began the hunt for youths named Rajan in the vicinity of the REC. They took many into custody without actually registering any arrest warrant. The Police were over ambitious under an young IPS officer named Jayaram Padickal, a direct confidant of the Home Minister.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In the second year beginning, the Principal of our college, Prof.Dr.P.J.George probably due to the recommendations of the resident wardens of the hostel, called me and entrusted the task of running the hostel Mess which was in a real mess already due to various factors. This story I have covered in the page ' <a href="http://www.rajan-c-mathew.htmlplanet.com/rich_text_5.html" target="_blank"><b>Mgt & Me</b></a>'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In all these extra-curricular activities that I described, studies also went on. I did not fail in any subjects of studies in the first and second semester exams of the first year, even with all the disturbances. In the first year, the classes were common for all the disciplines.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The first year provided an opportunity for all of us to understand an overall introduction to engineering in general. Besides having mathematics, physics and chemistry as subjects of studies, with some advanced inputs with a tilt towards the application areas, we had introductions to applied mechanics, strength of materials, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering , electronics and a non-engineering mixture of subjects comprehensively titled humanities. Some of these topics continued to the later semesters as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The faculty who introduced these topics to us the fresh entrants, were mostly senior professors, excepting one or two new comers. [ One of them was a very beautiful unmarried lady teaching chemistry and perhaps that was the subject the boys understood the least.] Besides, there were practicals in the various laboratories as well as in the mechanical and electrical workshops. In the latter, for the first time we got an opportunity to create certain objects by our own hands through black smithy, carpentry, machining, casting, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Then there was this lecturer named Mr Shah, who taught us applied mechanics and strength of materials. He represented the civil engineering department. A lean tall man with a high pitch voice, who presented his topic the most matter-of-fact manner, that soon, most of us felt this as the most difficult subject to learn in engineering. The scare of the topic was further enhanced by the seniors who presented fearful stories of our predecessors leaving engineering studies on account of their not clearing this 'extremely difficult' subject, called Applied Mechanics!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">He was cool and cold in his lectures too! That coldness pervaded his class and affected most of us, making us deadly scared of the subject! Nevertheless, a few of our classmates were real adventurers, especially those who were going to be future civil engineers. They simply could not leave this topic un-mastered, as it formed the basics of civil engineering! Such of those, especially took additional interest outside the class to understand the subject and master it and they were, no doubt, successful. Sooner or later, Mr Shaw only bothered of those few of his pet students, as it was for them he was teaching the subject and the rest were, for all practical purposes for him, non-existent!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I remember meeting Professor Govindan a few years after I left the college, accidentally at the Trichur railway station and at that time he was the number one and head of the ChE department. He was very soft and friendly and we had a pleasant conversation till the trains came for us to take leave. Sometime later, I came to know about the sad demise of this pioneering Ch Engg professor of Kerala due to a fatal heart-attack! May his soul rest in peace!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">These last days were painful. Towards the end, my connections were limited to a few classmates in our Chemical Engineering batch. All were realizing the great responsibility that was ahead of them. We were all going to be fresh engineers with out any jobs. Finding jobs that were of status was a cause of anxiety. None were sure of the future . The final academic results were important. Many of those studious bookworms maintaining obedience to the faculty members had already secured a good percentage marks in the previous semesters that we intuitively knew they were going to come out in 'flying colours'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Though the first year incidences and the hangover of that during the third semester had some impact on my studies, I could make up those subsequently and my performance in the examinations were not so bad. Our batch of chemical engineers had a strenth of 44, in which 2 were ladies. That was a period when ladies hardly opted to become engineers in India, a situation much changed in later years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Our two lady class mates need a bit introduction here. One was named Jolly and the other was Latha. The latter was a bit talented in singing and used to participate in the cultural events of the college and also in intercollegiate meets. Both were average good looking girls, very reserved and hardly ever moving around with boys. In those days, boys and girls freely mingling in student life in a state like Kerala happened only in a few elite public schools. Incidentally I had another classmate friend named Jollykutty who was a male with a feminine name. Both Jollykutty and Jolly hailed from the central travancore's cultural and trade town, namely, Changanasserry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I do not have any contact or knowledge about the later lives of most of my Trichur classmates and that is true for these two ladies as well. But I remember someone telling about the marriage of Jolly and her migration to the gulf countries where her husband worked. In the case of Latha, the situation was a little bit different. She fell in love with one of our young and controversial faculty member and got married to him in a non-conventional manner while we were still in our final year. Later it was learnt that both together moved to the IIT Madras for higher studies and returned back to GEC where Latha also became a faculty in chemical engineering. Years later an young engineer from GEC who joined in my organization told me the demise of Latha, who was his teacher, due to some illness. God bless her!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #330099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the final year of my studies at GEC Trichur, I was staying in a room of Hostel-B (now its name is something different) facing the road and the Viyyur Central jail farm. My room was an end room by the side of Hostel-C. Mr Jayan Kamicherril , my class mate in chemical engineering, was my room mate. Jayan, I remember, as a polished high society inclined youth with a very matured outlook and behavior. He was lean and tall and probably had a physical feature that gave him a matured look. He hailed from a 'Knanaya Christian' family from the now famous backwater hamlet of Kumarakom- the same place of international tourist attraction in Kerala from where the famous writer of the international bestseller- God of small things- Ms. Arundhati Roy also hails. My room partner preferred to be called J K J Kamicherril. After we left the college, I have not met him, though I was keeping track of him for some years. He did his MTech from IIT Madras and joined FEDO, the design and engineering wing of the then famous PSU chemical fertilizer company in Alwaye, Kerala, the Fertilizers and Chemicals of Travancore Limited, best known as FACT. I remember visiting Kumarakom in those days and staying with him in his house for a night. Very recently while browsing the internet I happened to read an article and some other information on this special friend of mine and the tragedy that had happened with him. I have no specific knowledge of him, yet I presume it is he, from the style of writing, as he was a man of English literary skills, a thing in which he was better than most of us due to his upbringing in foreign lands on account of his dad's job. He probably had left FACT and migrated to the USA and had a prosperous life there doing marketing of spices (What a transformation from Chemical Engineering!) From the writings that was on the internet, I presume that he met with a tragedy of losing his only son by a freak slip accident at his US home. May God Bless him!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #330099; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I fail to recollect any one of my hostel mates except a few. One of these exceptions is Mr.George Elias, who joined the college a year later when we were in the second year. He was a student of Naval Architecture and a first batch student of that discipline commenced at GEC Trichur by the Cochin Technical University at that time. This new University of Cochin had no worthwhile campus at that time and the Kerala Goverment was probably thinking over the options of making the GEC Trichur campus as the campus for this new technical university which a few years later they did and reverted. Mr Elias' father, as I learnt from others, belonged to the elite administrative services, and that prompted him to follow his father's footsteps after taking his degree in naval architecture. He probably wrote the Indian Civil Services examination by selecting some other humanities subjects and got entered into the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS)-those ruling class that makes the rules and laws for India and rule the country on behalf of their political masters! Incidentally he is one of the Jt Secretaries of Govt of India in the steel ministry which is administratively responsible for the PSU steel company where I work as an engineer and also one of its Directors. Elias was not my friend or perhaps not even my casual acquaintance. His name came to my mind while I was typing this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">There was this man who bore my name, Rajan. He was my classmate and at least three years elder to me, as he came to study engineering after obtaining a degree in Science. He was a man of short height, not very much interested in studies. He was known for some other peculiar characteristic which was quite uncommon in other students of that time. For a purpose of his liking he was prepared to go to any extent and he had the guts! I do not know what he did later in his life. (A couple of years ago, I made contact with him over the phone and at that time he was working as a private engineering consultant. Few months later I learnt about his untimely demise. May him rest in peace!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Then, was this Jollykutty Zachariahs whose name I mentioned earlier. He too was short heighted and a graduate in Science. He was the eldest son of a famous academician who was a sort of permanent syndicate member of the Kerala University. His family backgrounds were that so-called 'hi-fi' which had created a complex personality in him, antagonistic to his ambitious parents. He probably might have spent hours with me during the final years in the guise of combined studies, and spending time in explaining his mental state and the family experiences rather than doing the studies! Later, he had to marry a girl settled in Canada. I have no contact with him after that, though he attended my marriage in 1981. (In recent years I learnt that he retired from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and settled in Bangalore)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">An incident of bitterness happened in the hostel just before we were leaving, making our memories of GEC something of everlasting shame. As I have mentioned earlier, a group of our batch of students including me, had tried to make an end to the dirty ragging that had been happening in the professional colleges. Later, when we became seniors, we have made it a point that our juniors are not ragged in the college or in the hostels. Yet, there could have happened some exceptions here and there, by those who did not share our views. When we became pre-final students and the final year students, it was a task for some of us to keep some of the boys from our junior batches from not attempting ragging on the freshers. This probably might have created some ego clashes in some.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Due to the semester pattern academics in our college and also due to the inferior management by the Calicut University to which our college was affiliated, our semester course used to take a few months more to complete, as compared to our fellow students studying in other engineering colleges attached to the University of Kerala- the first and oldest varsity in the state. In fact, the academic planners in our Calicut University had made an engineering syllabus almost double in content due to the semester pattern, than that was of the Kerala University with the yearly pattern of examinations. Yet, they have left out certain useful preliminary engineering tools to be taught to all engineers! (That is another issue, which I would try to cover in some other discussions, on my opinion on engineering education as a whole). Due to this the engineering colleges affiliated to Calicut University had a peculiar situation at that time. That is, having two final year batches in the college simultaneously for a couple of months, called the 'super finals' and the 'finals'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So we became 'super-finals' and our immediate juniors became 'finals' in the college and the hostels. Sometime towards the end of 1977 we were still in the college after completing our final examinations and waiting for completion of our project works and final viva-voce examinations by external faculties. As such the period was boring and tense with our college days almost ended with anxieties running high in each and every one about the uncertain future. We had little contact with each other as there were no classes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I still remember that evening, when one of the junior boys-some one from the second year classes residing in my hostel-requested me to vacate immediately to the town as something worse was likely to happen that night. On further inquiry, I came to know about a secret plan of some group of young men of the final year classes in our hostel were planning to physically assault a few select fellows of the super-final group residing in the hostels, just to settle some old scores. This kind of a thing is not an uncommon thing. It happens all over the world where young males transform to full grown adults in their own groups!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More than a decade ago, when the internet was making its presence in India as a useful and fascinating tool to express oneself, I too got interested in it. Several digital companies called the dot com companies provided free services for common people like me to try the pleasure of freelance writing and publishing in the world wide web of the internet. 'Freeservers' was one such dot com which gave me the tools to create my personal website<a href="http://www.rajan-c-mathew.htmlplanet.com/index.html" target="_blank"> www.rajan-c-mathew.htmlplanet.com </a> free of cost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Curiosity to learn the tricks of creating a website by trying out the various tools provided by such dot.coms that were trying out their fortune in making ad revenues helped me to retain and enhance my reading, writing and typing skills which otherwise would have got lost to the old age weakness that was creeping in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But writing is not an easy task for the beginners. Ideas and thoughts would not develop easily to be transformed into words that would generate interest in some one to read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So as an experiment I tried to type out about my own life in the pages of my free personal website. Even that was not so easy initially. But I wanted to create some content in my website. The search engine, google, too was doing its pioneering technology for the benefit of the general public at that time. As the contents in the world wide web was much less as compared to the present days, my writings on my website used to be found by google so easily in those days. Google finding me was a thrill on those days for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This beginning helped me to develop my skills in writing blogs in the blogging platforms later provided by Blogger as well as WordPress. Later I found that it was now much easy for me to transform my thoughts and ideas into readable texts. However, I was reluctant to use writing as a way of making money. The ads placed in this website is as a result of my curiosity to learn and understand about such things by experimentation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this page I intent to reproduce those parts of my writings reflecting part-1 of my life story that got published in my personal website long ago. If time and situation permit, I would like to complete the remaining phases of my life story in this blogger platform because I have lost my editing rights in my free personal website of free-servers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why should any one be interested to know about my childhood or about my family or my school education or about my professional life or about my experiences as a human being? Most people do not have that curiosity to know about others unless they are some celebrities. But to be frank, I personally am interested to know about those common people around me. Each one around us are store houses of life experiences and ideas. Unfortunately, we are so pre-occupied with our day to day struggles of living that we hardly find time to have deeper exchange of experiences and ideas, except some superficial ones, both in person and in the so called social media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there are a few scattered in the wide world like me. My writings are for those. Often I wish to read the life and experiences of ordinary folks, but they hardly express or share anything!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I belong to a village called Elanthur, located in the Central Travancore area of the southern state of Kerala in India. Before the formation of the Independent Indian Republic and the many states constituting India based on the regional languages, Travancore was a prosperous kingdom ruled by Malayali royals with reasonably modern outlook and vision. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Both my parents belonged to middle class Syrian Christian families of Travancore and as was customary at that time for people of such backgrounds, they were reasonably educated and had chosen teaching in local schools as their vocation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">My father was the only son of a local business man of that pre-independence period and was a little bit attracted to the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, that he chose to be a pure vegetarian by self determination while he was probably in his teens- a thing not common to Syrian Christians- and a 'Khadardhari' [ wearing only hand woven white clothes called 'Khadi']. He was also influenced by the Indian Nationalism that he became a proponent of Hindi and Sanskrit languages. For decades, he was a Hindi teacher and an activist of a movement in South India for the cause of propagating the use of Hindi as a national language of Independent India. He was against the religious bondage created by religious institutions like the church, but he did not have the courage to fight the institutionalized church alone. So he chose to be a non church-goer, but remained regular in paying all that was due to the church. However, he was a firm believer of God and used to read the Bible and pray every day at home. Towards the end of his career as a renowned and respected teacher, he was pretty agonized over the growing deterioration of values and ethics in all walks of life, even in the fraternity of teachers. I remember occassions when he shared those concerns with me. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">As a child I used to admire some of my relatives- though for various reasons. One was my paternal grandmother. She took care of me in my childhood as my mother didnot have enough time for that, being employed a teacher herself. I used to admire the capacity and efficiency of my grandmother to manage the household without any grumbling.Though there were reasons to find fault with her rich siblings and relatives, I had never heard her doing that. She used to visit the homes of all her brothers and sisters and other relatives and most often, if possible, used to take me also with her during such visits. Visit to the house of her eldest sister at Kumbanad, was the one I used to like most, as this grandma and her family members were very affectionate and royal in their acts and deeds, with their richness quite visible during those days when such things were not so common. An younger brother of grandma was an ex-Royal Airforce pilot and a Wold War-II veteran. He was another person of this lineage who was close to me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">My maternal grandfather and grandmother were also of influence during my childhood days as I used to spend a good part of my time those days in my mother's house not very far from my own home. Grandfather was the founder head of a reputed school and the thing most remarkable about him was the perfect dress sense he had at those days. Grandma too matched him in this sense and her hobby used to be guiding the servants and others in cooking, especially tasty snacks and sweets dear to children. Both were strict disciplinarians, though the same didnot apply to me as a special concession to me as their eldest grandson.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In those days, many enlightened individuals from upper middle class families in Kerala, regardless of their religious affiliations, had considered it their social responsibility to start formal primary education facilities in their respective localities, without waiting for the government to do that. In our village though a government school existed, much more was felt as necessary by some such people. Mr. K. Kumar was one such man from our village. We called him Kumar ji out of respect. Kumarji hailed from a reputed Hindu Nair family of our village and spent his youth days in the independence struggle launched by Mahatma Gandhi. I remember him as a pleasing oldman always wearing Khadi clothes and a characteristic Khadi 'topi' [hat] and a charming smile on his face. I remember my parents telling me about his involvement in the political movements during the independence struggle and his association with the Mahatma. He had participated in the ' Salt Satyagraha' movement launched by Gandhiji as a devout disciple and such revered leaders like Gandhiji and Vinoba Bhave from the North had visited our village in Travancore, on account of him. He could have been a minister in the post independent era, but for the treachery and cunningness of ambitious politicians without principles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Any way, Kumarji as known to me, was not a national leader any more, but had retired to his home village attending local social issues. Perhaps with the ideologies of Gandhiji and Vonobaji he had taken the pains to set up a primary school to cater to the poor lower caste children called the ' Shri Gandhi Sarvodaya Lower Primary School '. This school was located in a prime location in our village on a piece of land owned by Kumarji's family. It was not exactly a private school, but a state government aided school- means the teacher's salaries were provided by state funding. The school had classes from One to Four, imparting government prescribed curriculam in Malayalam medium. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So, at the time of my school admission, my parents decided to get me admitted to this school, though they could have very well gotten me admitted to schools with better ambience and name, such as the ones where my parents were teachers. But they thought it otherwise and I salute them for that. Though this school no longer exists on account of the mushrooming of the so called English Medium Public Schools in my state and elsewhere in India, founded by business minded trusts and societies of men with little character for gullible and over ambitious parents, I am proud to be educated by this school during my childhood days. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Shri Gandhi Sarvodaya Lower Primary School was a long improvised building with un-plastered cut laterite bricks forming its pillars and half-walls with the upper wall portion made of cheap wooden panels. The roof was thatched with woven coconut leaves. There were no partition walls that separated the four individual class areas. That made the children seeing and hearing the other classes without any hinderance, except for the ever attentive class teacher whose presence guaranteed the childrens' attention to their respective classes only.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">There were five teachers in all including the headmistress, two of them gents. Regardless of their gender, we called each one of them ' Saar' - a word evolved in Kerala to address people of respect, perhaps from the english word 'sir'. I remember all of them with respect, though none of them to my knowledge is still living. They were, Janaki Saar, Gowri Saar one, Gowri Saar two, Raghavan Saar and Kuriakose Saar, the former being the HM. Raghavan Saar was my class teacher in class four. He had the special skill of quickly copying Kerala and India maps on the black board with the help of a piece of chalk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">That was the time when the government wanted the children to learn practical lessons of democracy at the schools. So at that time the concept of electing the head boy of the school designated as ' Pradhana Mantri' [ Prime Minister] got implemented. During that time I became a prominent and influential boy of the school surrounded and protected by a large group of boys including some well-experienced senior boys capable of doing anything. So naturally in class four, I became the 'Pradhana Mantri' by democratic means of campaigning and voting. I remember, printed notices pasted in all nooks and corner of our large village, inviting the public to the annual day of the school, in the name of the Pradhana Mantri and the Head Mistress. The school annual function at that time used to be a grand gala event attended by a large number of people from the general public. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">These were days of the early nineteen sixtees with the First Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru still in command. For us children, Independence day and Childrens' day [Birth Day of 'Chacha' Nehru] were of much color and festivity at that time. I remember the day, in 1964, when the news came about the death of Chacha Nehru.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I donot remember me studying anything specially for the purpose of our school examinations. I was a voracious reader of malayalam books , news papers and periodicals at that time. In the beginning of the school year itself, within a few days of receiving the new text books, I used to finish reading all those text books and the ideas presented in the lessons used to be in my mind. Coupled with that the attention in the class was sufficient for me to write the exams effortlessly, often scoring the highest marks. I also had a neat and tidy handwriting which my teachers and friends used to admire. In short I was a star attraction kid during those days. I donot remember the names of all my friends of those days. But Jose, Sathyan, Rajan, Ravi, Thomas, Abraham, etc are still in my mind. Out of this Jose keeps that friendship even today. Though the school was co-ed, I was a pretty shy boy to talk to girls, not to talk of befriending them. I hardly remember an occasion where I had talked to any girl. Incidently I have no sisters either. Yet, I remember occassions where my opponents at the school trying to malign my 'political image' by associating my name with a pretty girl. Those malicious campaigns had made me wishing for a friendship with her, but my shyness prevented it from happening.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I had many elderly people as my childhood friends- people who are 10-15 years older.The eminent orator, writer, teacher and local political leader, late Mr. Elanthur C T Mathai was one among them. When I was in Primary school, he probably might have completed his graduation. He himself was a writer and had a large collection of books in his possession. He used to give me both- his original writings and his books- for me to read. All in Malayalam. I remember reading classical unabridged translations of massive books like Monte Christo, Odyssy, Eliad, Three Muskateers, Ben-hur etc at that time from his collections.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">From Shri Gandhi Sarvodaya Lower Primary School my parents decided to get me admitted to Mar Thoma Upper Primary School, Karamveli, for further schooling from Class Five to Class Seven. MTUPS as this school is commonly known in our locality is a reputed Malayalam medium school under the corporate management of the influential Marthoma Syrian Church of Kerala, and was founded by my maternal grandfather. Hence, it is also known as 'Aikuzha School' , Aikuzha being the family name of my mother. This school was about 2-3 KM away from my home and was located at a higher elevation from the main road by the side of a hillock. My mother's home is just 100 meters away as the crow flies, but the actual distance by foot is a bit more. At the time I joined in this school, my grandpa late Mr J John was the Headmaster of this school, though shortly thereafter, his eldest son Mr John John (immediate younger brother of my mother) took over from him as the HM. Initially my parents had decided that I would stay in my mother's house and attend the school. Though I stayed there for some days, I developed home sickness within a short period. Thus I happened to be walking all the distance to and from the school to attend the school after a few months. Nevertheless, lunch was to be at my mother's home together with my grandpa, uncle and others, tastefully prepared under the able guidance of my grandma.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">During the days when I stayed there at Nellikkala- that was the place name of my mother's Aikuzha family homes- I happened to join the Public Library that existed a short distance away at a place called Karamveli. The membership fee was less than a rupee, sixty paise to be accurate. To my knowledge, there was nobody younger than or of my age there as members. Besides, I also got a chance to be the first reader of all Malayalam books that used to be purchased for our school as the books used to come to the HM's house first before actually carried to the school library.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In those days, out of the six younger siblings of my mother, only my HM uncle (Joychayan-that is what I call him) and the youngest one were the ones present in my mother's home besides my grand parents. Others had all migrated to other states, mostly to Bombay, in connection with their careers. The youngest sister, Ms. Elizebeth ( Moliammama- that's what I call her) was a college student and was more an elder sister to me than an aunt. We therefore had all the love, affection and perhaps the fights, which occassionally required intervention from grandma's side, mostly decided in my favour. Incidentally, Moliammama now lives in Trivandrum, leading a retired life together with her husband, after years of service in the central government holding important positions. It was during this time that I got the opportunity to attend grand family events like marriages of my mother's siblings during which time the house used to be filled up with relatives for days together.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I was a good student at MTUPS also. But there were one or two children who used to get more marks than me in the school exams and hence in competition with me. The boy who used to outsmart me was Yeshudas- though I have not seen him afterwards. My best friends here were one Rajan Samuel and one Radhakrishnan. Rajan Samuel was my friend not only here, but in later days too, up to higher secondary level. I have not met him afterwards, though his whereabouts are known- He was working as a bank manager in Kochi when I last heard about him. School elections were there in this school also, and here Yeshudas was elected as the Prime Minister and I had to content with the post of 'Education Minister'. I remember participating in 'cabinet meetings' regularly in the HM's chamber and taking salute at the school assembly, in the capacity as the said ' Education Minister'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">After completing Class Seven at MTUPS, my parents decided to admit me in a reputed school with medium of instruction in English language. They could have chosen the Mar Thoma High School, Pathanamthitta, located at our district HQ town and where my father taught Hindi. But, the St.Thomas High School, Kozhencherry was also considered as equally good and finally decided for my further studies. Thus in 1969 I joined Class Eight A-division of this school. Incidentally this was the year in which the Americans landed in Moon for the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Change over from Mlayalam to English was not that easy. Though I had good command and skill in my mother tongue and was able to write the exams without much preparations, using my own style of language, the whole thing changed with this English Medium. Moreover, me and my friend Rajan Samuel were the two boys who got admitted in the English Medium class at High School level, all others being boys experienced in this foreign language from their primary school days. Social Studies covering history, geography,civics etc could have been the easiest subject in Malayalam medium, but that turned out to be the most difficult one for me in English medium. The effect, I failed in that subject in the first term exam - my first failure in life. But there was some thing soothening as well. That was the fact that my rank in the class of 30-35 was 10 or so and I had been proved much better than my experienced classmates. This had also made a small change in the attitude of the boys of the class to me. They no longer considered me as an alien. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The school was a boys' school and the only females around were a few teachers. The school had Malayalam medium instructions as well and those were conducted in other divisions; division-A was for English Medium. The boys in our class mostly came from rich families or from upper middle class families.A few, were good in western music and skilled in handling musical instruments like guitar, organ, etc. My friend and class mate Mr Jacob George (Achukkutty-now an engineer settled in the USA) used to be fairly good in guitar. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It was during this time that our school adopted a new experiment in teaching. The teachers under the able leadership of our Headmaster, Mr.Unnoonni Saar, had decided to make our english medium high school class (Class VIII-A) as an experimental class. The gist of what they had decided were: (1) the class teacher and the main subject teachers in this class would be the most senior and eminent teachers of the school and that the same teachers would continue till the group passed out from the school after completing the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination of the Kerala State Education Board. (2) The students would not be caned or punished for mistakes and errors as was commonly done elsewhere, but would only be advised or coucelled instead (3) The teachers would be like friends to the boys (4) Science subjects would be taught by demonstration and practicals in the science room and not to be lectured (5) Boys would be encouraged to learn by themselves as far as possible (6) Scoring marks in the examinations would not be considered by any one as a priority.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">No one really thought that this experiment would go uninterrupted and with all its sincerity for the three years that we were to be in that school. But it was a success as far as I consider it now. The HM and our beloved class teacher Thomas Mathew Saar literally followed the experimentation!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I remember an incident that happened when we were in Class-IX. There was a period in which the regular subject teacher was absent. So the HM directed a young lady teacher, who was new to the profession engage our class. This lady- I should not quote her name- happened to be very beautiful and the rarity of the female species in our school added additional weightage to her beauty and charm. So she came to our class to our delight. Some time killing was found necessary. So she told us that she had heard of the musical talents of some boys in this class and that some are practising members of a renouned orchestra group of the locality. She wanted to hear some of these renowned vocalists sing for her. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Most of the boys were charmed by her beauty and was not in a mood to talk, but to gaze her avoiding any eye-contact with her. But we were amazed when one of our naughty friends volunteered to sing a song. Our delightful young teacher gave the permission to go ahead. To our surprise, he began to sing a contemporary malayalam filmy song, considered a bit sexy at the social standards of that time! The starter lines meant something like ' I love you my dear' or so and he was using all the facial and body actions, mostly oriented towards the lady. The song went for a few minutes like this and at its climax, to our utter dismay and surprise we found the lady crying uncontrollably, shaken by the adventure by this teenager. There was a commotion that followed forcing the senior teachers reaching the class in no time and escorting the lady to the teachers' room. We all expected a severe punishment for our friend. But keeping with the spirit of the experiment, he was not given any such punishments, but was only advised, that too in the class in our presence. (this boy, Mohan Thomas, incidentally lost his life a couple of years later in an accident at Kovalam Beach. He was a good swimmer and had gone for swimming in the shallow sea there with another friend of ours during a picnic. The other friend saw him disappearing behind the waters as if pulled by some thing from behind-perhaps a shark. Since the tourism authorities were trying to promote this beach as a safe spot in the international arena, this aspect of the news was prevented from getting publicity at that time!)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Barring such incidences, the school life at St.Thomas High School, Kozhencherry was smooth. I used to travel the 5-6 kilometer distance to school from my village, Elanthur, by regular private bus service that is part of the public transport system in our state. The commuting to school used to cost 20 nayapaise [ or one fifth of an Indian Rupee] a day. During the monsoons, every year, there used to be a few days of floods and the nearby River Pampa used to overflow with the many riveluttes too overflowing, submerging some of the roads leading to the school. We used to enjoy such occassions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Another memorable occassion was the time of the famous Maramon Christian Convention which used to be in the month of February every year. The convention used to be held in a vast pandal roofed by woven coconut leaves with bamboo poles acting as trusses and supports, erected on the vast expanse of river sand that used to appear on Pampa river due to receding waters with the river shrinking to a side as a fast flowing stream. As our school was managed by the largest Syrian Marthoma Church Parish at Kozhencherry which was part of the Syrian Marthoma Church of Kerala, responsible for organisaing this convention for more than a century, we senior students from the school used to get an opportunity to work as volunteers to work and help in the making of this vast convention pandal. I remember working on one or two years in such voluntary work, along with my local friends from Kozhencerry. The famaous Christian missionary from USA, Mr Stanley Johns used to be the regular preacher on those days. His speach used to be translated to Malayalam by some eminent clergy of the Marthoma Church. Nevertheless, I do not remember an occassion where such preaching had been understood by me at that time, even that was translated to my mother tongue. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I was very much interested in science subjects at that time and that used to be my favourite. My ambition then was to become a scientist, though I was not sure of the work of scientists. In between, I remember some of my classmates referring to the creed of chemical engineers and about their extra ordinary brilliance in making rockets and nuclear weapons! So secretly I wished to become a chemical engineer, again knowing pretty nothing about that profession. (Though I had not done anything serious later to accomplish this wish, God Almighty made my wish come true later!)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">My friends at St Thomas High School, Kozhencherry at that time were, Rajan Samuel (who was my middle school friend at Nellikkala), Achukkutty (Er Jacob George, now settled in USA), Joshua Easow, Eapen Varghese, Raju Jacob, N T Mathew (son of our class teacher Mr Thomas Mathew) and a few more ( whose names I am failing to recollect now).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">In the Seconadary School Leaving Certificate Examination (SSLC Exam that is what the exam is commonly known in our State ) of the Kerala State Secondary Education Board held in 1971 most of us in our class passed and about a third, including me in first class. Getting a first class in this exam at that time was considered a fairly good achievement, considering the fact that only less than 6000 students secured a first class in this exam from the whole of Kerala at that time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Equipped with a first class SSLC mark list and certificate most of us had migrated to the St Thomas College, Kozhencherry for higher secondary education spanning two years. That time the higher secondary education was part of the University curriculum and the course was known as Pre-Degree Course or PDC. There were four specialization streams in PDC- the First Group for maths-sciences, the Second Group for Bio-sciences, the Third Group for Arts and the Fourth Group for the Commerce stream. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The life at St.Thomas College, Kozhencherry was really enjoyable. There were a few old school friends in the class, besides new friends. The old pals included, Jacob George and Rajan Samuel. Besides, there was my best Sunday School friend and neighbour, Johnson Zachariah [ Rajan Urumbil]. Out of the 110 or so students in the class half were girls- a change from the boys' school culture earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The SSLC first class and the English Medium school background, besides the Kozhencherry brand gave a special status for the group which included me. The College had education right from junior Pre-degree level to Post Graduate Levels in Sciences, Arts and Commerce. Due to the high density of teenagers in Pre-degree classes, the college management considered it fit to assign the most experienced professors and lecturers to engage the Pre-degree classes, whereever feasible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The mathematics wizard, Late Prof Daniel and the senior Physics faculty, Prof P J Kurien deserves special mention here. It was Prof Daniel who instilled the pleasure of learning mathematics and it was Prof P J Kurien who taught the best way of learning Physics and mastering it. Prof Kurien used to be engaged in political activities that time itself and he was a member of the Kerala State Committee of the Indian National Congress. He later became a Member of the Parliament and a Minister in the Central Government at New Delhi.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">It was during these years that I got initiated into taking organizational activities in some note worthy manner. At our local Sunday School, the seniors decided to induct me, Rajan Urumbil and Koshy [ Prof.Koshy Thomas, Marthoma College, Thiruvalla] as teachers. Almost at the same period, I was elected as the Youth League Secretary of our parish [ Elanthur Marthoma Church], a position hetherto held by much senior people. I gratefully remember the support of late Elanthur C T Mathai and late Rev N K Yohannan, the then vicar of our church, in instigating the leadership qualities in me. The Church Youth League under my secretary ship was able to build a house and donate it to a needy person at that time as a charity initiative of the League and it was the late reverend who made it possible through us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Due to all these, the time passed without we ever noticing it and the Pre-Degree life came to a quick end after two years of teenage activities. I was one among the few to pass the Pre-degree exam with a First Class, securing good marks, especially to the satisfaction of Prof Daniel and Prof Kurien.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The marks scores were pretty good that I got admission call letters from all engineering colleges and almost for all disciplines where ever I applied. I also remember writing the entrance tests for the national level premier engineering institutions like the IITs and the Roorkee University adopting a very casual approach and not qualifying. From our locality hardly any one knew that those tests are attempted by studious boys with much preparations!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">At first I joined the most reputed engineering college out of the six existing at that time in our state-the Govt Engg College, Trivandrum, in Mechanical Engg stream. But later I changed my mind and decided to join for Chemical Engg at Govt Engineering College, Trichur. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">(To read the next part <a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2019/11/what-would-you-gain-by-knowing-about-my.html" target="_blank"><b>click here</b></a>!)</span></div>
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Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-67684835232675128672019-10-02T12:08:00.001+05:302019-10-11T11:57:58.654+05:30മരട് ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ പൊളിക്കുന്നത് എന്നെ ദുഃഖിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് എന്തു കൊണ്ട്?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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മനുഷ്യർ മനുഷ്യരോട് ചെയ്യുന്ന ക്രൂരതകൾ എന്നെ വളരെയധികം ദുഖിപ്പിക്കാറുണ്ട്. എന്താണിവർ ഇങ്ങനെ എന്ന് ഞാൻ എന്നോട് തന്നെ ചോദിക്കാറുമുണ്ട്. നിലനില്പിനായി മൄഗതുല്യരായ മനുഷ്യർ മറ്റുള്ളവരോട് കാട്ടുന്ന ദുഷ്ടതയും ക്രൂരതയും കാലാകാലങ്ങളായി നിലനിന്നിരുന്നത് തന്നെ എങ്കിലും ഇന്നത്തെ കാലത്ത് മാനുഷിക പരിഗണനകൾ പല മനുഷ്യരും കാണിക്കാത്തത് എന്നെ അത്ഭുതപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു.</div>
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അങ്ങനെയുള്ള പല പല സംഭവങ്ങളെ പറ്റി വാർത്താ മാദ്ധ്യമങ്ങളിൽ കൂടി അറിയുമ്പോൾ <b><a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_29.html" target="_blank">എന്റെ സഹജീവികളിൽ ദുഷ്ടത വർദ്ധിച്ചു വരുന്നല്ലോ എന്നോർത്ത് എന്റെ ദുഃഖം വർദ്ധിക്കുന്നു.</a></b></div>
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അങ്ങനെയുള്ള പല സംഭവങ്ങളും ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ മാത്രമല്ല ഈ ഭാരതത്തിലും ഈ കൊച്ചു കേരളത്തിലും നടന്നു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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എന്നാൽ മറ്റുള്ള ദേശക്കാരെക്കാൾ എന്റെ കൊച്ചു കേരളത്തിലെ മലയാളി സമൂഹം എന്തുകൊണ്ടും ദുഷ്ടത താരതമ്യേന കുറഞ്ഞവർ എന്നാണ് എനിക്ക് തോന്നിയിരുന്നത്. അത് എത്ര മാത്രം ശരി എന്ന് പറയുക എളുപ്പമല്ല. എന്നാൽ ഈ രാജ്യത്ത്, അതായത് ഇന്ത്യയിൽ, ദുഷ്ടത വളർന്നു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് ഇപ്പോൾ തോന്നിത്തുടങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്നു.</div>
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ഈ രാജ്യത്ത് നടക്കുന്ന ദുഷ്ടതകളെ പറ്റി എന്റെ മനസ്സിലുള്ളത് തുറന്ന് പറയാതിരുന്നാൽ ഞാനും ദുഷ്ടതക്കു കൂട്ടാളി ആയിത്തീരും എന്നൊരു പ്രയാസം ഉള്ളിലുണ്ട്. എന്നാൽ തുറന്നു പറഞ്ഞാൽ ദുഷ്ട ശക്തികൾ എനിക്കെതിരായി കൂട്ടം കൂടാൻ സാധ്യത ഉണ്ടെന്നതും എനിക്കറിയാത്തതല്ല. അതിനെ ഞാൻ ഭയക്കുന്നില്ല എന്നു പറയാനുള്ള കഴിവും ശക്തിയും എനിക്കില്ല എന്നതും വാസ്തവം.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">ഇന്ത്യയിൽ വർദ്ധിച്ചു വരുന്ന അസഹിഷ്ണതയെ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയുടെ ശ്രദ്ധയിൽ പെടുത്താൻ </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">തുറന്ന കത്തെഴുതിയ സാസ്കാരിക നായകർക്ക് എതിരെ രാജ്യദ്രോഹത്തിനു </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">കേസെടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് വാർത്ത! </span><br />
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എന്നാൽ ഈ രാജ്യത്തെ ഒരു മുതിർന്ന പൌരൻ ആയതിനാലും, നല്ലനീതിയും ദുഷ്ട നീതിയും എന്തെന്നു തിരിച്ചറിയാനുമുള്ള വകതിരിവു ദൈവം തന്നിരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന ബോധ്യം ഉള്ളതിനാലും, ചില ദുഷ്ടതകൾ ഈ രാജ്യത്ത് അരങ്ങേറുന്നത് കണ്ടില്ല എന്നു നടിച്ച് ഇരിക്കാൻ മനസ്സു വരുന്നില്ല എന്നതാണ് വാസ്തവം.</div>
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ഇപ്പോൾ പറയണം എന്ന് എന്റെ മനസ്സ് നിർബന്ധിക്കുന്ന കാര്യം ഈ അടുത്ത സമയത്ത് വാർത്താ മാധ്യമങ്ങളിൽ കൂടി വളരെ ചർച്ച ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു സുപ്രീം കോടതി വിധിയുടെ കാര്യമാണ്.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">പൊളിക്കാനുള്ള വിധിയെപ്പറ്റി തന്റെ അഭിപ്രായം വ്യക്തമാക്കുന്നു!</span><br />
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കൊച്ചിയിലെ മരട് എന്ന പ്രദേശത്ത് പണിതുയർത്തിയതും ഏതാണ്ട് മുന്നൂറ്റിയെഴുപതോളം കുടുംബങ്ങൾ കുറെ വർഷങ്ങളായി താമസിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നതുമായ അഞ്ച് വൻ ബഹുനില ഫ്ളാറ്റ് സമുച്ചയങ്ങൾ അടിയന്തിരമായി പൊളിച്ചു മാറ്റണം എന്ന ഇന്ത്യൻ സുപ്രീം കോടതി ഉത്തരവായിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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സാധാരണ ഗതിയിൽ കോടതികൾ ചിലപ്പോൾ ചില കർക്കശ നിലപാടുകളൂം വിധികളുമൊക്കെ പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കാറുണ്ട്. എന്നാൽ അതിലൊക്കെ അപ്പീലുകൾ അനുവദിക്കയും കേൾക്കുകയും കർക്കശ നിലപാടുകൾ മയപ്പെടുത്താറും ഒക്കെയാണ് കണ്ടു വരുന്നത്. എന്നാൽ ഈ കാര്യത്തിൽ കോടതി അതിനു തയാറാകുന്നില്ല. ഫ്ളാറ്റുകൾ പൊളിക്കുന്നത് ഒഴിവാക്കി മറ്റൊരു പരിഹാരത്തിനും ബഹുമാനപ്പെട്ട കോടതി അനുവദിക്കുന്നില്ല എന്നു മാത്രമല്ല, അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്യാതിരുന്നാൽ കോർട്ടലക്ഷ്യക്കുറ്റത്തിനു കേരളത്തിന്റെ ഉന്നത സർക്കാർ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥനായ ചീഫ് സെക്രട്ടറിയെ ജയിലിൽ അടയ്ക്കും എന്ന് കർശനമായി പറയുകയും ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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ഇക്കാര്യത്തിൽ ഇന്ത്യയുടെ കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാർ നിസ്സംഗ ഭാവത്തിൽ ആണ്.<br />
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കോടതി ഉത്തരവ് നടപ്പാക്കുക എന്നത് ഒരു വലിയ മാനുഷിക ദുരന്തം തന്നെ എന്നു മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ മനസ്സാക്ഷിയുള്ള ആർക്കും അത്ര വിഷമമുള്ള കാര്യമല്ല. അത് കേരളം ഭരിക്കുന്ന സംസ്ഥാന സർക്കാരിനെ വലിയ ഒരു വിഷമ വൄത്തത്തിൽ ആക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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കുഞ്ഞുകുട്ടി വൃദ്ധ വനിതകൾ അടക്കം ആയിരത്തോളം വരുന്ന ആ ഫ്ലാറ്റ് താമസക്കാരെ അവരുടെ സ്വപ്ന ഭവനങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും ഇറക്കി വിട്ടിട്ടു വേണം പണിതിട്ട് അധികം വർഷങ്ങൾ ആയിട്ടില്ലാത്ത ഈ മനോഹര ഫ്ലാറ്റ് സമുച്ചയങ്ങൾ പൊളിച്ചടുക്കാൻ.<br />
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ഇതു നിയമ പരിപാലനമാണ്, ഇതു വളരെ ശരിയായ തീരുമാനം തന്നെ എന്ന് എന്റെ നാട്ടുകാർ പലരും സോഷ്യൽ മീഡിയകളിലും മറ്റും അഭിപ്രായപ്പെടുന്നത് കാണുമ്പോൾ ദുഷ്ടതയുടെ നിർവചനം തന്നെ ഇപ്പോൾ മാറി മറിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു എന്നു ഞാൻ അതീവ ദുഃഖത്തോടെ മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നു.</div>
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നിയമം പരിപാലിക്കുന്ന സുപ്രീം കോടതി വിധി ആദരിക്കപ്പെടേണ്ടതു തന്നെ; എന്നാൽ കോടതികളും തെറ്റുകൾക്ക് അതീതമല്ലാത്തതു കൊണ്ടാണല്ലോ പലപ്പോഴും ഒരു കോടതി വിധിക്ക് കടക വിരുദ്ധമായി മറ്റൊരു കോടതി വിധി വരുന്നത് പലപ്പോഴും നമ്മൾ കണ്ടു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നത്!<br />
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വിധി നടപ്പാകട്ടെ, അതു വിധിയാണ്, നിയമ വ്യവസ്ഥയുടെ കാര്യമാണ്. നിയമപരമായി ശരിയായിരിക്കാം. എന്നാൽ മാനുഷിക പരിഗണനയിൽ ഈ ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ പൊളിച്ചടുക്കുന്നത് പലവിധ കാരണങ്ങളാൽ മനുഷ്യ ദുഷ്ടതയുടെ കടന്നു കയറ്റം മൂലമോ എന്ന് ചിന്തിക്കുന്നത് നമ്മുടെ സമൂഹത്തിലെ ദുഷ്ട പ്രവണതകളെ കണ്ടെത്താൻ ഒരു പക്ഷേ സഹായകരമാകും. </div>
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ഒന്നാമതായി ഈ ഫ്ലാറ്റുകളിൽ താമസിക്കുന്നവർ വ്യക്തിപരമായി ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു ശിക്ഷ അനുഭവിക്കാനുള്ള കുറ്റ കൄത്യങ്ങൾ ചെയ്തവരല്ല. അവർ ചെയ്തത് സർക്കാരിന്റെ അനുമതിയോടെ എന്നു അവർ വാസ്തവമായി വിശ്വസിച്ച ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ അതു പണിതുയർത്തിയ റിയൽ എസ്റ്റേറ്റ് കമ്പനികളിൽ നിന്നും വൻ വില കൊടുത്തു വാങ്ങി തങ്ങളുടെ സ്വപ്ന ഭവനങ്ങൾ ആക്കിയെന്നതു മാത്രമാണ്. പലരും ആയുഷ്ക്കാല സമ്പാദ്യങ്ങൾ ഈ ഭവനങ്ങൾക്കു വേണ്ടി മുടക്കി. ഈ വസതികൾ ആഡംബര വസതികൾ തന്നെ എന്നതു കൊണ്ട് അതു വാങ്ങിയവരെല്ലാം അനധികൄതമായി സ്വത്തു സ്വരൂപിച്ചവർ എന്ന് വിചാരിക്കുന്നത് ശരിയല്ല. അവർക്ക് നീതി കിട്ടേണ്ട കാര്യമൊന്നുമില്ല എന്നു കരുതുന്നത് ദുഷ്ടചിന്തയുടെ ഫലം മൂലം ആകാനേ വഴിയുള്ളൂ.</div>
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ഈ വസതികൾ വാങ്ങിയ ആൾക്കാരെ സംബദ്ധിച്ചിടത്തോളം അവരുടെ എല്ലാം കൈവശം ഇത്തരം ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ വാങ്ങിയത് സംബന്ധിച്ചുള്ള എല്ലാവിധ സർക്കാർ നിബന്ധന രേഖകളും ഉണ്ട്. അതായത് അവരെ സംബന്ധിച്ചിടത്തോളം അവർ വാങ്ങിയത് നിയമാനുസൄതം തന്നെ.</div>
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ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു വിധി പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കുന്നതിനു മുമ്പ് ആ വിധിയുടെ അന്തിമ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ അനുഭവിക്കുന്നത് അതിന്റെ ഉടമസ്ഥരും താമസക്കാരും ആയതിനാൽ അവർക്ക് പറയാനുള്ളതു കൂടി കേൾക്കുക എന്നത് സാമാന്യ നീതി മാത്രം. എന്നാൽ ഇവിടെ അങ്ങനെ സംഭവിച്ചില്ല. അപ്പോൾ അതിനെ ന്യായമായ നീതി നിർവഹണം എന്നു എങ്ങനെ കരുതും?</div>
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കുറെ വർഷങ്ങൾക്ക് മുമ്പ് ഇന്ത്യയുടെ കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാർ തീരദേശ പരിപാലന നിയമം എന്ന ഒരു നിയമം പാസാക്കുന്നു. അതിൻ പ്രകാരം ആർക്കും ഇന്ത്യയിൽ കടൽ, കായൽ തീരങ്ങളുടെ ഒരു നിശ്ചിത പരിധിക്കുള്ളിൽ വൻ നിർമ്മാണങ്ങൾ ഒന്നും നടത്താൻ പറ്റില്ല എന്ന സ്ഥിതി സംജാതമായി. അതായത് തീരപ്രദേശങ്ങളിൽ വസ്തു വകകൾ ഉള്ളവർക്ക് നിയമം പറഞ്ഞ പരിധിക്കുള്ളിൽ കെട്ടിടങ്ങളോ വ്യവസായങ്ങളോ ഒന്നും തുടങ്ങാൻ പറ്റാതെ ആയി. ഈ നിയമം വലിയ പരിസ്ഥിതി പഠനം ഒക്കെ നടത്തിയതിനു ശേഷമായിരുന്നു എന്നു കരുതുക പ്രയാസം. ഈ നിയമത്തിലെ നിർമാണ നിരോധന മേഖല വാസ്തവത്തിൽ വളരെ കൂടുതൽ ആയിരുന്നു. വളരെ പ്രായോഗിക ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടുകൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്ന ഒരു നിയമ നിർമ്മാണം തന്നെ ആയിരുന്നു അത്. മാത്രമല്ല, സാധാരണക്കാർക്കും, സർക്കാർ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർക്കും കൂടി മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ പ്രയാസമുള്ള പലതും ഈ നിയമത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു എന്നും കരുതണം. ഇന്ത്യയേക്കാൾ പരിസ്ഥിതി സംരക്ഷണത്തിൽ അതി ശ്രദ്ധ പതിപ്പിക്കുന്ന അനേകം രാജ്യങ്ങളിൽ പോലും ഇങ്ങനെ പുരോഗതിയെ പ്രതികൂലമായി ബാധിക്കുന്ന ഒരു നിയമം ഇല്ല എന്നത് ഈ ഇന്ത്യൻ നിയമത്തിലെ പാളിച്ചകളെ വ്യക്തമാക്കുന്നു.</div>
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തീരദേശ പരിപാലന നിയമത്തിലെ കുരുക്കുകൾ സാധാരണക്കാർക്ക് മനസ്സിലാകുന്നത് അല്ലാത്തതു കാരണം അഴിമതിക്കാരായ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർക്കും അവരുടെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ മേലാളർക്കും അവരുടെ ഇഷ്ടരീതിയിൽ കാര്യങ്ങൾ നടത്താൻ അവസരം ഒരുക്കിക്കിട്ടി.</div>
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ഇന്ത്യയിൽ അതിവേഗം വളർച്ച പ്രാപിച്ചു വന്ന ഒരു ബിസിനസ്സ് ആയിരുന്നു റിയൽ എസ്റ്റേറ്റ്. കടൽത്തീരങ്ങളിലും കായൽ നദീ തീരങ്ങളിലും പണിതുയർത്തിയ പട്ടണപ്രദേശങ്ങളിലെ ഫ്ളാറ്റുകൾക്ക്, വിദേശങ്ങളിൽ ജോലി ചെയ്ത് നാട്ടുകാരെക്കാൾ കൂടുതൽ പണം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയിരുന്നവർ വൻ വില നൽകാൻ മടിച്ചില്ല. അത് തീരദേശ കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ കൂടുതൽ പണിഞ്ഞു വിൽക്കാൻ റിയൽ എസ്റ്റേറ്റ് കമ്പനികൾക്ക് പ്രേരണയായി. ഇന്ത്യയുടെ സാമ്പത്തിക തലസ്ഥാനമായ മുംബൈ പോലുള്ള വൻ നഗരങ്ങളിൽ ഈ നിയമം വരുന്നതിനു വളരെ മുമ്പ് തന്നെ കടൽത്തീര വസതികൾ ആഡംബരത്തിന്റെ പ്രതീകമായി മാറിക്കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു.</div>
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അതുകൊണ്ടു തന്നെ പ്രായോഗികമല്ലാത്ത തീരദേശ പരിപാലന നിയമം അതിജീവിച്ച് സർക്കാർ വക അനുമതികൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കിയെടുക്കാൻ കമ്പനികൾ പലതും വഴിവിട്ട പണികളും ചെയ്തിരിക്കാം. അനുവാദങ്ങൾ കിട്ടിയ കമ്പനികൾ കെട്ടിട സമുച്ചയങ്ങൾ പണിതുയർത്തി വിറ്റു ലാഭം കൊയ്തു. നിയമത്തിലെ പ്രത്യേകതകൾ കാരണം നിയമലംഘനം പലർക്കും മനസ്സിലായിരുന്നതുമില്ല.</div>
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ഈ നിയമം സർക്കാരിനും വിനയാകും എന്നത് കുറെ വർഷങ്ങൾക്കകം കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാരിനും മനസ്സിലായി. മുംബൈയിൽ പുതിയ വിമാനത്താവളം പണിയാൻ ഈ നിയമം തടസ്സം എന്ന് മനസ്സിലായപ്പോൾ കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാർ തീരദേശ പരിപാലന നിയമ വ്യവസ്ഥകൾ ലഘൂകരിച്ചു.</div>
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സ്വാഭാവിക നീതിയിലും സങ്കേതിക പരിഗണനയിലും ഇങ്ങനെയുള്ള ഉദാരവൽക്കരിക്കപ്പെട്ട നിയമ വ്യവസ്ഥകൾ പഴയ തെറ്റായ വ്യവസ്ഥകളുടെ പ്രയാസം അനുഭവിച്ചവർക്കും ബാധകം ആവേണ്ടതാണ്.<br />
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എന്നാൽ ഇവിടെ അങ്ങനെ നടന്നില്ല എന്നതും ആ കാര്യങ്ങൾ പരിഗണിക്കാനുള്ള അവസരം കോടതിയിൽ നിഷേധിക്കപ്പെട്ടതായും പറയപ്പെടുന്നു. അങ്ങനെയെങ്കിൽ അത് ന്യായമായ നീതി നടപ്പാകുന്നതിനു തടസ്സമായി എന്നു തന്നെ കരുതണം.<br />
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ബഹുനില കോൺക്രീറ്റ് കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ ലോകത്തിൽ എവിടെയും കടൽത്തീര നഗരങ്ങളുടെ ഭംഗി കൂട്ടുന്നു. പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും അങ്ങനെയുള്ള ബഹുനില കെട്ടിട സമുച്ചയങ്ങൾ രൂപകല്പന ചെയ്യുന്ന ആർക്കിടെക്റ്റുകൾ അവരുടെ കഴിവിന്റെ പരമാവധി ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണു ഈ മനോഹര സൌധങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കുവൻ പരിശ്രമിക്കുന്നത്. അവരുടെ സൃഷ്ടി അകാലത്തിൽ നശിപ്പിക്കുന്നത് അവരെ സംബന്ധിച്ചിടത്തോളം മൄത്യു തുല്യം ആണെന്നത് സാധാരണ ജനങ്ങൾക്ക് എതമാത്രം മനസ്സിലാകും എന്നറിയില്ല. അതു തന്നെയാണ് നൂറ്റാണ്ടുകളോളം അതു നിലനിൽക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹിച്ച് രൂപകല്പനയിലും നിർമ്മാണത്തിലും പങ്കാളികളായ എഞ്ചിനിയർമാരുടെയും കാര്യം. ഒരു എഞ്ചിനീയർ ആയി ഒരു ആയുഷ്ക്കാലം പ്രവർത്തിച്ച എനിക്ക് ഇതു മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ ഒരു പ്രയാസവും ഇല്ല. എന്നാൽ ഇക്കാര്യം കോടതി പരിഗണിച്ചതായി എങ്ങും പറയുന്നില്ല.<br />
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ബഹുനില കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ പണിയുന്നത് സിമെന്റ് കോൺക്രീറ്റും സ്റ്റീൽ, ഗ്ലാസ്, അലുമിനിയം, പ്ലാസ്റ്റിക് മുതലായ വസ്തുക്കൾ ഉപയോഗത്തിൽ വരുത്തിയും ആണ്. ഇവ പതിറ്റാണ്ടുകൾ നില നിൽക്കാൻ ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചു പണിയപ്പെടുന്നവയാണ്. കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ പണിയുമ്പോൾ ആ പ്രദേശത്തിന്റെ ജിയൊഗ്രാഫി സ്ഥിരമായി മാറ്റപ്പെടുന്നു. ഒരു വൻ കെട്ടിടം പൊളിക്കുമ്പോൾ അതിൽനിന്നുളവാകുന്ന പൊടി പടലവും പാഴ്വസ്തുക്കളും പരിസ്ഥിതിക്ക് സ്ഥിരമായ പ്രതികൂല അവസ്ഥ സൄഷ്ടിക്കുന്നു. സാങ്കേതികമായി നോക്കിയാൽ വൻ ബഹുനില കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ പൊളിക്കുന്നത് സുരക്ഷക്കും ഭീഷണിയാണ്. സ്വബോധമുള്ള ഒരു പരിസ്ഥിതി വാദിയും പരിസ്ഥിതി സംരക്ഷണത്തിനായി വൻ കോൺക്രീറ്റ് സൌധങ്ങൾ പൊളിക്കാൻ അതിനാൽ ആവശ്യപ്പെടില്ല.<br />
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കാലപ്പഴക്കം കൊണ്ട് സുരക്ഷക്ക് വൻ ഭീഷണിയാകുന്ന കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ പൊളിച്ചു മാറ്റുന്നത് ഉചിതം തന്നെ. എന്നാൽ വൻ കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ പൊളിക്കുന്നത് ഒഴിച്ചു കൂടാൻ വയ്യാത്ത അറ്റകൈ പ്രയോഗം മാത്രം ആയിരിക്കണം. കുലപാതകത്തിനു വധശിക്ഷ വിധിക്കും പോലെ, അപൂർവങ്ങളിൽ അപൂർവമായി മാത്രം. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അതു സമൂഹത്തിലും പ്രകൄതിയിലും കടന്നു കൂടിയ ദുഷ്ടതയുടെ അതിപ്രസരം എന്നു വിവക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടും.<br />
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ഇതിനെല്ലാം പുറമെയാണ് വ്യക്തികൾക്കും സമൂഹത്തിനും വന്നു ഭവിക്കുന്ന സാമ്പത്തിക നഷ്ടങ്ങൾ. ജനങ്ങൾക്ക് നിയമവ്യവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള വിശ്വാസം നഷ്ടപ്പെടാൻ തന്നെ ഇതു കാരണമാകും. നിയമം സമ്പത് വ്യവസ്ഥയ്ക്ക് തടസ്സമായാൽ രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ പുരോഗതി അധോഗതിയാകും. ഇന്ത്യയെ പോലെയുള്ള ഒരു രാജ്യത്തിനു ഇങ്ങനെയുള്ള ഒരു ദുർഗ്ഗതിയിൽ നിന്നും കരകയറാൻ വർഷങ്ങൾ വേണ്ടി വരും എന്നത് എല്ലാവരും ഓർത്താൽ നല്ലത് എന്നേ പറയാനുള്ളൂ.<br />
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ഈ വിധി നടപ്പായാൽ ഇതേ കാരണങ്ങളാൽ നിയമം കണിശമായി പാലിക്കപ്പെടാത്തതും എന്നാൽ എങ്ങനെയൊക്കെയോ അനുവാദങ്ങൾ സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച് പണിതുയർത്തിയതും ജനങ്ങൾ വാങ്ങിയതും ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നതുമായ അനേകം കെട്ടിടങ്ങൾ ഈ രാജ്യത്ത് ഒരു പക്ഷേ പൊളിക്കേണ്ടതായി വരാം. അതു ആത്യന്തികമായി ഒരു നല്ല കാര്യമല്ല എന്നാണ് എനിക്കു തോന്നുന്നത്.<br />
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മരട് ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ കോടതി വിധി പാലിക്കപ്പെടാനായി പൊളിക്കപ്പെടാനുള്ള തയ്യാറെടുപ്പുകൾ മനസ്സില്ലാ മനസ്സോടെയെങ്കിലും കേരള സർക്കാർ നടത്തിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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അങ്ങനെ നടന്നാൽ അതു ന്യായമായ വിധി നടപ്പാക്കൽ തന്നെ എന്ന് ഒരു പക്ഷേ പറയാം എങ്കിലും ഗാന്ധിജി വിഭാവനം ചെയ്ത ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ മാനുഷിക പാരമ്പര്യത്തിനും മൂല്യങ്ങൾക്കും എക്കാലത്തും മങ്ങലുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന ഒരു ദുഃഖ സത്യമായി അവശേഷിക്കും!<br />
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പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും ജോലിയിൽ നിന്നും വിരമിച്ച എന്നെ പോലെയുള്ള ലക്ഷക്കണക്കിനു ഇന്ത്യക്കാർക്ക് അർഹതപ്പെട്ട ഈപിഎഫോ പെൻഷൻ (EPFO Pension) കൊടുക്കണമെന്നു സുപ്രീം കോടതിയും നിരവധി ഹൈക്കോടതികളും വിധിച്ചിട്ടും ആ വിധി നടപ്പാക്കാൻ വർഷങ്ങളായി വിമുഖത കാണിച്ച് അതു നടപ്പാകാതിരിക്കാൻ പലവിധ തന്ത്രങ്ങൾ മെനഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാരിനെക്കൊണ്ട് ആ വിധി നടപ്പാക്കാൻ യാതൊരു വിധ താല്പര്യവും കാണിക്കാത്തതും ഇതേ കോടതി തന്നെ എന്നു മനസ്സിലായവർക്ക് ഈ ഫ്ലാറ്റുപൊളി വിധി നടപ്പാക്കാനുള്ള കോടതി താല്പര്യത്തെ അതി ദുഃഖത്തോടെയെ വീക്ഷിക്കാൻ സാധിക്കൂ.<br />
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അധികാര കേന്ദ്രങ്ങളിൽ ഇരിക്കുന്നവരിൽ ഒരു നല്ല പങ്കിനും ആർഷഭാരത മൂല്യങ്ങൾക്കനുസരിച്ച് വർത്തിക്കാൻ കഴിയുന്നില്ല എന്നതിൽ വിവേക നഷ്ടം വന്നിട്ടില്ലാത്ത സാധാരണക്കാർക്ക് ദുഃഖിക്കാനല്ലാതെ എന്തു ചെയ്യാൻ പറ്റും?</div>
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ഒരു നല്ല പങ്ക് ആൾക്കാർക്കും ഈ ചോദ്യം മനസ്സിലായെന്നു വരികയില്ല. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഈ ചോദ്യത്തിന്റെ പ്രസക്തിയെ തന്നെ അവർ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്തെന്നും ഇരിക്കും.</div>
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അതെ, പലരും ഇന്ന് ദുഷ്ടത എന്തെന്നു മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ പറ്റിയ മാനസിക സ്ഥിതിയിൽ അല്ല. നന്മയും തിന്മയും മനസ്സിലാക്കാനുള്ള കഴിവ് മനുഷ്യർക്ക് കുറഞ്ഞു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. <b><a href="https://rajan-c-mathew.blogspot.com/2019/08/blog-post_31.html" target="_blank">മറ്റുള്ളവർക്ക് പാര പണിയാൻ പലർക്കും താല്പര്യം</a> </b>കൂടി വരുന്നു.</div>
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എന്താണ് ദുഷ്ടത? അന്യരെ ഉപദ്രവിക്കുന്നത് മാത്രമല്ല ദുഷ്ടത.</div>
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അറിയാൻ പാടില്ലാത്ത ജോലി അറിയുമെന്ന് ഭാവിക്കുന്നതും തോന്നിയപോലെ നിർവഹിക്കുന്നതും ഒരുതരം ദുഷ്ടതയാണ്. അതു പോലെ തന്നെയാണ് അർഹതയില്ലാത്ത പദവികൾ നേരായ മാർഗത്തിൽ അല്ലാതെ നേടിയെടുത്ത് ആ പദവിക്ക് ചേരാത്ത രീതിയിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നത്.</div>
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മറ്റുള്ളവരിൽ നന്മ കാണാൻ കഴിയാത്തത് ദുഷ്ടത. തിന്മയെ തിന്മകൊണ്ട് ഇല്ലായ്മ ചെയ്യാമെന്നു കരുതുന്നതും പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതും ദുഷ്ടത.</div>
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അറിവില്ലായ്മയും അറിവ് നേടാൻ താത്പര്യം ഇല്ലാത്തതും ദുഷ്ടതയുടെ വകഭേദം തന്നെയാണ്. അറിയാത്ത കാര്യം അറിയുമെന്ന് ഭാവിക്കുന്നതും അതു പോലെ തന്നെ.</div>
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ആലോചനയില്ലാത്ത എടുത്തു ചാട്ടവും അങ്ങനെ തന്നെ.</div>
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അഹങ്കാരം വലിയ ദുഷ്ടതയാണ്. അത് മനസ്സാക്ഷിയുടെ നടത്തിപ്പിനെ അവഗണിക്കാൻ കാരണമാകും. വൻ ദുഷ്ടത പ്രവർത്തിക്കാൻ അതു വഴിവയ്ക്കും. ജീവന്റെയും ഭൂമിയുടെയും പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിന്റെയും സൄഷ്ടാവായ ദൈവത്തെ മറന്ന് പ്രവർത്തിക്കാനും അതിന്റെ ഭവിഷ്യത്തുകൾ വരുത്തി വയ്ക്കാനും അതു കാരണമാകും.</div>
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ദുഷ്ടത ചിലർക്ക് വൻ ഗുണം ചെയ്യുന്നു എന്ന് മറ്റ് ദുഷ്ട മനസ്സുകാർക്ക് തോന്നുന്നതും ദുഷ്ടത കൊണ്ടു തന്നെയാണ്. എന്നാൽ വാസ്തവത്തിൽ ദുഷ്ടത ആർക്കും ഗുണം ചെയ്യില്ല. ദുഷ്ടത ദുഷ്ടതയെ വർദ്ധിപ്പിക്കയും എല്ലാവർക്കും അതിന്റെ ദോഷം അനുഭവിക്കേണ്ടി വരികയും ചെയ്യും.</div>
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അപ്പോൾ ഈ ലോകത്തിൽ ദുഷ്ടത പെരുകുന്നതും അതിന്റെ പ്രയാസങ്ങൾ നമ്മൾ അനുഭവിക്കേണ്ടി വരുന്നതും നമ്മളിൽ ഒരോരുത്തരിലും ഉള്ള ചെറുതും വലുതുമായ ദുഷ്ടത കൊണ്ടു തന്നെയാണ്.</div>
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അതു കൊണ്ട് ദുഷ്ടത പെരുകി ഈ ലോകം നരക തുല്യം ആകാതിരിക്കാൻ സ്വയം ആത്മ പരിശോധന ചെയ്ത് സ്വന്തം ദുഷ്ടത ഇല്ലാതെയാക്കാൻ നാമോരുത്തരും ജാഗ്രത പാലിച്ചാൽ നമ്മുടെ വരും തലമുറകൾക്ക് ഗുണമാകാം.</div>
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ഇതു മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ ദുഷ്ടത നിങ്ങളെ അനുവദിച്ചു എന്നു വരികയില്ല. അനുവദിച്ചെങ്കിൽ നല്ലത്!</div>
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പിന്നെ ദുഷ്ടതയെ പരിപോഷിപ്പിക്കാൻ മനുഷ്യർക്ക് ചില സഹായങ്ങൾ കാണാമറയത്തിരുന്നു ചെയ്തു കൊടുക്കുന്ന അദൄശ്യ ദുഷ്ട ശക്തികളും ഈ ലോകത്തുണ്ട് എന്നത് പലർക്കും വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ പ്രയാസം. </div>
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എന്നാൽ നന്മയിൽ ജീവിക്കുന്നവരെ ഈ ദുഷ്ടതകളുടെ അതിപ്രഭാവത്തിൽ നിന്നും പ്രപഞ്ച സൄഷ്ടാവിന്റെ ശക്തി രക്ഷിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കും. എല്ലാവിധ ദുഷ്ടതയേയും പരിപൂർണ്ണമായി ഇല്ലായ്മ ചെയ്യുന്ന കാലം വരെ.</div>
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അങ്ങനെയൊരു കാലം ഉണ്ടാകില്ല എന്ന് എല്ലാ ദുഷ്ടന്മാരും കരുതുന്നു. ദുഷ്ടത നിറഞ്ഞ മനസ്സിൽ സൽബുദ്ധി ഉദിക്കാൻ അത്ര എളുപ്പമല്ല!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some nations in this world are now decades ahead of several others with regard to material progress and human development index.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some are fast moving ahead while some others are stagnant or even in reverse growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But why? Have you ever thought about it? Why some communities are progressive while others are not?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now let us see the common explanations that we make to explain this situation if we find our own nation in degenerative growth:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">-Our leaders are corrupt (Why are they?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">-We had been exploited in the past decades by others (Only you? )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- They have all the resources and we don't have that much.(Really?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">-We have been poor and illiterate (Why?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">-Our numbers are much more than we can sustain (Really?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">-We are multi-linguistic,multi-cultured and multi-religious (So?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whatever be the excuses, the fact is that some nations are more advanced than several others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But what is the secret of some nations progress at a faster pace than others? To understand that one must understand the basics of economic growth and the role of money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now let us examine some of the basic concepts of economics and money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Money is the measure of the value of quality and quantity of materials or work or certain special situations required by humans for satisfying their multifaceted needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here value is something arbitrary and depends on the people involved in the exchange (giving and taking) of the materials and the work or situations or services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let us consider a few examples:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I do some cultivation and produce say 100 kg of potatoes that I do not need for my use, I can either give away those to some one free or sell to some one after fixing some mutually agreeable unit for value. The mutually agreeable unit for value as legally defined and controlled by the government of a country is called the currency of that country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In India it is called the rupee. In the US it is the dollar. If I find a buyer for my potatoes who is ready to buy the potatoes for a value of say fifty rupees a kg then I get 5000 rupees for my produce of potatoes. Suppose we make a deal for a work or service for transporting and supply of the potatoes from my place to the buyer's place for say 500 rupees, this will become the service charge for transportation of the potatoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This way we can identify materials (goods) and work (services) or even situations (for example rent for a room or house) or entertainment ( cost of watching a show) or time ( an amusement ride for an hour) and the like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When an exchange of money takes place between a provider and a procurer (seller and buyer) for a value for any goods or service or other human need we can say that an economic activity has taken place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The total of all such values for the economic activities taking place in a nation is called it Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Since the government is the umpire of the game of economics, it is bound to charge a small fee for its supervision. It is called the taxes. Taxes are a small percentage of the value in transaction or the profits made in the transactions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now if the GDP of a nation and the corresponding wealth of the nation as gained from taxation can increase when the number of economic transactions and the value of goods and service in transaction increase. When GDP grows, opportunities of employment and more opportunities for economic activities grow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When humans remain underdeveloped human needs are also limited. If human needs are limited to basic needs of food, shelter and clothing there cannot be much value to several things and services that we see today. Thus human progress and economic activities and its value are all interrelated. The more we progress, the more the chances of economic activities and the more the potential for higher value for services and goods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now how can the government enhance value, economic activities and wealth of the nation? In fact it all depends on the government, the umpire of economics of a nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the umpire is clever, the game can be continued even when the players do not know how to play well. So here the umpire needs to be practical and pragmatic. If the umpire is too strict or too lazy, the game can stop abruptly without anyone enjoying the game!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a similar way, the government or the leaders who form the government needs to be practical or broadminded people for a nation to become wealthy and prosperous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a government knows the fundamentals of economics, value and wealth and the tricks for enhancing GDP even when they make and enforce rules!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now the foremost thing that the government needs to ensure is that all the citizens have opportunities for fulfilling their basic requirements for survival. It is the governments' primary responsibility that the citizens have food, shelter, clothing, means of education, healthcare, entertainment and the like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second thing should be to enhance the amount of excess money that the individuals have over and above the money needed for essential goods and services for survival. When the number of individuals with excess incomes grow the demand for not so essential goods and services grow thereby enhancing more economic activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The taxation laws made by the government should not be instrumental in killing economic activities, rather it should be made carefully in such a way that both saving and spending of people are encouraged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the earlier example, imagine that the individuals have enough excess money to buy potatoes even at 100 rupees rather than 50, my income by selling potatoes double from 5000 to 10000. If the tax rate is say 10% the governments' income too double. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But when there is much difference in the values from nation to nation, the economics involving international trade becomes complex and the governments need to be more shrewd and practical. This is where intelligence of leadership becomes more and more important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In such a scenario, the clever governments becomes more wealthier and stupid governments lead their people to doom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stupid governmental acts are those acts that kill opportunities for economic activities to grow. Analyze any government act of say new law, rule, taxation etc. If it is directly or indirectly causing economic activities of people to decrease, it should be stupid as far as economic growth is concerned. When I say economic activity, I exclude those activities that are potentially dangerous for the safety and security of the people and the nation as a whole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the people are also economic novices, their leaders too are likely to be like that. And such situations enhance economic disparities to grow among nations of this world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And factors like greed, corruption, stupidity and desire for controlling others and such other evils take control of human mind both in the people and their leaders. When that sets in, unseen evil forces take control of human minds in more and more numbers.</span><br />
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ഇന്ത്യയുടെ നല്ലകാലം ഇപ്പോൾ കഷ്ടകാലമായി മാറിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നോ? ഇന്ത്യാ ഗവർമെന്റ് റിസർവ് ബാങ്കിന്റെ കരുതൽ ശേഖരത്തിൽ നിന്നും കൂടുതൽ തുക ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടതിനെപ്പറ്റിയും ഏതാണ്ട് ഒന്നേമുക്കാൽ ലക്ഷം കോടി സർക്കാരിനു കൊടുക്കാൻ റിസർവ് ബാങ്ക് അവസാനം സമ്മതിച്ചു എന്നും ഒക്കെ വാർത്തകൾ കണ്ടും കേട്ടുമൊക്കെ ഇരിക്കയാണല്ലോ.</div>
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ഇന്ത്യാ ഗവർമെന്റ് പണത്തിനു ഞെരുക്കം അനുഭവിക്കുന്നു എന്നു വേണം കരുതാൻ. ഒന്നുകിൽ ടാക്സ് വരുമാനം ഉദ്ദേശിച്ച അത്ര വരുന്നില്ല. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ വരുമാനത്തേക്കാൾ സർക്കാർ ചെലവുകൾ വർദ്ധിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.</div>
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സാമാന്യ ജനത്തേക്കാൾ വിവരം കൂടിയ ഇന്ത്യക്കാർ ഈ ഒരു അവസ്ഥയെ പറ്റി പൊതുവിൽ പറയുകയും എഴുതുകയും ഒക്കെ ചെയ്യുന്നു. റിസർവ് ബാങ്കിന്റെ കരുതൽ ധനം എന്തെന്നറിയാൻ താഴെയുള്ള വിഡിയോ കാണാംഃ</div>
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ഇന്ത്യയുടെ സമ്പത് വ്യവസ്ഥ അപകടമാകും വിധമുള്ള തകർച്ചയിലേക്ക് കൂപ്പു കുത്തിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന സാമ്പത്തിക വിദഗ്ദ്ധനും മുൻ പ്രധാന മന്ത്രിയുമായ ശ്രീ മൻ മോഹൻ സിംഗ് ഈ അടുത്ത ദിവസം അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടത് ഒരു മലയാളം ടി വി ചാനൽ റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്ത വിഡിയൊ ആണു താഴെ കാണുന്നത്ഃ<br />
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അദ്ദേഹം പറയുന്ന ഒരു കാര്യം പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും ശ്രദ്ധേയം ആണ്. മോശം ഭരണം അല്ലെങ്കിൽ നല്ല ഭരണം നയിക്കാൻ ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ സർക്കാരിനു കഴിയാത്തതു കൊണ്ടാണ് ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു സ്ഥിതി വന്നത് എന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം പറയുന്നു.<br />
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ഇന്ത്യയുടെ സാമ്പത്യ സ്ഥിതിയുടെ ഒരു ഏകദേശ ധാരണ കിട്ടാൻ വാഹന വിപണിയുടെ ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ നില നോക്കിയാൽ മതി. വാഹന വിൽപ്പന വലിയ തോതിൽ കുറഞ്ഞു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. താഴെ കാണുന്ന ചാനൽ വാർത്ത കാണുകഃ</div>
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എന്നാൽ രാജ്യത്ത് ഒരു സാമ്പത്തിക പ്രശ്നങ്ങളും ഇല്ല എന്നാണു ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ ഇന്ത്യൻ ധനകാര്യ മന്ത്രി ശ്രീമതി നിർമലാ സീതാരാമൻ പറയുന്നത്. അവർ പറഞ്ഞത് റ്റി വി യിൽ വന്നത് കൂടി കേൾക്കാംഃ</div>
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കാര്യങ്ങൾ എങ്ങനെയൊക്കെ ആയാലും ഈ പ്രതിസന്ധിയുടെ തിക്തഫലം ഇന്ത്യയിലെ ജനങ്ങൾ പരോക്ഷമായെങ്കിലും ഇപ്പോൾ അനുഭവിച്ചു തുടങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്നു എന്നു വേണം കരുതാൻ. ഇതു ഒരു താൽക്കാലിക പ്രതിഭാസമോ അതോ ദീർഘകാലത്തേക്കുള്ള പ്രശ്നങ്ങളുടെ തുടക്കമോ എന്നേ ഇനി അറിയാനുള്ളൂ.<br />
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സമ്പത്ത് വ്യവസ്ഥയുടെ അളവുകൾ എങ്ങനെ എന്ന് നമ്മൾ സാധാരണക്കാർ നോക്കേണ്ട കാര്യമില്ല. മൊത്തം രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ വളർച്ച ഏഴര ശതമാനത്തിൽ നിന്ന് അഞ്ചായി അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അഞ്ചര ആയി എന്നൊക്കെ കേട്ടാൽ ഒരു സാധാരണ ഇന്ത്യക്കാരന് ഒന്നും മനസ്സിലായെന്നു വരികയില്ല.<br />
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എന്നാൽ പതിനായിരം രൂപ മുടക്കി മൂന്നു കൊല്ലം മുമ്പ് എടുത്ത മ്യൂച്ചൽ ഫണ്ട് ഇന്ന് വെറും നാലായിരം രൂപയുടെ മാത്രം ആയിരിക്കുന്നു എന്നത് വലിയ ചതി ആയല്ലോ എന്ന് സാധാരണക്കാരൻ കരുതും. ഷെയറിലും മ്യൂച്വൽ ഫണ്ടിലും ഒക്കെയുള്ള വിശ്വാസം തകർന്ന അവസ്ഥയിൽ ആയിരിക്കുന്നു ഇന്ത്യയിലെ സാധാരണക്കാരൻ. ഇതിനൊക്കെ ഉത്തരവാദി ഭരിക്കുന്ന സർക്കാർ അല്ലെന്നു പറഞ്ഞാൽ ആരും വിശ്വസിക്കില്ല.<br />
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ജീവിതകാലം മുഴുവൻ വിദേശത്തും സ്വദേശത്തും കഷ്ടപ്പെട്ട് പണം സ്വരുക്കൂട്ടി സർക്കാരിന്റെ എല്ലാവിധ അനുമതികളും കിട്ടിയതായി അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന റിയൽ എസ്റ്റേറ്റ് കമ്പനിക്കാർ തെളിവു സഹിതം വിശ്വസിപ്പിച്ച ഫ്ലാറ്റ് സമുച്ചയങ്ങളിൽ മുടക്കി വാങ്ങിയ ഫ്ലാറ്റിൽ സമാധാനത്തോടെ മൂന്നാലു കൊല്ലം താമസിച്ചു കഴിഞ്ഞപ്പോൾ സർക്കാരിന്റെ തന്നെ വേറൊരു വിഭാഗക്കാർ ഈ ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ നിയമവിധേയമല്ല എന്നു പറഞ്ഞ് സുപ്രീം കോടതി വരെ വാദിച്ച് ഈ വൻ ഫ്ലാറ്റുകൾ പൊളിക്കാൻ ഉത്തരവ് സമ്പാദിച്ച് പത്തഞ്ഞൂറു കുടുംബങ്ങളെ വഴിയാധാരമാക്കാൻ ഇറങ്ങിത്തിരിച്ചിട്ട് ഇതാ നിയമം എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ് പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിക്കുമ്പോൾ ഈ രാജ്യത്ത് ഇനി സ്വബോധമുള്ള ആരെങ്കിലും ഫ്ലാറ്റു വാങ്ങാൻ പോകുമൊ?<br />
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എന്തൊരു വെള്ളരിക്കാ രാജ്യമാണു നമ്മുടെ എന്നു നോക്കിക്കേ! കാശു മുടക്കിയ ഈ രാജ്യക്കാർ സർക്കാർ സംവിധാനങ്ങളുടെ തൊഴുത്തിൽ കുത്തു കാരണം എപ്പോൾ പെരുവഴിയിൽ ആകും എന്ന് ആർക്കും പ്രവചിക്കാൻ കഴിയില്ല. ഈ രാജ്യത്തെ സുപ്രീം കോടതി തന്നെ പരസ്പര വിരുദ്ധമായ വിധികൾ ഒന്നിനു പുറകേ ഒന്നായി പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കുമ്പോൾ ആർക്ക് എന്തു ചെയ്യാൻ പറ്റും?<br />
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ഇന്ത്യയിലെ സംസ്ഥാന സർക്കാരുകളും, കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാരും, ഇവരുടെയൊക്കെ പലവിധ വിഭാഗങ്ങളും കോടതികളും പരസ്പരം കൊമ്പ് കോർക്കുന്ന ഈ രാജ്യത്ത് എന്തു സർക്കാർ? എന്തു സമ്പത്ത് വ്യവസ്ഥ? തൊമ്മൻ അയയുമ്പോൾ ചാണ്ടി മുറുകും എന്നോരു ചൊല്ല് കേട്ടിട്ടില്ലേ? അതുപോലെയോ അതിലും കഷ്ടത്തിലോ ആയിരിക്കുന്നു ഈ മഹാരാജ്യം ഇപ്പോൾ!<br />
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കുറ്റവും ശിക്ഷയും തമ്മിൽ ഒരു ബന്ധവും ഇല്ലായെന്നു വ്യക്തമാക്കി കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു രാജ്യത്ത് ആരെ വിശ്വസിച്ച് മുതൽ മുടക്കും? അതായത് കുറ്റങ്ങളുടെ നിർവചനങ്ങളും അതിനൊക്കെ കൊടുക്കാവുന്ന ശിക്ഷകളും ഒക്കെ തോന്നിയ പോലെ. പലതിനും പരസ്പര വിരുദ്ധത ഇഷ്ടം പോലെ ആയതിനാൽ ഒരു കോടതി വിധി മറ്റൊരു കോടതിയിൽ തല തിരിയുന്നു. ഇതൊക്കെ നേരെയാക്കാൻ നിയമങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കാനായി തെരെഞ്ഞെടുത്തു വിടുന്ന ജനപ്രതിനിധികൾ പലർക്കും നിയമം പോയിട്ട് സാദാ പത്രം വായിക്കാൻ പോലുമുള്ള അറിവില്ല. പൂച്ചക്ക് ആരു മണി കെട്ടും?<br />
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ഇപ്പോൾ പടച്ചു വിട്ട ഒരു നിയമം കണ്ടില്ലേ? വാഹനം വാങ്ങുന്നതു മൂലം വൻ ശിക്ഷകൾ കിട്ടുന്ന അവസ്ഥയിൽ കാര്യങ്ങൾ എത്തിച്ചാൽ വാഹനങ്ങൾ വാങ്ങുന്നതിൽ നിന്ന് പലരും പിന്മാറുകയില്ലേ? വാഹനങ്ങൾ കൊണ്ടുള്ള ബിസിനസ് പലരും വേണ്ടെന്നു തന്നെ വയ്ക്കില്ലേ? അതി ഭയങ്കര നികുതികളും നിബന്ധനകളും വച്ചിട്ട് വാഹനം ഓടിക്കാൻ നല്ല റോഡുകൾ നിർമ്മിച്ചു പരിപാലിക്കയും കൂടെ ചെയ്യാത്ത സർക്കാരുകളെ വിശ്വസിച്ച് വാഹനങ്ങൾ ഉപയോഗത്തിൽ വരുത്തേണ്ട എന്തെങ്കിലും ബിസിനസ് ചെയ്യാൻ അല്പമെങ്കിലും മൂളയുള്ളവർ തുനിഞ്ഞിറങ്ങുമോ?<br />
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പണമിടപാടുകൾ എല്ലാം സുതാര്യമായ ഡിജിറ്റൽ രീതിയിൽ നടത്താൻ ഒരു കൊല്ലത്തിനകം നടപടി ഉണ്ടാകും എന്നൊക്കെ പറഞ്ഞു രാജ്യത്തെ കറൻസി നോട്ടുകൾ നിരോധിച്ച് പൊതു ജനങ്ങളെ വൻ ദുരിതത്തിൽ ആക്കിയിട്ട് ഡിജിറ്റൽ കാര്യം മിണ്ടാതെ പല നിറങ്ങളിലും സൈസുകളിലും ഒക്കെ കൂടുതൽ കറൻസി അടിച്ചിറക്കി കള്ള നോട്ടു വ്യാപാരം പുതിയ രീതിയിൽ തുടങ്ങാൻ അവസരം ഒരുക്കിയ സർക്കാരിനെ എങ്ങനെ വിശ്വസിക്കും? നോട്ടു നിരോധനം എന്ന കേന്ദ്ര സർക്കാർ തീരുമാനം ഒരുപാട് ഗുണങ്ങൾക്ക് വേണ്ടി ചെയ്തു എങ്കിലും വെളുക്കാൻ തേച്ചത് പാണ്ടായി എന്ന അവസ്ഥയിലേക്കാണു എത്തിച്ചേർന്നത്ഃ<br />
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രാജ്യത്ത് ജോലി സംബന്ധമായൊ ബിസിനസ് സംബന്ധമായൊ മാറിത്താമസിക്കേണ്ടി വന്നാൽ പുതിയ മേൽ വിലാസത്തിനു പ്റൂഫ് ആയി ആ വിലാസത്തിന്റെ തന്നെ പ്രൂഫ് വേണമെന്നു പറയുന്ന സർക്കാർ സംവിധാനത്തിനു ബുദ്ധിയെന്നൊന്ന് ഇല്ലെന്ന് ജനം പിറുപിറുത്ത് പ്രാകിയാൽ അവരെ കുറ്റം പറയാമോ?<br />
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ഒരു സ്ഥലത്തു നിന്നും വേറൊരു സ്ഥലത്തേക്കു മാറിത്താമസിക്കാൻ ഒരു മേൽ വിലാസം എങ്ങനെ പുതിയതായി ഉണ്ടാക്കാൻ പറ്റും എന്നതിനു വിവേകപൂർണ്ണമായ ഒരു നിർദ്ദേശം സ്വന്തം ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർക്ക് കൊടുക്കാൻ പറ്റാത്ത സർക്കാർ എന്തു സർക്കാർ? എല്ലാത്തിനും അടിസ്ഥാനം ആധാർ. അപ്പോൾ ആധാറിനും മറ്റൊരു അടിസ്ഥാനം ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടാൽ ഈ ആധാർ എന്തിന്റെ ആധാർ? ഈ സർക്കാരിനെ ശപിക്കയല്ലാതെ സ്തുതിക്കുമോ?<br />
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രാജ്യത്ത് ആദായ നികുതി കൊടുക്കേണ്ടി വരുന്ന എല്ലാവരും ഇങ്ളീഷിൽ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ വഴി നികുതി റിട്ടേൺ സമർപ്പിക്കണമെന്ന് ഒരു സുപ്രഭാതത്തിൽ ഉത്തരവ് ഇടുന്ന സർക്കാരിനു ഈ രാജ്യത്തെ പറ്റി എന്തു വിവരം? റിട്ടേൺ സമയത്തു കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിൽ അടിച്ചു കയറ്റിയില്ലെന്കിൽ ശിക്ഷയൊ അതി ഭയങ്കരം! അപ്പോൾ പിന്നെ ആദായ നികുതി കൊടുക്കത്തക്ക ആദായം ഇല്ലാതെയിരിക്കുന്നതു ഭാഗ്യം എന്നു സാധാരണ ഇന്ത്യക്കാർ കരുതുന്നതിൽ അവരെ കുറ്റം പറയാൻ പറ്റുമോ? നേരാം ചൊവ്വെ എഴുതാനും വായിക്കാനും അറിയാത്തവരും കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ എന്തു കുന്തമെന്നു അറിയാത്തവരും കോടിക്കണക്കിനു ഉള്ള ഒരു രാജ്യമാണിതെന്നു ഭരണക്കാർക്ക് അറിയില്ല എന്നുണ്ടോ?<br />
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അതു തന്നെ ജി എസ് റ്റി എന്ന ഭരണ പരിഷ്കാരത്തിലും പറ്റിയത്. ഇന്ത്യയിൽ കച്ചവടവും കൊച്ചു കൊച്ചു നിർമ്മാണ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളും ഒക്കെ ചെയ്യുന്നവർക്കേ അതു തന്നെ എന്തു പ്രയാസപ്പെട്ടാണ് ചെയ്യുന്നതെന്നു അറിയുള്ളൂ. അപ്പോഴാണീ പുതിയ ഭരണ പരിഷ്കാരം. മാസാ മാസം വാങ്ങിയതും വിറ്റതും ഒക്കെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ വഴി അടിച്ച് കേറ്റണം. ഒന്നും തെറ്റാൻ പാടില്ല.<br />
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ബിസിനസ് ചെയ്യുമോ അതോ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ ഇരുന്ന് പ്രാകുമോ? പിന്നെ ഈ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടർ നെറ്റ് വർക്ക് ഒരു കുഴപ്പവും ഇല്ലാതെ രാജ്യത്ത് എല്ലായിടത്തും ഒരു പോലെ ആണെന്നാണല്ലോ പുതിയ ഭരണക്കാർ കരുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അവരെ പറഞ്ഞു വിശ്വസിപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്! അപ്പോൾ രായ്ക്കു രാമാനം പഴയതു കളഞ്ഞ് പുതിയതാക്കി. അതിനിപ്പോൾ വരുന്ന കുഴപ്പങ്ങൾ ആരോട് പറയും? പറഞ്ഞാൽ തന്നെ ആർക്കറിയാം അതിനൊരു പരിഹാരം ഉണ്ടാക്കാൻ? ബിസിനസ് തന്നെ വേണ്ടെന്നു വച്ചാൽ അതല്ലേ നല്ലത്?<br />
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അങ്ങനെയങ്ങനെ ജനങ്ങൾ ഫ്ലാറ്റും കാറും സ്ഥലവും മ്യൂച്ച്വൽ ഫണ്ടും ഒക്കെ വാങ്ങുന്നത് നിർത്തി കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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കൈയിൽ ബിസിനസ് ഒക്കെ തുടങ്ങാൻ ഉള്ള പ്രാപ്തി ഉണ്ടെങ്കിലും വഴിയിൽ കിടന്ന വയ്യാവേലി വലിച്ചു തലയിൽ വയ്കേണ്ട എന്നു കരുതുന്നു.<br />
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അപ്പോൾ ജനങ്ങളുടെ ആവശ്യങ്ങൾ ചുരുങ്ങുന്നു. അത്യാവശ്യം അല്ലാത്ത സാധനങ്ങളും സേവനങ്ങളും ജനങ്ങൾക്ക് വേണ്ടാതായി തുടങ്ങുന്നു. അതിനൊക്കെയായി നടത്തിയിരുന്ന ബിസിനസുകൾ കച്ചവടം കുറഞ്ഞ് നഷ്ടക്കച്ചവടം ആയി മാറുന്നു. അവയിലെ ജോലി അവസരങ്ങൾ നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടു തുടങ്ങുന്നു.<br />
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രാജ്യത്ത് നികുതി കൊടുക്കുന്ന ആൾക്കാർ കുറയുന്നു. സർക്കാരിന്റെ വരുമാനം കുറഞ്ഞു വരുന്നു. സർക്കാർ ചെയ്യേണ്ട കാര്യങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യാൻ പണം ഇല്ലാതെ ആവുന്നു.<br />
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ഫലം രാജ്യം സാമ്പത്തിക തളർച്ചയിലേക്കു കൂപ്പു കുത്തുന്നു. അതായത് സർക്കാരിന്റെ ബുദ്ധി മോശമായ തീരുമാനങ്ങൾ രാജ്യത്തെ ഭയങ്കര കുഴപ്പങ്ങളിൽ കൊണ്ട് ചാടിക്കുന്നു. ആദ്യം എല്ലാവർക്കും പ്രശ്നം ഉണ്ടായെന്നു വരില്ല. എന്നാൽ ക്രമേണെ എല്ലാവരെയും അതു ബാധിക്കുന്നു.<br />
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കുറെ വർഷങ്ങൾക്ക് മുമ്പ് അർജെന്റീനയിൽ അതു സംഭവിച്ചു. മറ്റു രാജ്യങ്ങളിലും ഇങ്ങനെയൊക്കെ സംഭവിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്.<br />
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ഞാൻ പലപ്പൊഴും ആലോചിക്കാറുണ്ട്. എന്തു കൊണ്ട് നമുക്ക് പരസ്പരം ബഹുമാനത്തോടെ, സ്നേഹത്തോടെ, കരുതലോടെ ജീവിക്കാൻ സാധിക്കുന്നില്ല?</div>
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എന്തു കൊണ്ട് സ്വന്തം വീടുകളിൽ ഭാര്യയും ഭർത്താവും തമ്മിൽ സ്വരച്ചേർച്ചയില്ല? മാതാപിതാക്കളും കുട്ടികളും തമ്മിൽ പോലും എന്തൊക്കെ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ?</div>
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എന്തൊക്കെ രീതിയിൽ കൊല്ലാൻ പോലും മടിയില്ലാത്ത വൈരാഗ്യം, ശത്രുത?</div>
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ആർക്കും ഒരു ദോഷവും ചെയ്യാതെ ഇരുന്നാലും ചിലപ്പോൾ ചിലർ മെക്കിട്ടു കേറാൻ വന്നെന്നിരിക്കും. എന്താണിങ്ങനെ?</div>
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പാകിസ്താനിലെ മനുഷ്യരും നമ്മെ പോലെ അല്ലേ? ഗൾഫിലും അമേരിക്കയിലും ഒക്കെ ഇന്ത്യക്കാരും പാക്കിസ്താനികളും സൌഹാർദത്തിൽ ആണെങ്കിൽ പോലും പൊതുവായി രണ്ടു കൂട്ടരും ശത്രുക്കളായി കരുതാൻ എന്താണ് കാരണം?</div>
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ഞാനിത്രയും എഴുതിയതു കൊണ്ട് മുൻ പിൻ ആലോചിക്കാതെ എന്നെ ശത്രുവായി പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ച് ഇതു വായിക്കാൻ ഇടയുള്ള സോഷ്യൽ മീഡിയായിൽ എന്നെ ചീത്ത വിളിക്കാൻ എന്റെ കൊച്ചു മക്കൾ പോലും ആകാൻ പ്രായമില്ലാത്ത കുട്ടികൾക്ക് മനസ്സിൽ തോന്നുന്നതും അതിൽ ചിലർ അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്യുന്നതും എന്തു കൊണ്ട്?</div>
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തെരുവു നായ്ക്കളും പന്നികളും മനുഷ്യജീവിതത്തിനു പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന വാർത്തകൾ എന്നും വന്നിട്ടും നമ്മുടെ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർക്കും മന്ത്രിമാർക്കും അതൊരു പ്രശ്നമാണെന്നും അതിനു ഉടൻ പ്രതിവിധി കാണണമെന്നും തോന്നാത്തത് എന്തു കൊണ്ടാണ്?</div>
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ഒരു സർക്കാർ ഓഫീസിൽ ഒരു ചെറിയ കാര്യം സാധിക്കാൻ പോയാൽ അതു അപ്പോൾ തന്നെ നടത്തി കൊടുക്കാൻ പറ്റുമെന്നിരിക്കിലും അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്യാതെ ആ ഓഫീസിൽ പല പ്രാവശ്യം പോയാലേ പറ്റൂ എന്ന രീതിയിൽ എന്തു കൊണ്ട് ആ നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടുകാർ തന്നെ ആയ സർക്കാർ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർ പെരുമാറുന്നു?</div>
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മാലിന്യം പൊതു വഴിയിലും മറ്റും വലിച്ചെറിയരുത് എന്നും അതു നമുക്ക് തന്നെ ദോഷം എന്നും അറിഞ്ഞിട്ടും നമ്മളിൽ പലരും അങ്ങനെ തന്നെ ചെയ്യുന്നതിനു എന്താണു കാരണം?</div>
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അടി മേടിക്കാതെ തന്നെ സാമൂഹ്യനിയമങ്ങൾ പാലിക്കാൻ തക്ക ബുദ്ധിയുണ്ടെങ്കിലും മേടിച്ചാലേ പാലിക്കൂ എന്നവണ്ണം നമ്മളിൽ പലരും പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതിനു എന്തെങ്കിലും കാരണം ഉണ്ടാവുമോ?</div>
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ഒന്നോ രണ്ടോ പേര് വല്ലപ്പോഴും അങ്ങനെ ചില കൊച്ചു നിയമങ്ങൾ തെറ്റിക്കുന്നതു അവരെ തൂക്കി കൊല്ലാനും വെടി വയ്ക്കാനും കൈകാൽ വെട്ടാനും നിയമം ഇല്ലാത്തത് കൊണ്ടെന്നാണെന്ന് എന്തു കൊണ്ട് നമ്മളിൽ പലരും പറഞ്ഞു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു? കാടൻ നിയമങ്ങൾ തന്നെ വേണമെന്ന് എന്തു കൊണ്ട് നമ്മളിൽ ചിലർ ആക്രോശിക്കുന്നു?</div>
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അങ്ങനെ കാടൻ നിയമം ഉള്ളിടത്തു ജീവിക്കാൻ പോയി കാടൻ നിയമത്തിന്റെ പിടിയിൽ പെട്ടു പോയ ബന്ധുക്കൾക്കു വേണ്ടി പിന്നെ കരയുന്നതും നമ്മൾ തന്നേ എന്നു ഓർക്കാത്തതു എന്തു കൊണ്ട്? അങ്ങനെ ചില നിയമ വ്യവസ്ഥകൾ കൊണ്ട് പണ്ട് നമ്മൾ കരഞ്ഞിട്ടുണ്ട് എന്ന് എന്തേ നമ്മൾ പലരും ഓർക്കുന്നില്ല?</div>
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നമ്മുടെ മുമ്പിൽ വോട്ടിനു കെഞ്ചി ജയിച്ചു പോയ നമ്മുടെ തന്നേ പ്രതിനിധികൾ അതു കഴിഞ്ഞു നമുക്ക് തന്നെ പാരയാകുന്ന നിയമങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടാക്കി നമ്മുടെ ജീവിതം തന്നേ പ്രശ്നത്തിൽ ആക്കാൻ വെമ്പുന്നത് എന്ത് കൊണ്ടെന്നു എന്നെങ്കിലും ആലോചിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടാവുമോ?</div>
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നാട്ടിനു ഗുണമുള്ള എല്ലാത്തിനും ഉടക്കുണ്ടാക്കി കാലതാമസം വരുത്താൻ സർക്കാർ ഓഫീസുകളിലും മറ്റും ഉദ്യോഗത്തിലും ഭരണത്തിലും ഇരിക്കാൻ അവസരം കിട്ടിയ നമ്മളുടെ തന്നെ നാട്ടുകാരും വീട്ടുകാരും ആയ ചിലർ എന്തു കൊണ്ട് വ്യഗ്രത കാട്ടുന്നു?</div>
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പള്ളിയെയും അമ്പലത്തെയും എന്തിനു ദൈവത്തെ തന്നെയും പേടിയില്ലാത്ത നമ്മളിൽ പലരും അതിന്റെയൊക്കെ അനാവശ്യകാര്യങ്ങൾക്ക് പോലും പണം കൈയയച്ച് കൊടുക്കയും നിത്യവിർത്തിക്ക് പണിപ്പെടുന്ന നമ്മുടെ തന്നെ ആ നാട്ടുകാരനോട് ഒരു രൂപയ്ക് പോലും വിലയും കൂലിയും പേശി കുറച്ച് കിട്ടിയതിൽ സന്തോഷിക്കയും ചെയ്യുന്നതിലെ ഔചിത്യം എന്തെന്നു എന്നെങ്കിലും ആലോചിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടോ? </div>
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ആട് പട്ടിയെന്ന് പലരും പറഞ്ഞാൽ നമ്മളിൽ പലരും അതു സമ്മതിക്കാനുള്ള മനസ്ഥിതിയിൽ ആകും എന്നതു കൊണ്ടല്ലേ നമ്മളിൽ തന്നെയുള്ള ചില വിദ്വാന്മാർ രാഷ്ട്രീയ പ്രസംഗം ചെയ്തു നമ്മളെ അവരുടെ രീതിയിൽ ചിന്തിക്കാൻ മെരുക്കി എടുക്കുന്നത്?</div>
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അപ്പോൾ നമ്മുടെ സാധാരണ ബുദ്ധി പലപ്പോഴും പ്രവർത്തിക്കാത്തത് എന്തു കൊണ്ടാണെന്ന് എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും ആലോചിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടോ?</div>
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എന്താണ് ശരി എന്താണു തെറ്റ് എന്ന് പലപ്പോഴും നമ്മളിൽ പലർക്കും അറിയാൻ പറ്റുന്നില്ല എന്ന് നമുക്ക് തന്നെ തോന്നാറില്ലേ?</div>
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നമ്മൾ എല്ലാം ശരിയായി ചിന്തിക്കയും പ്രവർത്തിക്കയും ചെയ്തിരുന്നെങ്കിൽ നമ്മുടെ രാജ്യം, നമ്മുടെ നാട് സ്വർഗ്ഗ തുല്യം ആയേനെ എന്ന് എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും മനസ്സിൽ തോന്നിയിട്ടില്ലേ?</div>
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നമ്മൾ ശരിയായി എന്നു കരുതുമ്പോൾ നമ്മുടെ കൂടുള്ളവർ അതിനു നേർ വിപരീതം ആകുന്ന വിരോധാഭാസം കണ്ട് ഉള്ളിൽ കരയുകയൊ ദേഷ്യം വരുകയൊ ഒക്കെ എത്ര പ്രാവശ്യം അനുഭവിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു! </div>
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എന്തു കൊണ്ട്, എന്തു കൊണ്ട് ഇങ്ങനെ?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jesus Christ, undoubtedly was the man who influenced the presently known human history to the highest level. He is also the living divine son of the Almighty God who is believed to be the sole savior of human kind by the billions of Christians now. Jesus is the central theme of the Holy Bible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jesus or Isa Nabi is also the most venerated prophet of Islam whose life story is well narrated in the Holy Quran. The Holy Quran asserts that Jesus in reality was a non human messenger of God who was born as a human in a very miraculous manner and gives more importance to his miraculous powers than his life as a powerless human being. The Quran strongly refutes Christian story of Jesus' death on the cross as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind and also the claim that Jesus is the only begotten son of the Almighty God. Muslims also strongly refute the Christian veneration of Jesus Christ as the second member of the Holy Trinity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are many other narrations that tell about this holy man of Jerusalem who was born in a manger, lived a short life of 33 years and crucified by the then Roman government for blasphemy as accused by religious elders of his own Hebrew community, some 2000 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is the divine savior and God for his followers. There are many who refute his divinity. But all of them agree to one thing that he was indeed a simple, sinless human being.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the written narrations in the Bible, the Quran and all other books that human authors of various times had written contain only short descriptions. What Jesus did during his childhood and adulthood are pretty unknown and unwritten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who was Jesus in reality? Was he divine? Was he an incarnation of God's divine son on earth? Was he a sacrificial lamb for pacifying an angry God? Was he just an angel who took the human form? Was he a historical personality or were all those stories about him just myths?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For nearly two thousand years we had no answers to all these questions other than what was narrated in the religious holy books of the Christians and the Muslims. Of course we also had many books and writing by several saints, religious scholars and historians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But none of those were enough to answer the curiosity of a probing human mind. Several like me secretly wished to know more and perhaps more authentically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And thankfully our wish came fulfilled half a century ago when the most marvelous book containing divinely revealed truths got published. I am thankfully indebted to God for making me find that book and read it. And it is the Urantia Book, my precious book of life guidance. And there now exist a minuscule group of curious fans of this book of truth revelation who spend some time reading, studying and discussing the various aspects of the revealed truths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While we enjoy the benefits of our newly found divinely revealed truths, we also realize the hard truth that the majority of our human brothers and sisters do not yet have come to the privilege of knowing what we have known. We also realize the bitter truth that this majority in this world as on today do not have either the facility to get to know or the broad-mindedness and intellectual capacity to understand the vast revealed knowledge that the Urantia Book contains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet all of us, the fascinated and curious students and readers of the Urantia Book across the world agree to one thing- that it is the fourth part of the Urantia Book covering 'the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ' is undoubtedly the best part for any one to start exploring the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This new book now published as 'the Untold Story of Jesus' is as a result of that realization by a few dedicated team of the Urantia Book Readers' Fellowship. It is no doubt the fourth part of the Urantia Book. But what is new in this new book is a much simpler and appealing introduction and beautiful colored illustrations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am happy to mention here that this new publication is the effort and hard work of my friends-Mo Siegel, Mary Jo Garascia and Jim from the Urantia Book Reader community who are scholars of the book. This new book is essentially part-iv of the Urantia Book with much illustration and a more appealing print presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The grace of the narration as covered in this book is something one should read and experience. The reader will no doubt feel the presence of Jesus Christ and that is something to be experienced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a book that should be in the home library for all those book lovers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book can be ordered online in India and in other countries through Amazon. Those in India who wish to to that may click the book image on the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In case you do not wish to purchase this book, but would like to read the same content from the Urantia Book itself may </span><a href="https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/titles-of-the-papers" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><b>click here</b> </a><span style="font-size: large;">to read the Urantia Book Online! Please scroll down the page that opens up and go to the fourth part contents of the book and click open the hyperlinked chapter titles to read about Jesus-the untold story that is more elaborate than that is contained in the Bible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'The Untold Story of Jesus' is a book I would recommend to my blog readers in case they love reading books and have good command in English language. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In case you love to read an adapted version of the life and teachings of Jesus based on the Urantia Book, written by a learned Urantia Book enthusiast, I would suggest the following book as well:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Thoma_Syrian_Church" target="_blank"><b>Marthoma Christians of Kerala</b></a> are a break away group linked to the Eastern Orthodox Churches of India. </span><span style="font-size: large;">(For more read: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India#Eastern_Orthodoxy_in_India" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Christianity in India</a><span style="font-size: large;"> )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This separation and establishment of an independent church denomination named Mar Thoma Syrian Christian Church of Malabar (<i>Malankara Marthoma Nasrani Sabha</i> in Malayalam) happened nearly 200 years ago. How and why of that are not important to be discussed here. (More official information can be had from the official <a href="http://marthoma.in/" target="_blank"><b>website of the Marthoma Church</b></a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before and during the period of independence of India way back in 1947, the Marthoma families used to be small time farmers, traders or farm workers or those from the lower income groups who toiled hard for a living. As in any community, it also had some rich families as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christians in the erstwhile local kingdoms of south-west India now forming the Kerala state of India were a humble prayerful lot in general during those times. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Besides being ambitious and adventurous they gave much</span><span style="font-size: large;"> importance in gaining literacy and education. Perhaps they got that inclination due to the efforts of the foreign Christian missionaries of pre-independence era.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Opportunities for a decent work or profession used to be rare especially in Kerala. However, several reasonably educated youngsters from Kerala Christian families were adventurous enough to try their fortunes in foreign countries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the underdeveloped democracy and its incompetent governance, the Indian economy and its currency have been consistently weak as compared to many of the foreign nations where the Keralites sought employment. This helped such Keralites to bring foreign currency savings to India and gain several times more cash in India as compared to their country cousins doing similar or even superior jobs and professions back in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike in other states of India, it had been the Kerala Christians who tried their lucks to gain valuable dollars in the beginning. This helped several Kerala Christian families to gain affluence within a comparatively short time span of three four decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Soon Kerala landscape saw dramatic changes in its landscape. The state witnessed continuous growth of mansion like houses in all forms of architecture throughout its length and breadth. Prices of land useful for construction of houses or commercial buildings shot up exorbitantly. As most of the working class sought jobs and vocations abroad, farm workers declined and agriculture became a non-lucrative profession in the state. As a result, farm land costs fell drastically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">India government with little knowledge for efficient management of economy added further help for migration of working class in large numbers from India to other countries. Only unfortunate people remained in India to work locally. As their Indian rupee incomes stood much lower than their foreign employed cousins, they envied the latter. Passion for quick money and material glories began to spread and corruption in all forms became all pervading in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The passion for quick wealth engulfed the Kerala Christians as a whole and Marthoma Christians are no exception. The Christian clergy too became irrevocably affected by the evils of richness!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As it stands today, several Christian churches-its people, its clergy and bishops are shamefully involved in various kinds of scandals and crimes. There are nuns, priests and bishops involved in sexual </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">immorality, sex related crimes including murder, money laundering, group fights and litigation for control of church properties and acts of shameless manipulations for gaining lucrative positions in the church organizations. Church authorities demanding bribes for employment in church controlled institutions and for admissions in their educational institutions is nothing new now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hospitals bearing Christian names no more feel any remorse while they charge heavily and unjustifiably from hapless patients who go there for treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hand work of evil is no more any secret in the Christian churches and their institutions. If social media responses are any indication there exists a good majority of common people who are too arrogant and ruthlessly unchristian in their acts and attitudes. They are simply egoistic, vengeful and willing to take up violence or other evil ways to get their side or opinion win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christian clergy in Kerala are no more those simple, prayerful, pious and humble leaders. Priesthood has become a means of social status, gaining quick money and importance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clergy from the Marthoma church are no more reluctant to show off their affluence. Many of them build palatial houses and buy exotic cars and send their children to foreign destinations for higher education. Often the common people wonder about their sources of income as their officially known incomes cannot sustain such life style that they now have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A good majority of Marthoma churches in Kerala now do not require much infrastructure as most of them have enough of that in place. Yet several churches are in the process of re-building old church buildings by spending millions. They keep asking the members for more and more donations even while their normal incomes are more than enough to sustain their normal activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If history is any indication, wealth and political power had done much tribulations to Christian church members at times they consistently deviated from the principles of love, goodness and God centered human fellowship. While they enjoy the fruits of affluence and good life, they forget Christ and his teachings. Evil anti-Christ becomes their god during those times who leads them cleverly to doom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They do not try to do any good to their own needy fellow members. Church authorities never feel any remorse or shame in demanding unjustified fees and charges for conducting marriages, funeral services for the dead etc. They do not feel it wise and good to reduce the fees of their educational institutions or hospitals even to their own deserving members even when such a gesture is financially viable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christians should have been a broadminded community. If so, they can do much, at least for themselves because collective true fellowship is much more powerful and effective than individual efforts. They could have been light bearers to the rest of the peoples and communities. Unfortunately they are now deviating from their true missions and responsibilities. Are they becoming a community for getting ridiculed by others? It is time to think!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cash rich local church managements can think of planning and implementing health insurance and accident insurance coverage for its members and deserving non members from other communities as well instead of wasting money in demolishing and re-building buildings and structures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this blog article, I would like to provide some interesting similarities and differences between the Bible and the Urantia Book. The Urantia Book does not essentially contradict the Bible; in fact it actually shares several passages, stories and events from the Bible. And I do believe that the authors of the Urantia Book have done that purposefully. For curious and doubtful readers like me who happen to be born and live in the modern world of science, the Urantia Book's revelations of truths serve as a boon to understand the purpose of life as planned by the Universal Creator God in a much better and authentic manner than presented in the Bible. No doubt, the Bible has some of the most inspiring truths mankind has been having for centuries. But at the same time it also has events and passages that might be confusing to the probing mind. It is too interesting and refreshing to understand the Bible with the help of the revealed knowledge given in the Urantia Book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those who are open minded and are not scared to come out of their religion infused biases and are keen to read and widen their knowledge horizon, I would recommend they make use of the <a href="http://www.urantiabook.org/urantiabook/paramony/urantia_book_refs_index.html" target="_blank"><b>detailed comparative study tool for finding out what the Bible has and what the Urantia Book tells</b></a> that my friends in the Urantia Book Fellowship has worked out and provided in their website. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bible is believed to be written by Leaders, Kings, prophets, saints and apostles who wrote the various books of the bible at various times spanning several centuries inspired by wisdom given to them by God's spirit in ancient Hebrew, Latin and Greek languages. The latest book in the Bible was written some 1900 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book is a collection of a Foreword followed by 192 topical papers authored by various orders of invisible celestial beings during AD 1910-1935 period who gave the original documents in pencil written form in modern English language to a group of high caliber gentlemen and ladies in a manner never before adopted in the history of mankind, to be published as a book. The book contains the common names of the celestial authors. The book got typed, printed and published with the help of this group of eminent people chosen for the purpose by the celestial beings first time in the USA in 1955. The original pencil written manuscripts got mysteriously disappeared and the mysterious contact the celestial beings had established with the humans ended after the book got published.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The concept of God in the Bible is relatively simple. In the Old testament bible, God is an invisible personality constantly in communication with some chosen people or prophets either directly or through angels. The concept later on progresses to God, the Father of all and the creator of earth and the heavens and to the concept of Trinity, comprising of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is depicted as the Son who was incarnated as a human being to be sacrificed for the salvation of human race from their sins. The biblical accounts do not fall in line with modern scientific findings, directly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book is almost double the size of the Bible and it gives elaborate details about the Universal Father God who is depicted as the First Source and Center of everything and the process in which the First Source distributed and delegated to form the original trinity and the pantheon of divine and celestial beings who keep creating and maintaining the universes comprising of the invisible spiritual energy realms and the visible realms of time and space in accordance with the non changing laws of the Father God. The Urantia Book depicts Jesus Christ as a Creator Son of God who is the Sovereign ruler of a universe space comprising of 10 million worlds similar to earth where human like beings live. The Urantia Book gives elaborate details of the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ in its fourth part when this universe sovereign lived on earth bestowed as a human being. The book provides too many information hitherto unknown to human beings and the information so provided is in conformity with modern science or even more advanced. There are very little or no contradictions anywhere in the content of the book.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book tells that God is love and that God is not a vengeful or angry being. In eternity there was God and nothing else. All living and non living things and beings got into being by from and by the act of God who is eternal and infinite. Humans cannot conceive the Infinite God because of our finite limitations and no human ever can define God and hence it is a useless exercise. However, humans are also sons of God in the sense that they are created as intelligent living beings who have some capability to get attracted to God which other living beings like plants and animals do not have. God is the source of energy, life intelligence, mind and personality and hence it is the duty of all intelligent human beings to love and worship God for their life and existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book tells us who in reality are the personalities now known to human beings in the names of Lucifer and Satan and explains that they are actually different personalities. They were lower level spiritual rulers ruling those parts of the visible universe comprising of our earth and a few other similar material worlds, subordinate to the universe Sovereign who bestowed on earth some 2000 years ago as Jesus Christ. The Urantia Book identifies another of their subordinate ruler named Caligastia who has been the celestial ruler of earth for thousands of years who joined Lucifer and Satan in deviating or rebelling against the Universal divine administration thereby causing much distress of earth and its people. Ever since the bestowal of Jesus Christ on earth some 2000 years ago, Caligastia's power to rule earth as its celestial ruler has been curtailed but he is not yet fully isolated from doing his nefarious activities on earth in an invisible manner. The problems what people of earth face are all due to the rebellion of its rulers against the divine universe administration. The book informs us that these erring celestial rulers would be quarantined for ever in the near future completely. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to the Bible, Adam and Eve are the first humans who were created directly by God in the Garden of Aden. If one goes literally, Adam and Eve were created some 6000 years ago.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to the Urantia Book, humans got created on earth by the process of controlled evolution. The first humans were a pair of male and female twins who were born from parents of a kind of tree dwelling ape family some 1000,000 years ago in the north west region of India. Controlled evolution is an evolutionary process that is under periodic manipulation by intelligent celestial supervision and control according to the laws of universe administration of God. The book gives elaborate details from the time of creation of visible universe to the solar system to earth by the process of controlled evolution. The book tells us that Adam and Eve too existed and lived on earth some 38000 years ago and the details of their life and purpose.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bible gives the progress of religious practices that form the basis of the Abramic religions now known as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A superior priestly king named Melchizedek is briefly told as the person who taught Abraham. Not much information about Melchizedek is available in the Bible.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book tells in detail about who actually was Melchizedek and his life and purpose on earth. It also tells us that all major religions including Hinduism, Confusionism, Buddhism and the Abramic religions all had received information about God and the universe from the teachings of Melchizedek some 5000 years ago. These teachings got corrupted due to human interpretations and fantasies over the years. Melchizedek is told as a special kind of celestial being who is capable of assuming material body similar to humans for the purpose of teaching evolving human beings. Melchizedeks are told as emergency sons of God who are sent to materials worlds like earth in case of emergency situations. The Urantia Book tells the essence of all major religions of earth up to Sikhism. It also tells what is good and what kind of errors in all these religions.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The purpose of life and creation is not very clear in the Bible.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it is very clear in the Urantia Book. It tells that every thing God has done from eternity to the future is with some divine purpose. There exists divine beings, celestial beings and material beings all created for various purposes in various types and times and capacities. All intelligent beings are provided with free will. However, those intelligent beings that are not divine and perfect are prone to make errors and face problems due to their errors. However, errors give opportunities for experiences and chances for corrections making those beings to improve to perfection by continuous experience. Errors are not sins, but continuous and willful denial or resistance to God's will and purpose is sin that make such a being going out of God's providence and permanent deprivation of sustenance of life. The Urantia Book says that human death on earth is not an end of that person and his life by itself as human life on earth is a temporary phase for human beings who are determined for continued service in the universe. But humans who have willfully rejected God's will might be determined from continuing their life further just as animals and plants.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The purpose of all living beings is to be of service and good to other living beings. The purpose of all intelligent living beings is to do good service and help to others in accordance with the laws of God and strive to make the entire universe a better place to live and progress and achieve perfection just as the Father God.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lower level intelligent beings rise to higher levels with time while higher level intelligent beings provide them the help to improve and progress. All intelligent beings who acquire the requisite capability to be in the presence of the Infinite Father God would achieve that goal even though it might take a very long time. The endless time of life that a human being might get is a time of everlasting adventure and experience in the vast universe.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The four gospels, Matthew, Luke, Mark and John, in the New Testament Bible depicts the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in the manner as perceived by these four men. The development of Christianity and a religion and its guiding doctrines are given in the other books of New Testament Bible. Bible depicts Jesus as the only begotten son of God who was born as a human being to die as a sinless sacrifice for redeeming all humans from the original sin of Adam and Eve.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ forms the last (fourth) part of the Urantia Book comprising of 62 papers depicting the birth, life, teaching mission, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ in such an elaborate sequence hitherto never seen in the human history. It contains most of the incidences covered in the Bible but in much detail. Jesus' teachings and preaching are given in much elaboration told as modified for the comprehension of modern man. The dates of occurrence have been modified to modern calendar a task which is humanly impossible.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Jesus of Urantia Book is a divine personality told a Creator son of God. Creator sons of God are responsible for the creation of material universe comprising of stars, galaxies and planets and life in inhabitable planets. The whole of the present day material universe is derived from pre-existing energy and is developed in sequence by universe parts known as local universes. The Creator sons are the divine group heads who create the local universes. There are millions of planets where intelligent material life forms get created. Earth is part of one such local universe whose creator son is the one who was born on earth as a human being in the name Jesus Christ and his bestowal on earth was not for getting crucifixed for the sins of human beings. Because God the Father is not a vengeful personality at all. Jesus' birth on earth was part of a universe law which makes it mandatory for all rulers to have some experience of the life of their subjects before they assume the rulership. Jesus became just as a human being, a being whom he himself created, to experience the lowly life of a human and to know whether his creature is capable of living in accordance with the laws of the universe. Jesus was killed by the ignorant fellow beings as he was not willing to make compromises in accordance with their ignorant ways. Jesus completed his earth mission and returned to assume his responsibilities as the local universe ruler gaining much experience in living as a human being in an under developed material world. While he lived he tried to teach his fellow beings much truths about God the Universe Father as it is digestible to his lowly mortal associates.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Creator Son who is the ruler of our universe is a patient and loving father like personality just like his father, the Universal Father. He is too patient to tolerate the inequities of his celestial and material children. Hence, Caligastia and his associates are getting perceivably more time to continue with their rebellious activities causing confusions in the minds of many human beings. Human beings who are also evil are apparently tolerated due to the same reason.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bible teaches that human beings are inherently sinful and those who believe in Jesus Christ and who repents and seek salvation through Jesus Christ are saved for everlasting life. Their souls are saved to live for ever in heaven in the presence of God, Jesus, angels and the saints. Souls of those who are sinful and reject the salvation program of God go to hell after their death, to be tormented in everlasting fire together with the evil angels like Satan. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book tells that all human beings irrespective of their religious affiliations are sons and daughters of the Universal Father God who has given them material life, personality, free will intelligence and a spiritual God's fragment that resides within them that gives them the feeble guidance to know what is good and what is bad. Apart from this there are invisible personalities of the God's universal administration that keep evaluating an individual during the course of his or her material life on earth. Those who desire to do God's will as their free will choice irrespective of occasional errors get opportunities to live even after death in progressively improving non-material forms while their personalities are retained intact. They eventually transform themselves as powerful and experienced ascending sons of God who are given various kinds of responsibilities in the universe administration. While they transform they undergo several phases of life in body forms suitable for life in those living spheres. During this everlasting life progress, such personalities will get opportunities to witness life in the innumerable worlds in the universe. Once they commence the life after material death on earth their willful rejection to do God's will might cause them to be detained at a phase without further progress and in such an unfortunate event their future life may be classified as a prison life for ever. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Those on earth or similar material worlds who consistently do evil and reject all opportunities for living a life in accordance with the desire of God will cease to exist as personalities after material death. Their purpose of life on earth is regarded as limited just like living beings like plants and animals. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book informs us that trials and tribulations of life are essentially opportunities for gaining valuable experiences and loving our invisible father God for what he is and seeking to be at his service to do good for others who too are children of God like us.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The process of creation as depicted in the Bible appears as magical as the information is limited.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to the Urantia Book, the process of creation is much more complex and elaborate and the Book reveals that nothing is ever magical in the universe and everything happens on account of collective or individual efforts in accordance with universal laws. There exists a vast host of personalities who are delegated with various kinds of powers and skills to execute various kinds of works and take various kinds of decisions. All powers and energies get derived from one source that is the Universal Father God. However, the Universal Father God does not interfere in the areas where he has delegated powers.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bible has several inconsistencies with modern science.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, the information given in the Urantia Book is consistent with modern science where ever science has proven it beyond doubt and perhaps superior to present day scientific thoughts where ever science has yet to make the final postulates established beyond doubts.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bible is a sacred book for its adherents.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Urantia Book though has originated mysteriously from celestial authors, does not advocate itself as some thing sacred or holy but only as a book containing revealed information for humans to take wise decisions after knowing facts they might like to know and to live a well informed life that may help those who are inclined to know truths to live a life without much anxieties and worries. The authors of the Urantia Book do not advocate the creation of any additional religion or religious practices on account of this book but advise human beings of earth to have an introspection of their respective religious beliefs and God worship so as they live according to the will of God as true children of God. Desire to do loving service to others, desire to be intelligent, creative and wise, desire to honestly seek truth, desire to discard anxiety, anger and vengeance and desire to be sympathetic to ignorant fellow beings in error and acknowledging the providence of God always are told as some of the characteristics of those who wish to live in accordance with the will of God. The Urantia Book does not support outward exhibitionism of spirituality or religious practices.</span><br>
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<b>The Awesome History of the Urantia Book</b><br />
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ദി ഉറാൻഷ്യ ബുക്ക് (The Urantia Book) വാസ്തവത്തിൽ ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലെ ഒരു മഹാ അത്ഭുതം എന്നു അതു വായിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളവർ നിസംശയം സമ്മതിക്കും. എന്നാൽ അതിനെപ്പറ്റി കേട്ടിട്ടുള്ള മനുഷ്യർ വളരെ കുറവാണ് എന്നത് മറ്റൊരു കാര്യം.<br />
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ആയിരത്തി തൊള്ളായിരത്തി അമ്പത്തഞ്ചിൽ അമേരിക്കയിൽ ഇംഗ്ലീഷിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഈ പുസ്തകം മലയാളത്തിൽ ഇതു വരെ വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടിട്ടില്ല. 2200-ൽ പരം പേജുകൾ ഉള്ള ഈ ബൃഹത്ത് ഗ്രന്ഥം ഭാഷാപരമായി ഔന്നത്യം ഉള്ളതും ഇതുവരെ കേട്ടിട്ടില്ലാത്ത അറിവുകൾ നൽകുന്നതും ആണ്. ആയതിനാൽ ഈ പുസ്തകം മറ്റു ഭാഷകളിലേക്ക് വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുക അത്ര എളുപ്പമുള്ള കാര്യമല്ല.<br />
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ഈ പുസ്തകത്തെ മലയാളികൾക്കും ഇന്ത്യക്കാർക്കും പരിചയപ്പെടുത്താൻ എന്നാൽ ആവുന്നത് ഞാൻ ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു, അതിൽ വല്യ പ്രയോജനം ഒന്നും കാണുന്നില്ല എങ്കിൽ കൂടി.<br />
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അതിനായി ഇതിനു മുമ്പ് മലയാളത്തിൽ ഈ സൈറ്റിൽ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച ചില ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ ലിങ്ക് താഴെ കൊടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നു. അതിൽ ക്ളിക് ചെയ്താൽ ആ ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വായിച്ച് ഈ പുസ്തകത്തെപ്പറ്റി ഒരു ഏകദേശ ധാരണ കിട്ടും.<br />
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കൂടുതൽ അറിയാൻ ഈ സൈറ്റിന്റെ പേജിൽ വലത്തു വശത്തുള്ള മൂന്നു നീല വൃത്തങ്ങളുടെ ചിത്രത്തിൽ ക്ലിക് ചെയ്താൽ മതി. ഈ വൻ പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ ഇംഗ്ളീഷിൽ ഉള്ള മൂല കൃതി ഓൺ ലൈനിൽ വായിക്കാനുള്ള ലിങ്കും ഇവിടെ ലഭിക്കും.</div>
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ഞാൻ ഭൂമിപുസ്തകം എന്ന് മലയാളത്തിൽ വിളിക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്ന ഉറാൻഷ്യ ബുക്കിന്റെ ഉള്ളടക്കം മനുഷ്യരാൽ രചിക്കപ്പെട്ടതല്ല എന്ന് ആ പുസ്തകം തന്നെ സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു. അതു വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ ആദ്യം പ്രയാസം തോന്നും എന്നത് മനുഷ്യ സഹജം. എന്നാൽ അതു വായിച്ചു മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ തുടങ്ങുന്നതോടെ ആ സംശയം അത്ഭുതത്തിനു വഴി മാറാനാണു സാദ്ധ്യത. ബൌദ്ധികമായും ഭാഷാപരമായും ഔന്നത്യം ഉള്ളവർക്കേ ഇതു വായിച്ചു മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ പറ്റൂ എന്നതു മറ്റൊരു സംഗതി.</div>
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എന്നാൽ ശ്രേഷ്ഠമായതിനെ തള്ളാനും മ്ളേഛമായതിനെ ആശ്ളേഷിക്കാനും സാധാരണ മനുഷ്യൻ കൂടുതൽ അഭിവാഞ്ചിക്കുന്നതിനാൽ ഇന്നത്തെ നിലയിൽ ഒട്ടു മിക്ക മനുഷ്യരും ഈ പുസ്തകം വായിക്കാൻ താല്പെര്യം കാണിക്കണമെന്നില്ല.</div>
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ഭൂമിപുസ്തക വെളിപ്പെടുത്തലുകൾ അമൂല്യം തന്നെ. എന്നാൽ ഈ വിലപ്പെട്ട വിവരങ്ങൾ ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിൽ എങ്ങനെ ഈ ഭൂമിയിൽ നൽകപ്പെട്ടു എന്നതിനെപ്പറ്റി മനുഷ്യർ വേവലാതിപ്പെടേണ്ട കാര്യം ഇല്ല എന്നാണൂ അതിന്റെ അമർത്ത്യ രചയിതാക്കൾ നമ്മോട് പറയുന്നത്.</div>
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അങ്ങനെയുള്ള ചില വ്യക്തികളുടെ പരിശ്രമ ഫലമായി ഈ അമൂല്യ പുസ്തകം എങ്ങനെ നമുക്ക് കിട്ടി എന്ന ചരിത്രം ഇപ്പോൾ അറിവായിട്ടുണ്ട്.<br />
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അത് ചുരുക്കത്തിൽ ഇവിടെ പറയാം.<br />
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ആയിരത്തി തൊള്ളായിരത്തി പത്തുകളിൽ ഡോ.വില്യം സാഡലർ (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sadler" target="_blank">Dr.William S.Sadler</a>) എന്നൊരു പ്രഗൽഭനായ ഡോക്ടർ അമേരിക്കയിൽ ചിക്കാഗൊ എന്ന പട്ടണത്തിൽ തന്റെ ഭാര്യ ഡോ. ലീനാ സാഡലറും ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരു അപാർട്ട്മെന്റിൽ താമസിച്ച് ജോലി നോക്കിയിരുന്നു. രണ്ടുപേരും അക്കാലത്തെ അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന യുവ ഡോക്ടേർസ് ആയിരുന്നു. ഡോ. വില്യം സൈക്യാട്രിയിലും ഡോ.ലീന ഗൈനക്കോളജിയിലും പ്രാഗൽഭ്യം തെളിയിച്ചിരുന്നു അപ്പോൾ.<br />
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ഡോ. വില്യം പള്ളിയിൽ പോകുമായിരുന്നെങ്കിലും സമൂഹത്തിലെ യുക്തിഹീനമായ കാര്യങ്ങളെ വിമർശിക്കുന്നതിൽ മുമ്പിൽ ആയിരുന്നു. അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mind-at-Mischief-William-Sadler/dp/B0013WP860" target="_blank">The Mind in Mischief</a> എന്ന പുസ്തകം അക്കാലത്ത് യുക്തിവാദികൾക്ക് ഒരു പഠന സഹായി തന്നെ ആയിരുന്നു. ആത്മീയതയിലും അല്ലാതെയും ധാരാളമായി കണ്ടുവന്ന മനസ്സിന്റെ താളപ്പിഴകളെ ആ പുസ്തകത്തിൽ അദ്ദേഹം വിവരിച്ചിരുന്നു.<br />
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അങ്ങനെയിരിക്കെ ഒരിക്കൽ ഒരു രാത്രിയിൽ ഈ ഡോക്ടർ ദമ്പതികളുടെ വാതിലിൽ ഒരു അയൽവാസി സ്തീ മുട്ടി വിളിച്ചു. അവർക്ക് അടിയന്തിരമായി ഡോക്ടർമാരുടെ സഹായം ആവശ്യം ആയിരുന്നു. പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും ഒരു മനോരോഗ വിദഗ്ധന്റെ!<br />
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അവരുടെ ഭർത്താവ് ഒരു ബിസിനസ് കാരൻ ആയിരുന്നു. പൂർണ്ണ ആരോഗ്യവാൻ. എന്നാൽ അടുത്തയിടെയായി അദ്ദേഹത്തിനു രാത്രിയിൽ ഉറക്കത്തിൽ ഒരു പ്രശ്നം. ഉറക്കത്തിൽ അയാൾ തിരിമറി കൊള്ളുകയും ഉരുളുകയും ഒക്കെ ചെയ്യുന്നു. വിളിച്ചാൽ ഉണരുന്നില്ല. എന്നാൽ നേരം വെളുത്തു കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ ഒന്നും സംഭവിക്കാത്ത മട്ടിൽ അയാൾ തന്റെ ജോലിക്കും പോകുന്നു. ഡോക്ടറെ കാണാമെന്ന് ഭാര്യ പറഞ്ഞത് കേൾക്കുന്നുമില്ല. അതുകൊണ്ട് രാത്രിയിൽ അയാൾ ഇങ്ങനെ കാണിക്കുന്ന സമയം അത് അയൽവാസിയായ മനോരോഗ വിദഗ്ധനെ കാണിച്ചു ഉപദേശം തേടാമെന്ന് അയാളുടെ ഭാര്യ കരുതി.<br />
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ഡോക്ടർ ദമ്പതികൾ ആ സ്തീയുടെ കൂടെ ആ രാത്രിയിൽ അവരുടെ വീട്ടിൽ അവരുടെ പ്രശ്നക്കാരൻ ഭർത്താവിനെ കാണാൻ പോയി.<br />
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അവിടെ ചെന്നപ്പോൾ സംഭവം ശരിയാണ്. അയാൾ കിടന്നു ഞെരിപിളി കൊള്ളുകയാണ്. എന്നാൽ അയാൾ നല്ല ഉറക്കത്തിലും. ഡോ.സാഡലർ അയാളെ ഉണർത്താൻ അറിയാവുന്ന വിദ്യകൾ ഒക്കെ പ്രയോഗിച്ചു. എന്നാൽ യാതൊരു പ്രയോജനവും ഉണ്ടായില്ല. ഈ മനുഷ്യൻ അറിഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട് തന്നെ വിഡ്ഡിയാക്കുകയാണോ എന്നും ഡോക്ടർക്ക് സംശയം തോന്നി.<br />
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അങ്ങനെ നിൽക്കുമ്പോൾ എവിടെനിന്നോ പോലെ ഒരു ശബ്ദം എല്ലാവരും കേട്ടു. രോഗി പറയും പോലെ അവർക്ക് തോന്നിഃ<br />
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" ഡോക്ടറെ ഞാൻ പ്രതീക്ഷിച്ചിരിക്കയായിരുന്നു. വന്നതിൽ സന്തോഷം."<br />
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സാഡലർക്ക് ശരിക്കും അപ്പോൾ ദേഷ്യം വന്നു. ഇയാൾ ഉറക്കം അഭിനയിച്ചു പറ്റിക്കയാണ്, ഒരു സംശയവുമില്ല. അപ്പോൾ ആ രോഗി പിന്നെയും സംസാരിക്കുന്നപോലെ കൂടി നിന്നവർക്ക് തോന്നിഃ<br />
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"ഡോക്ടറെ, ദേഷ്യം വേണ്ട. ഈ കിടക്കുന്ന മനുഷ്യൻ നിങ്ങളെ കബളിപ്പിക്കുകയല്ല. വാസ്തവത്തിൽ അയാൾക്ക് ഇതിൽ യാതൊരു പങ്കുമില്ല. അയാൾ ഒന്നും അറിയുന്നുമില്ല. ചില കാര്യങ്ങൾക്ക് നിങ്ങളെ ഞങ്ങൾക്ക് ആവശ്യമുണ്ട്. നിങ്ങൾ ദേഷ്യം അടക്കി ഞാൻ പറയുന്നതു കേൾക്കാൻ ശ്രമിക്കൂ."<br />
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യുക്തിവാദിയായ ഈ യുവ ഡോക്ടർക്ക് ഇതൊട്ടും ഉൾക്കൊള്ളാൻ പറ്റുമായിരുന്നില്ല. ഈ കട്ടിലിൽ ബോധരഹിതനായി ഉരുണ്ട് അഭിനയിക്കുന്ന ഇയാൾ തന്നെ ഇങ്ങനെ പറ്റിക്കുന്നതു ഡോക്ടർക്ക് സഹിച്ചില്ല. ഇയാൾ എങ്ങനെ ഇങ്ങനെ സംസാരിക്കുന്നു എന്നു ഡോക്ടർ സംശയിച്ചു.<br />
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അപ്പോൾ അശരീരി പോലെ പിന്നെയും ആ ശബ്ദം അവിടെ കൂടി നിന്നവർ എല്ലാം കേട്ടുഃ<br />
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" ഡോക്ടറെ, നിങ്ങൾക്ക് വൈദ്യശാസ്ത്രത്തിൽ നല്ല അറിവുണ്ട്. ഈ കിടക്കുന്ന മനുഷ്യന് അതൊന്നും അറിയില്ല എന്നും നിങ്ങൾക്ക് അറിയാം. അതു കൊണ്ട് നിങ്ങളുടെ സംശയ നിവാരണത്തിനായി നിങ്ങൾ ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ ചോദിക്കൂ. നല്ല മറുപടി കിട്ടിയാൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ സംശയം കുറയുമല്ലോ"<br />
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സാഡലർക്ക് ദേഷ്യം കുറഞ്ഞില്ല. എന്നാലും അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ മനസ്സിൽ ചില വൈദ്യ ശാസ്ത്ര പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ ഉടലെടുത്തു. അദ്ദേഹത്തെ ഞെട്ടിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് അദ്ദേഹം മനസ്സിൽ വിചാരിച്ചത് ആ അശരീരി അപ്പോൾ പറയുകയും വളരെ തന്മയത്തോടെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട വൈദ്യശാസ്ത്രപരമായ കാര്യങ്ങൾ വിശദീകരിക്കയും ചെയ്തു.<br />
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ഇതെങ്ങനെയെന്നു സാഡലർക്ക് ഉത്തരമില്ലാതായി. തന്റെ കഴിവുകളിൽ ആദ്യമായി അദ്ദേഹത്തിനു സംശയം തോന്നി. എന്നാൽ ഒരു വലിയ അത്ഭുതം അവിടെ നടക്കുന്നു എന്ന കാര്യത്തിൽ മറ്റുള്ളവർക്ക് എതാണ്ട് ഉറപ്പായി കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു അപ്പോഴേക്കും. പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും ഡോ.ലീനാ സാഡലർക്ക്. അശരീരി ദൈവിക ഇടപെടൽ തന്നെ എന്നു ഡോ.ലീന ഭർത്താവിനോട് ഉറപ്പിച്ചു പറയുകയും അശരീരിയായി അവിടെ ഇടപെടുന്ന ദൈവിക വ്യക്തിക്കോ വ്യക്തികൾക്കോ പറയാനുള്ളത് കേൾക്കാൻ ഭർത്താവിനെ നിർബന്ധിക്കയും ചെയ്തു.<br />
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മനസ്സില്ലാ മനസ്സോടെയെങ്കിലും സാഡലർ അതു സമ്മതിച്ചു.<br />
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തങ്ങൾ ഭൂമിയിൽ നിന്നും വളരെ ദൂരെ നിന്ന് വരുന്ന അരൂപികളായ ചില സന്ദേശവാഹകർ ആണെന്നും ഭൂമിയിലെ മനുഷ്യരോട് പലതും അറിയിക്കാനുണ്ടെന്നും അശരീരി അപ്പോൾ അറിയിച്ചു. അത് പ്രാവർത്തികമാക്കാൻ അതിനു പ്രാപ്തിയുള്ള ചില മനുഷ്യരുടെ സേവനം ആവശ്യമായിരിക്കുന്നു. എന്നാൽ തങ്ങൾ അറിയിക്കുന്ന അറിവുകൾ എത്രമാത്രം സത്യസന്ധമായി അവർക്ക് കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യാൻ സാധിക്കുമെന്ന് ആദ്യം പരിശോധിക്കേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു എന്നും അരൂപി അപ്പോൾ അവരെ അറിയിച്ചു.<br />
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പിന്നീട് അരൂപിയിൽ നിന്നുള്ള അശരീരി ഏതാണ്ട് ഇപ്രകാരം ആയിരുന്നുഃ<br />
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"ഡോക്ടറെ, നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഇപ്പോഴും സംശയം മാറിയിട്ടില്ല എന്ന് ഞാൻ മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നു. സാരമില്ല. നിങ്ങളുടെ സംശയം മാറ്റുവാനും ഞങ്ങൾ ശ്രമിക്കാം. അടുത്ത പ്രാവശ്യം ഈ മനുഷ്യനിൽ ഇപ്രകാരം ഒരു പ്രശ്നമുണ്ടായി നിങ്ങളെ ഈ വീട്ടുകാർ അറിയിച്ചാൽ അപ്പോൾ നിങ്ങൾ കൂടെ നിങ്ങളുടെ സ്റ്റെനോഗ്രാഫറെ കൂടി കൊണ്ടു വരിക. എന്നാൽ ഇവിടെ നടക്കുന്ന ഒരു കാര്യവും നിങ്ങൾ വേറെ ആരോടും ഞങ്ങളുടെ അനുവാദമില്ലാതെ പറയാൻ പാടില്ല"<br />
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ഡോക്ടർമാർ സ്റ്റെനോഗ്രാഫറെ സഹായി ആയി കൂടെ നിർത്തുന്നത് ഇന്നത്തെ പോലെ അന്നും അമേരിക്കയിൽ പതിവ് ആയിരുന്നു. അരൂപിയുടെ കല്പന അവർ എല്ലാവരും അനുസരിച്ചു എന്നു പറയാം. അപ്പോഴേക്കും ആ അരൂപി ശബ്ദത്തെ ഭയബഹുമാനത്തോടെ അനുസരിക്കുന്നവർ ആയിത്തീർന്നിരുന്നു അവർ.<br />
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അങ്ങനെ കുറേ നാളുകൾക്ക് ശേഷം സാഡ്ലർ ദമ്പതികൾക്ക് സ്റ്റെനോഗ്രാഫറെ കൂടെ കൂട്ടി ഈ അയൽവാസിയുടെ പ്രശ്നം പഠിക്കാൻ വീണ്ടും പോകേണ്ടി വന്നു. അന്ന് ആ മനോരോഗിയിൽ നിന്ന് എന്ന വണ്ണം അരൂപി ശബ്ദം പിന്നെയും അവർ കേട്ടു.<br />
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ഇപ്രാവശ്യം അരൂപിയുടെ അശരീരി എന്നവണ്ണമുള്ള ശബ്ദം ഡോക്ടറുടെ സ്റ്റെനോഗ്രാഫർക്ക് കേട്ടെഴുതാൻ ഒരു മെഡിക്കൽ ലേഖനം പറഞ്ഞുകൊടുത്തു. വൈദ്യശാസ്ത്ര ഗവേഷണ രംഗത്തെ ഏതോ വലിയ വിദഗ്ധൻ ഡിക്റ്റേഷൻ കൊടുക്കുന്ന പോലെ അപ്പോൾ അവർക്ക് തോന്നി.<br />
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അടുത്ത പ്രാവശ്യം വരുമ്പോൾ ഈ ലേഖനം റ്റൈപ്പ് ചെയ്ത് തെറ്റ് തിരുത്തി കൊണ്ട് വരാൻ അരൂപി ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടു.<br />
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അവർ അത് അനുസരിച്ചു. എന്നാൽ അവർ റ്റൈപ്പ് ചെയ്ത് കൊണ്ട് വന്ന ലേഖനത്തിൽ കുറെ അധികം അക്ഷരത്തെറ്റുകൾ അരൂപി ശബ്ദം ചൂണ്ടിക്കാണിക്കയും അവരുടെ കഴിവിൽ അതൃപ്തി അറിയിക്കയും ചെയ്തു. തെറ്റുകൾ ഇല്ലാത്ത ഒരു ലേഖനം റ്റൈപ്പ് ചെയ്തു കൊണ്ടു വരുന്നതു വരെ ഈ പരിപാടി തുടരും എന്ന് അരൂപി ശബ്ദം അറിയിച്ചു.<br />
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സാഡ്ലരും ഭാര്യയും ലേഡി സ്റ്റെനോയും ഇക്കാലങ്ങളിൽ അവർക്കു കിട്ടിയ മെഡിക്കൽ ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വായിക്കയും അതിന്റെ ബുദ്ധിപരമായ ഔന്നത്യം കണ്ട് അത്ഭുതപ്പെട്ട് ഇരിക്കയും ഇതിനെപ്പറ്റി ആരോടും പറയാൻ പറ്റാത്ത സ്ഥിതിയിൽ ആയിത്തീരുകയും ചെയ്തു.<br />
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ഇങ്ങനെ കുറേ വർഷങ്ങൾ കടന്നു പോയി എന്നു വേണം കരുതാൻ. ഒന്നാം ലോക മഹായുദ്ധം തുടങ്ങുകയും അമേരിക്കയിൽ അടക്കം അതിന്റെ പ്രതിഫലനം ആളുകൾക്കിടയിൽ പലതരത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടാവുകയും ചെയ്തു. അപ്പോഴേക്കും സാഡ്ലർ ദമ്പതികളും 'ഉറക്ക രോഗി' എന്നവർ വിശേഷിപ്പിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരുന്ന ബിസിനസ് കാരൻ കുടുംബവും ഷിക്കാഗൊയിൽ തന്നെയുള്ള കുറേക്കൂടി മെച്ചപ്പെട്ട വലിയ വീടുകളിലേക്ക് മാറുകയും ചെയ്തിരുന്നു. ഈ ബിസിനസ് കാരൻ വ്യക്തിയെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള വിവരങ്ങൾ രഹസ്യം ആക്കി വച്ചിരുന്നെങ്കിലും അത് കെല്ലോഗ് എന്ന ബിസിനസ് ഗ്രൂപ് സ്ഥാപകൻ മിസ്റ്റർ കെല്ലോഗ് എന്ന് പൊതുവെ ഇപ്പോൾ കരുതപ്പെടുന്നു.<br />
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ഡോ.സാഡ് ലർ ഇതിനോടകം വളരെ തിരക്കുള്ള മെഡിക്കൽ കോളജ് പ്രൊഫസറും പൊതുകാര്യ പ്രവർത്തകനും ഒക്കെ ആയി മാറിയിരുന്നു. ഇതിനിടയിലും കെല്ലോഗ് കുടുംബത്തിൽ ഇടക്കിടെ നടക്കുന്ന ഈ അത്ഭുത പ്രതിഭാസത്തിന്റെ രഹസ്യം അറിയാനുള്ള വ്യഗ്രതയിൽ അദ്ദേഹം അങ്ങനെയുള്ള സന്ദർഭങ്ങളിൽ അവിടെ പോയി അരൂപിയുമായുള്ള സംവാദങ്ങൾ നടത്തിക്കൊണ്ടുമിരുന്നു.<br />
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വലിയ കാര്യങ്ങൾ കേട്ടെഴുതി തെറ്റില്ലാതെ റ്റൈപ് ചെയ്തെടുക്കാൻ ഇവർക്ക് കഴിവു കുറവെന്ന് അതിനകം അരൂപികൾ അന്തിമമായി വിധി എഴുതിക്കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. അതിനാൽ മറ്റൊരു മാർഗം അരൂപികൾ അവരെ അറിയിച്ചു. ലേഖനങ്ങൾ അരൂപികൾ തന്നെ എഴുതി കൊടുക്കുന്ന മാർഗം ആയിരുന്നു അത്. അതനുസരിച്ചു ഡോക്ടർ ചെയ്യേണ്ടത് അവിടെ കുറേ വെള്ളക്കടലാസും പെൻസിലും വയ്ക്കുക എന്നത് മാത്രം. മിനിറ്റുകൾക്കകം ആ കടലാസുകളിൽ പെൻസിൽ കൊണ്ട് വമ്പൻ ലേഖനങ്ങൾ എഴുതിയിരിക്കുന്നത് അവർ കാണുകയായി. എന്നാൽ എത്ര സൂക്ഷ്മമായി പരിശോധിച്ചിട്ടും ആരും ആ കടലാസുകളിൽ എഴുതുന്നതായി അവർ ആരും തന്നെ കാണുകയുണ്ടായില്ല. അതിനെപ്പറ്റി വേവലാതിപ്പെടാതെ ആ എഴുതി വന്ന ലേഖനങ്ങൾ വായിച്ചിട്ട് തെറ്റില്ലാതെ റ്റൈപ് ചെയ്തു കൊണ്ടു വരുവാൻ അരൂപി അശരീരി ഡോക്ടറോട് ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടു. അദ്ദേഹത്തിനും കൂടെയുള്ളവർക്കും അതനുസരിക്കയേ നിവർത്തിയുണ്ടായിരുന്നുള്ളൂ.<br />
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ഇതൊക്കെ നടക്കുമ്പോഴും സാഡ് ലർക്ക് ഇതൊരു ദൈവിക പ്രവർത്തനം എന്ന് വിശ്വാസം വന്നിരുന്നില്ല. അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ഭാര്യ ഇതൊരു ദൈവിക നടത്തിപ്പ് തന്നെ എന്ന് പൂർണമായി വിശ്വസിച്ചു കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. എന്നാൽ അരൂപികൾ ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ട പ്രകാരം ഇത്രയും കാലം ഇതൊരു രഹസ്യമാക്കി വയ്ക്കാൻ അദ്ദേഹം ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചിരുന്നു.<br />
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അക്കാലത്ത് ഡോക്ടർ ദമ്പതികൾക്ക് സമൂഹത്തിൽ മേൽത്തട്ടിലുള്ള കുറെ സുഹൃത്ത് ബന്ധങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായിക്കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. ഇവരിൽ പലരും ഞായറാഴ്ച ഉച്ചതിരിഞ്ഞ് ഡോക്ടറുടെ വസതിയിൽ സൌഹൃദ സംഭാഷണങ്ങൾക്കായും ചായകുടിക്കായും മറ്റും എത്തുക പതിവായിരുന്നു. ഈ അവസരങ്ങളിൽ അവർ പല കാര്യങ്ങളേപ്പറ്റിയും ചർച്ചകൾ നടത്തി വന്നു. ഇതിനെ അവർ 'ഫോറം' എന്ന് വിളിച്ചു.<br />
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അങ്ങനെയിരിക്കെ ഷിക്കാഗൊയിൽ പലയിടങ്ങളിലും മനുഷ്യരുടെ ഭാവിഭൂത പ്രവചനം നടത്തുന്ന ചില നാടോടി ഗ്രൂപ് ഷോകൾ നടന്നു വരികയും ധാരാളം ആൾക്കാർ അങ്ങോട്ട് ആകൃഷ്ടരാവുകയും ചെയ്യുന്ന ഒരു സ്ഥിതി വിശേഷം ഉണ്ടായി. ഇതിനെപ്പറ്റി ഫോറത്തിൽ ചർച്ച ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടു. ഡോ.സാഡ് ലർ ഒരു യുക്തിവാദി മനശാസ്ത്രജ്നൻ എന്നതിനാൽ ഫോറം അംഗങ്ങൾ അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ അഭിപ്രായം കേൾക്കാൻ താത്പര്യപ്പെട്ടു. അവർക്ക് അറിയേണ്ടിയിരുന്നത് ഇതിൽ വല്ല ദൈവിക പ്രവർത്തനം ഉണ്ടോ എന്നായിരുന്നു.<br />
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ഇതെല്ലാം പലതരത്തിലുള്ള മാനസിക കാപട്യങ്ങൾ എന്നായിരുന്നു ഡോ.സാഡലർ വിശദീകരിച്ചത്. സുഹൃത്തുക്കളോട് തന്റെ അനുഭവങ്ങളും അഭിപ്രായങ്ങളും വിശദീകരിച്ച കൂട്ടത്തിൽ അറിയാതെ അദ്ദേഹം ഇങ്ങനെയും പറഞ്ഞുഃ<br />
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"എന്നാൽ മനസ്സിന്റെ കാപട്യമെന്ന് എനിക്ക് ഇതുവരെ പറയാൻ പറ്റാത്ത് ഒരു സംഗതി എന്നെ കുറേക്കാലമായി കുരുക്കിലാക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നു"<br />
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ആ കുരുക്ക് എന്തെന്നറിയാൻ ഫോറം അംഗങ്ങൾ ഉത്സുകരാവുകയും അതിനെ പറ്റി കൂടുതൽ വെളിപ്പെടുത്താൻ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ നിർബന്ധിക്കയും ചെയ്തു. അങ്ങനെ ഡോക്ടർക്ക് അതുവരെ നടന്ന കാര്യങ്ങൾ അവരെ അറിയിക്കേണ്ടി വന്നു. അദൃശ്യമായി പെൻസിൽ കൊണ്ട് എഴുതിക്കിട്ടിയ പല ലേഖനങ്ങൾ തന്റെ കൈവശം ഇരിക്കുന്നത് അവരെ കാണിക്കേണ്ടിയും വന്നു.<br />
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ഫോറം മെമ്പേർസ് അത്ഭുതപരതന്ത്രരായി എന്നു പ്രത്യേകം പറയേണ്ട കാര്യമില്ലല്ലോ. പലരും ഈ അത്ഭുത പ്രതിഭാസം അരങ്ങേറുന്ന കെല്ലോഗ് ഭവനത്തിൽ പോവുകാനും ഇതിനു സാക്ഷിയാകാനും താത്പര്യം അറിയിച്ചു.<br />
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അരൂപികളുടെ അനുവാദം കിട്ടിയാൽ അങ്ങനെ ആകാമെന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം സമ്മതിച്ചു.<br />
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അടുത്ത പ്രാവശ്യം കെല്ലോഗ് ഭവനത്തിൽ ഈ പ്രതിഭാസത്തിൽ ഇടപെടാൻ എത്തിയ പാടെ അരൂപി ശബ്ദം ഇങ്ങനെ അവരെ സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്തുഃ<br />
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"അപ്പോൾ ഇക്കാര്യങ്ങൾ നിങ്ങളുടെ ഫോറത്തിൽ ചർച്ചയായി അല്ലേ? ചിലർ ഇവിടെ വരാനും ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു അല്ലേ? ശരി, അങ്ങനെയാകാം. എന്നാൽ അവർ എല്ലാം തന്നെ ഈ രഹസ്യം കാത്തു സൂക്ഷിക്കുമെന്ന് പ്രതിജ്ന എടുക്കണം."<br />
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അതിനു ശേഷം ചില ഫോറം മെമ്പേർസ് കൂടി പിന്നീടുള്ള സംഭവങ്ങൾക്ക് ദൄക് സാക്ഷികളായി. അശരീരി ശബ്ദത്തിൽ തങ്ങളോട് സംസാരിക്കുന്ന വ്യക്തികൾ ഭൂമിയിൽ അരൂപികൾ എങ്കിലും ഈ പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിൽ പ്രവർത്തന നിരതരായിരിക്കുന്ന അദ്രവ്യ സ്ഥിതിയിൽ ഉള്ള അമർത്യ വ്യക്തികൾ തന്നെ എന്നും അവരുടെ പ്രവർത്തന രീതികൾ എങ്ങനെ എന്നും ഒക്കെ ചില കാര്യങ്ങൾ അവർക്ക് വ്യക്തമാക്കി കൊടുത്തിരുന്നു. അതിൽ ചിലർക്കൊക്കെ വിശ്വാസം ആയില്ല എങ്കിൽ പോലും ഇതൊക്കെ അവരുടെ ചിന്തകൾക്ക് അതീതമായ കാര്യങ്ങൾ തന്നെ ആയിരുന്നു.<br />
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അങ്ങനെയിരിക്കെ ഒരു പ്രാവശ്യം അരൂപിയുടെ ഒരു വ്യത്യസ്ത ശബ്ദം അവർ കേട്ടുഃ<br />
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"നിങ്ങൾ ഈ ഭൂമിയിലെ മനുഷ്യർ വെറും വിഡ്ഡികൾ തന്നെ. ഇത് വേറെ ഏതു ലോകത്തിൽ ആയിരുന്നെങ്കിലും അവിടത്തെ ആളുകൾ ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരവസരം കിട്ടിയാൽ നിങ്ങളെ പോലെ ഇങ്ങനെ പാഴാക്കി കളയില്ലായിരുന്നു. അറിയാത്ത കാര്യങ്ങള് അറിയാൻ ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു സുവർണ്ണാവസരം കിട്ടിയിട്ട് അത് ഉപയോഗിക്കാത്ത നിങ്ങൾ പമ്പര വിഡ്ഡികൾ എന്നല്ലാതെ എന്തു പറയാൻ?"<br />
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വർഷങ്ങളായി നടന്നുകൊണ്ടിരുന്ന ഈ പ്രതിഭാസം മറ്റൊരു തട്ടിപ്പ് എന്ന് വിധിയെഴുതാൻ തക്കം നോക്കിയിരുന്ന ഡോ.സാഡലർക്ക് അതൊരു പ്രഹരവും താക്കീതും ഒക്കെ ആയിരുന്നു.<br />
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ആ താക്കീത് കേട്ട ഫോറം മെമ്പേർസ് ഭയപ്പെട്ടു മാപ്പ് ചോദിച്ചു എന്ന് കരുതണം. അരൂപി വ്യക്തിയുടെ ഉപദേശം അനുസരിച്ച് മുമ്പോട്ട് പോകാം എന്നവർ വാക്ക് കൊടുത്തു. അരൂപിയുടെ ഉപദേശം ഏതാണ്ട് ഇപ്രകാരം ആയിരുന്നുഃ<br />
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"നിങ്ങൾ പലരും സമൂഹത്തിൽ ഉന്നത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസവും അറിവും ഉള്ളവർ ആണു. എന്നാൽ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് അറിയാത്ത പല കാര്യങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടെന്ന് നിങ്ങൾക്ക് തന്നെ അറിയാം. നിങ്ങൾ നിങ്ങടെ ഫോറത്തിൽ ചർച്ച ചെയ്ത് നിങ്ങൾക്ക് അറിയാൻ അതിയായ ആഗ്രഹമുള്ള കുറേ ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ കണ്ടുപിടിച്ച് എഴുതി വയ്ക്കുക. അതിനു ഉത്തരം തരാൻ ഞങ്ങൾ ശ്രമിക്കാം"<br />
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അങ്ങനെ ഫോറത്തിൽ അവർക്ക് അറിയാൻ താത്പര്യമുള്ള ചോദ്യങ്ങളെ പറ്റിയുള്ള ചർച്ചയായി പിന്നീട്. അത് ക്രോഡീകരിച്ച് നൂറില്പരം ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ അരൂപികളോട് ചോദിക്കാനായി അവർ തയ്യാറാക്കി.<br />
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അവർക്ക് എന്തും ചോദിക്കാമായിരുന്നു. എന്നാൽ അവർ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത പ്രധാന ചോദ്യങ്ങളിൽ ആദ്യത്തേത് ചിലത് ഇതായിരുന്നുഃ<br />
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"ദൈവം എന്നൊരാൾ ഉണ്ടോ? ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ എവിടെ, എങ്ങനെ?"<br />
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" ദൈവമാണോ പ്രപഞ്ചവും മറ്റും സൃഷ്ടിച്ചത്? എങ്ങനെ? എന്തിനു?<br />
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"ഈ ഭൂമിയും മനുഷ്യരും എങ്ങനെ എന്തിനു സൃഷ്ടിക്കപ്പെട്ടു?" അങ്ങനെ അങ്ങനെ പല ഉത്തരം മുട്ടിക്കുന്ന ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ.<br />
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ഈ ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ അവർക്ക് അരൂപികളുടെ സമക്ഷം സമർപ്പിക്കേണ്ടി വന്നില്ല. അവരുടെ അറിയാനുള്ള താത്പര്യം എന്തു എന്ന് മനസ്സിലായി എന്നു അരൂപികൾ അവരെ അറിയിച്ചു. അതിനുള്ള ഉത്തരങ്ങൾ ആധികാരികമായി പറയാൻ അറിവുള്ളവർ താമസിയാതെ അതു അവർക്ക് എഴുതി നൽകും എന്ന് അവർക്ക് അറിയിപ്പ് ലഭിച്ചു. ആ എഴുതി കിട്ടുന്ന ഉത്തരങ്ങൾ റ്റൈപ് ചെയ്യുകയും വായിച്ചിട്ട് സംശയങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അതിനുള്ള വിശദീകരണങ്ങൾ ലഭിക്കാനും അവസരം അവർക്ക് കിട്ടും എന്നും അരൂപികൾ അവരെ അറിയിച്ചു.<br />
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അവരുടെ ചോദ്യങ്ങൾക്കുള്ള ഉത്തരമായി അധികം താമസിയാതെ വെള്ളക്കടലാസിൽ പെൻസിൽ കൊണ്ട് എഴുതിയ രീതിയിൽ അനേകം പ്രബന്ധങ്ങൾ ലഭ്യമായി. ആയിരത്തി തൊള്ളായിരത്തി ഇരുപതുകളിൽ എപ്പോഴൊ ആയിരുന്നു ഇത്.<br />
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സാഡലർ ചർച്ചാ ഫോറത്തിൽ പതിവായും പലപ്പോഴായും പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നവരായി ഇക്കാലത്ത് എതാണ്ട് അഞ്ഞൂറിൽ പരം ആളുകൾ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു എന്നു വിശ്വസിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു.<br />
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പ്രബന്ധങ്ങളായി ഉത്തരം ലഭിച്ചതിനു ശേഷം ആ ഉത്തരങ്ങൾ വായിച്ചു മനസ്സിലാക്കുകയും തെറ്റു കൂടാതെ റ്റൈപ് ചെയ്ത് എടുക്കുകയും ചെയ്ക എന്ന ഭാരിച്ച ഉത്തരവാദിത്വം അരൂപികൾ അവർക്ക് കൊടുത്തു. പിന്നീടുള്ള ചില വർഷങ്ങൾ അതായിരുന്നു അവരുടെ ജോലി.<br />
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ടൈപ് ചെയ്ത് എടുത്ത പ്രബന്ധം തെറ്റ് ഇല്ലാത്തത് എന്ന് അരൂപികൾ സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തിക്കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ അത്ഭുതകരമായി പെൻസിലിൽ എഴുതി കിട്ടിയിരുന്ന മൂലപ്രതി അപ്രകാരം തന്നെ അപ്രത്യക്ഷം ആകുന്ന പ്രതിഭാസത്തിനും അവർ സാക്ഷികൾ ആയി.<br />
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ഇക്കാലത്ത് എപ്പൊഴൊ യേശുക്രിസ്തുവിനെപ്പറ്റി അറിയാൻ ആരോ താത്പര്യം പ്രകടിപ്പിച്ചു. അരൂപികൾ അതിനു അപ്പോൾ ഒരു മറുപടിയും നല്കിയില്ല. എന്നാൽ 1935-ൽ "യേശുക്രിസ്തുവിന്റെ ജീവിതവും ഉപദേശങ്ങളും" എന്ന രീതിയിൽ അറുപതിൽപരം പ്രബന്ധങ്ങൾ അവർക്ക് ലഭിച്ചു. അത് ലഭ്യമാകാൻ കാലതാമസം നേരിട്ടതിന്റെ കാരണങ്ങളും അതിൽ വിശദീകരിച്ചിരുന്നു.<br />
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ഇതെല്ലാം കൂടി റ്റൈപ് ചെയ്ത് തെറ്റില്ല എന്ന് അരൂപികളുടെ സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തലും ഒക്കെ അവർക്ക് 1940-തുകളിൽ എപ്പൊഴൊ കിട്ടി എന്നു കരുതണം. നേരത്തെ പറഞ്ഞപോലെ പെൻസിൽ മൂലകൃതി അപ്പോൾ അപ്രത്യക്ഷം ആകുകയും അവരുടെ കൈവശം റ്റൈപ് ചെയ്ത മൂല കൃതി മാത്രം ആവുകയും ചെയ്തു.<br />
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ഈ പ്രബന്ധങ്ങൾ എല്ലാം കൂടി ഒരു പുസ്തകമായി പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാൻ അരൂപികളുടെ ആഹ്വാനം അവർക്ക് ലഭിച്ചു. അതിൻപ്രകാരം പുസ്തകത്തിനു ഒരു ആമുഖമായി ഡോ.സാഡലർ ഒരു ലേഖനം സ്വന്തം പേരു വച്ച് എഴുതി.<br />
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എന്നാൽ അരൂപികൾ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ അതിനു ശകാരിക്കയാണു ഉണ്ടായത്. 'ഒരു മെഴുകു തിരി കൊണ്ട് മഹാനഗരത്തിൽ വെളിച്ചം കിട്ടില്ല" എന്നവർ പറഞ്ഞു എന്നാണ് അതിനെ പ്പറ്റി സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. പിന്നീട് ആ പുസ്തകത്തിനു അവർ ഉറാന്ഷ്യ പുസ്തകം (The Urantia Book) എന്ന് പേരിടാൻ നിർദ്ദേശിക്കയും പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ ഫോർവേർഡ് പഴയതുപോലെ എഴുതി നൽകുകയും ചെയ്തു.<br />
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ഈ പുസ്തകം തയ്യാർ ആക്കുവാൻ സഹായിച്ച ഒരു മനുഷ്യരുടേയും പേരുകൾ ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിൽ ഒരിടത്തും കാണരുത് എന്ന് അരൂപികൾ കർശനമായി അവരോട് താക്കീത് നൽകിയിരുന്നു. അതിശയ കാര്യങ്ങളെ ആരാധിക്കാനുള്ള മനുഷ്യ പ്രവണതയെ നിരുൽസാഹപ്പെടുത്തുവാനാണു ഈ നിബന്ധനകൾ എന്നാണു അരൂപികൾ ഇതിനുള്ള കാരണമായി അവരോട് പറഞ്ഞത്.<br />
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പുസ്തകകർത്താവിന്റെ പേരു വയ്ക്കാതെ അക്കാലത്ത് അമേരിക്കയിൽ പുസ്തക പ്രസാധനം അസാധ്യമായിരുന്നു. അതിനുള്ള പ്രയഗ്നമാണു ഫോറം മെമ്പേർസ് പിന്നെ ചെയ്തത്. അതിലും അരൂപികളുടെ നിർദ്ദേശം അവർക്ക് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു എന്നു കരുതണം.<br />
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അങ്ങനെ ചർച്ചാ ഫോറം ഉറാന്ഷ്യ ഫൌണ്ടേഷൻ എന്ന പേരിൽ ഒരു സൊസൈറ്റി ആയി രെജിസ്റ്റർ ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടു. ഈ സൊസൈറ്റിയുടെ പേരിൽ 1955-ൽ The Urantia Book ഇംഗ്ലിഷ് ഭാഷയിൽ ആദ്യമായി പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടു.<br />
അര നൂറ്റാണ്ട് നീണ്ട, അരൂപികളും മനുഷ്യരും ഉൾപ്പെട്ട ഒരു പ്രയഗ്നം അങ്ങനെ സഫലീകൃതമായി. മനുഷ്യകുലത്തിനുള്ള അഞ്ചാം കാലഘട്ട വെളിപാട് എന്ന് കരുതുന്ന ദി ഉറാൻഷ്യ ബുക്ക് അങ്ങനെ നമ്മുടെ ലോകത്തിനു കിട്ടി.<br />
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മനുഷ്യരുമായി അരൂപികൾ നടത്തിക്കൊണ്ടിരുന്ന ആശയ വിനിമയം പുസ്തകം പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചു കഴിഞ്ഞതോടെ അവസാനിച്ചു.<br />
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ഇതാണു ഭൂമി പുസ്തകത്തിന്റെ അത്ഭുത ചരിത്രം. ഈ ചരിത്രത്തേക്കാൾ മാറ്റുള്ളതാണു അതിൽ പറയുന്ന കാര്യങ്ങൾ.<br />
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Er. Rajan C Mathew FIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271941784093385135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651724990228782828.post-89171606409624014032019-05-16T13:21:00.001+05:302019-08-20T15:56:00.687+05:30Reasons for the Problems of Our World: How Much You Agree to these Findings? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is absolutely no reason why our world, this earth, is not a wholesomely desirable heavenly place for peaceful co-existence for all human beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From what I have learnt from my favorite divinely revealed book, the Urantia book, this earth has been created by a process of divinely controlled evolution. Of course, there are several other processes for creation and I do not wish to discuss those in this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being a divine creation, our earth has been planned to be a material sphere floating in the vast universe space, with precisely balanced dynamics with the help of gravitational forces and several such amazing features. And all those amazing features that our earth has are for us human beings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything that we got in this world including our lives, intelligence, environment reflect infinite wisdom and supreme intelligence behind the creation and sustenance of our world if ever we spare our intelligence to think about those.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of us may call that supreme intelligence that transcends our abilities to fathom as God while some others among us might call it as mother nature. Whatever it be, I prefer to conclude that our life here on earth so thoughtfully created by that unseen supreme intelligence is not without a purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a purpose for our life here on earth. But what is it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we spare some time to think about all those, we are posed with endless questions with seemingly no answers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is it not paradoxical? With supreme work of intelligence quite obvious in our lives, we are posed with questions with no answers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do not know how many around us have these questions in their minds. But such questions do come to my mind quite often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, why can't we human beings live in peace with each other?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why do we hate others like us? Why do we try to find differences to hate, instead of similarities for fellowship and cooperation?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why can't we respect the opinions of others, even when those might happen to be erroneous or stupid? Why do we try to force out opinions on others instead of quietly laughing at those that we find as stupid or in non conformity with out thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why are we so impatient with others?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why do we want to establish our superiority over our fellow beings?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why are we so greedy and selfish when all those we have are not essentially ours, but belong to the unseen super intelligence that caused us to live with that mind to think good and bad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why do we consider as very important in this world when we are not sure of our life tomorrow? Why do we want to capture the space and surroundings around us when we can very well deduce that our lives do not go more than 70 or 100 years in any case?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are we part of the problems that we keep discussing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever thought about it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you share your thoughts on this?</span><br />
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