Thinking aloud

Harthals have turned God's own country in to devil's paradise. Kerala have been paralysed so often and so effectively by the harthal organizers that, common man including myself don’t   venture out on the harthal days.  The police and the administrators are BLIND and DEAF to our problems on the best of times. So on the harthal day, they become all the more inactive and any number of court orders cannot help inspire confidence in people's mind.  With the violence increasing day by day, the risk is too high for my liking...

The really disgusting fact is that, it has been a long time since we had any kind of meaningful, serious and visionary debate or discussion regarding any of the current or future challenges. In God’s own country, the system is simple. One government make rules that affect almost all aspects of human life, only for the next government to overrule all that has been done and make their own rules. You can be sure both sides would be arbitrary and totally visionless during the entire process.  This cycle has been going on here for at least the last twenty years. The biggest tragedy is that the people do not seem to care. Every five years they vote under the influence of anti-incumbency.  Add to this that elite section which is known as social leaders, who always oppose any thought, idea, process or system that has its origin within the last 25 years. These silly and often self serving souls seem to be stuck at least a quarter of a century back in time.  And so we have the perfect mix ...