വിജയദശമി ആശംസകൾ

പലതിന്റേയും ആരംഭമാകുന്നു മഹത്തായ വിജയദശമി ദിനം. കുറേ നാളുകളായി ഉപേക്ഷിക്കപ്പെട്ട നിലയിലായിരുന്ന ബ്ലോഗിൽ പതിവയി എഴുതാൻ ഞാൻ തീരുമനിച്ചു. പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട സഹൃദയർക്കായി ഞാൻ ഇവിടെ ആദ്യാക്ഷരം കുറിച്ചുകൊള്ളട്ടെ !!!ഹരി ശ്രീ ഗണപതയെ നമ: അവിഘ്നമസ്തു
ഓർമകളുടെ അരുവികൾ നമുക്ക്‌ വാക്കുകൾ സമ്മാനിച്ചുവാക്കുകൾ വ്യക്തിത്വമാണെന്നതു കൊണ്ട്‌നല്ലതു പറയുന്നവൻ നല്ലവനാകുന്നുവാക്കുകളിൽ നിന്നും കവിയും കഥാകാരനും ജനിക്കുംമ്പോൾഞാൻ എവിടെ നിന്നാണു വന്നത്‌??വീണാ വദിനീ ശ്രീ സരസ്വതീവരമായ്‌ തന്നീടുക വാക്കുകൾ

I AM WITH MR. BACHAN

MR.Amithab Bachan, the Hollywood icon has rejected the doctorate given by the Queensland University as a reaction of the vilance against Indian students in Australia. I an sure the crores of Indians will be with Mr. Bachan in this regard. The newly elected UPA government is still in its honeymoon mentality. The concerned ministries are not reacted and has not taken any diplomatic measures against this racial killings. The Minister of state (external affairs) Dr. Shashi tharoor has said that I cannot say anything that I have not learned about. The main opposition, BJP also not taken the issue till date.When the government and responsible sides are walking as a duck in this matter, the reaction from Mr. Bachan in this regard should be appreciated.

Jihad Against Children?

What you are going to achieve through the Jihad against the children? It is a barberic act to declare war against the children. This is a clear symbol that terrorist outfits and political parties having seperatist ideology have crossed all boarders. Still we should not be patient against these groups. Declaration of war agaisnst the migrant employees in Kashmeer is agaist the constitution of India. The Govt. of India should take firm action agaist these groups and political parties in Kasmeer.

25th BIRTH DAY

It is my recent thinking that, how and with whom I have to celebrate my 25th birth day. Sure I cannot be with my family and I will be in Nizamabad, Andhrapradesh. June 5th is a working day. First I think about to take a leave on June 5th, but I have taken more leaves already, so no chance for a leave. Any way this birthday also may be an usual day even though I have planned to celebrate it specially. I would like to introduce a lot of changes in to my life after June 5th and decided to write a book about my life, views and plans at the end of one month celebration.

IS THE VERDICT OF JOHN HANSEN CORRECT?

The decision of the ICC appeal commissioner John Hansen on the issue of racial abuse case between Indian off spinner Hurbhajan Singh and Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds during the second test match of the India - Australia test series is not rational. It was undoubtedly cleared during prosecution and clearly stated fact in the verdict of Mr. Hansen, that actually it was Symonds who is responsible for unnecessary and anti cricket issues in the field. But even after all this the person who has the core responsibility of the unfortunate happenings has escaped without punishment through this verdict and the punishment of Hurbhajan has limited to fine. It is the another observation by Mr Hansen in his report, that the statements made in front of the commission by some Australian players are lacking authenticity and honesty. On all these grounds it is very clear that a counter attack by the Australians to the Indian off spinner is what that was happened. But Hurbhajan only got the punishment. Even though Indian player cleared racial abuse case, there is no warning for Australian's negative way of aggressive cricket.

Hurbhajan extended wrong words to Symonds, that is a fact. So a punishment for him is unavoidable. But who is responsible of that worst scene? That question was not considered here rationally. Here another interesting point is that the punishment for a 'monkey' calling is more than the same for a wrong word about one's mother. Here what Hurbhajan has done is the needy reply for the nuisance in the play ground.

MANTHRA - A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE

It is all about the story of a girl who is a little bit courageous and bold in facing the problems in her life. Manthra is an ambitious teen age girl among her destiny and loneliness, with a lot of maturity. She is facing financial crisis due to the death of her father even though she has a luxurious banglow to dispose. That banglow and the myths about it and how the banglow and its horror stories creating a problem in the life of a girl who is almost alone, is the key story of this fantastic Telugu movie.

This is a fine example of telling the story in a different way, taking a deviation from the orthodox film making in Telugu. This work has its own identity because it never using the charismatic image of any popular star even though the hero and heroine are well renowned stars in Telugu. The film maker picturised one suicide and two murders in the very fist part of the film which kept the audience in a strange suspense. These scenes raised more questions in the minds of spectators like, why that man jumped from the building?, who murdered that lady? and who is burning in fire?

The story is progressing smoothly through the inquiry of the hero on what is happening in that banglow. One important comment I want to say is about the song in the film. One is the flash back song in quiet natural story situation – the honey moon of the couple. But, even though I cant understand the meaning of the lines, I can say that the music and voice of the song is very much situational and different. The second song which reveals the ambition of the heroine to become a pop singer is exactly good and it also revealing the hope of pop music in Telugu.

The movie is also depicting the consequences of unexpected happenings in human life. Firstly, that young couple was leading a happy life. He loved his wife very much but she cheated him by sharing bed with a neighbor. He has committed suicide by seeing this unexpected cheating. In her life also it put a semi Collen and she wandered madly around the banglow for a long time. In the case of second family his financial bankruptcy made him mentally disordered and that resulted the murder of two including his wife. He stayed in that banglow and murdered or tried to murder those who are trying to open that room. In case of Muniswamy also interesting co incidents happening after he wrote his name in the empty name board. All these incidences affecting Manthra – the banglow owner and she successfully faced all these difficulties with the help of hero Even though she faced the killer and death in a close distance.

The use of cinematography and sound and lighting system used to keep the horror surroundings and suspense was splendid. The selection of actor and actress for the characters are also great in this picture. But in my opinion, we can say some more things about how that man became mad. Any way it is a good work which combines commercial and art values.

HOPEFUL PLANNING

(a view on the proposals of Kerala State Planning Board meeting on Friday)

The meeting of Kerala State Planning Board on 14/12/2007, chaired by Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has proposed the 7,605 Crore Rupees annual plan which recorded Rs 655 crore increase compared with the current plan of Rs 6,956 crore. It giving a light to the hopes of the state, which is lagging behind in some of the crucial growth indexes among some historical achievements. This declaration is noted with some important policy deviation from the declared political policies of the ruling front.

Increase in allocations to Govt. Departments
The plan allocation of various Govt. Departments has increased rather than the Local Self Government Organisations as per the vision of Mr Prabhath Patnaik, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board. This move is considered to be an important deviation from the policies of ruling left political parties and ministers including Finance Minister. But it is more important that the interest of the state rather than the political considerations and therefore debate should be on the basis of the utility of the policy by avoiding the subject of left deviation. Decentralization and People’s Planning are the subjects to be welcomed but it is not rational to allocate fund to Local Self Government Organisations in an uncontrolled manner. This is the practical experience that this kind of fund allocation badly affects better plan utilization and the quality of rural and urban development. Lack of Trained officials and elected representatives leading the situations to poor plan utilization in grass root level and partialities and corruption. When a Government is decentralizing power and fund to grass root levels it should ensure that responsibilities and effectiveness are passing from bottom to top. But unfortunately here no actions have been taken to improve the quality of plan utilization and to improve people’s participation in Grama Sabhas. This will affect the speed of development of the state. The phenomenon of poor fund utilizations allocated to various developmental projects and preparation of surplus budget by some of the LSGOs are not good for a scares recourses state. Therefore the decision to allocate considerably more fund to Govt. departments than LSGOs will bring an order for our economic management.

Increase in Social Sector Allocation
The increase of social sector allocation considering sectors like health, education, rural small-scale projects, agriculture, and traditional industries as thrust areas, is an expected and timely action. But it is important that how the fund utilizations are taking place. If the ‘super specialty policy’ is continuing in health sector the number of fever deaths will increase in future also. The situation of increasing super specialty hospitals and lack of beds and medicines in primary health centers will leads to more complicated problems in the sector. The existence of super specialty hospitals is based on the occurrence of deceases at regular intervals in the society but the objective of primary health centers is to protect the society from the deceases. Then which of these will be important?

The change, which this Government is trying to bring to the educational sector is not at all acceptable. The scheme, which we can call it as ‘panchayat education’ has already been opposed by various student, teacher, and parents associations. It is better to bring more centralization in syllabus, teaching methods and valuation than decentralization. Public is in deep concern with the resent statements of some ministers about the replacement of rice food with chicken fry, egg and milk in schools. Lot of ambitious projects in agriculture sector is in pending with the lack of co-ordination between various government departments. It is the duty of a good Government to seek new channels instead of dependence of failed mechanism to reach help to the needy sections without interruption.

The proposed plan extending full support to IT, Truism and Industrial development. Moreover the state is going to get a Central assistant of Rs 100 crores under Rashtreeya Krishi Vikasana Yojana (RKVY), which is not included in the plan proposed. In the current fiscal Rs 60 crore is the sate’s allocation under RKYV scheme. These points will definitely give some movements to the development dreams of malayalees.

Approach towards Foreign Loans
The proposed plan is silent about the receipt or attempt to receive any foreign credit. This will be in tune with the political stands of LDF particularly the stand of the Chief Minister. Blind stand against foreign credit is not rational but if the economic conditions of the state not demanding foreign credit we can very well stand off from the foreign credit based planning particularly the state’s public dept is in peek. This decision will give more financial freedom. More over the fund utilization of various foreign credits based projects are also not satisfactory. In the current fiscal it is only 5%. Credit from the public also a good idea under this kind of situations and it will give a good effect in the current inflated economy also.

Public-Private Participation
It is a point to welcome that the government will allow private participation in 100% state funded projects. But the consensus between the Government, various political parties and trade unions in this regard is necessary. Incidents like uncertainty over Vallarpadam project due to frequent labour strike should not be occurred in future. This will stop the investment flows and the development of the state.

Poor Plan Utilization.
As on 30th November 2007 states total plan utilization is only 26% which is not good for speedy current circumstances even though it is a better figure than the previous year’s. We should move forward with steps to improve our plan utilization. The ministers from various political parties in a coalition ministry should act apart from their own political considerations and that is why we can attain better co-ordination of departments and controlling and effectiveness ensuring of the beaurocracy.

Conclusion
We may hope that Malayalees will get a plan proposal, which give more hopes of development, after going through the Cabinet meeting (where it can change) and Central Planning Board as a New Year Gift.

Kumar. R. Samyogee