Easy to say nature should not be touched; what would human beings do?

Remember M.P.Veerendrakumar was Minister of Forests for a day. And he issued the singularly important order on that day. Don't cut any tree.

 No one can question the good intention of M.P.Veerendrakumar, for he is a lover of nature. Now-a-days everyone is speaking in the same vein. Don't touch nature at all. After all, human beings have to dwell on planet earth. He has to find dwellings, and means to live. 

Therefore, he has to tinker with nature. The problem is over-exploitation of nature that would destroy the very existence of life on earth.

 In the name of protecting the environment, ecology and fragile areas, human beings cannot keep off districts of Idukki, Wayanad, parts of Kasargod and the like.

 Now one is asking questions like which would you have, Madhav Gadgil report or Kasturirangan report. Be it Madhav Gadgil or Kasturirangan, there can be no life, to the exclusion of human beings. Let there be temperance at all levels.

Allies in OC Government are enjoying freedom like anything

The allies in the Oommen Chandy Government are enjoying their freedom like anything.

Look into the affairs of K.R.Gowri Amma's JSS, whose state committee has decided to leave the Congress-led UDF. But a special convention would be held in August or so and then take the final decision. Meanwhile, JSS would sit in the UDF meets. Gowri Amma herself would not have any more discussions with the UDF.

M.V.Raghavan's CMP is sitting on the fence, with an eye on moving over to the LDF, if it is possible. By hooks or crooks this party wants governance of Pariyaram Medical college. The government has decided to take over the medical college, but M V Ragahavan would not be appeased.

Now the latest stunt is by Shibu Baby John of a faction of the RSP. Without informing anyone of consequence like the Chief Minister, he went off to meet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The Kerala BJP unit chief says this visit was with the knowledge of it. What a paradox, Kerala CM did not know it.

The allies are enjoying like anything. Let them feast on their freedom.

Labour Minister Shibu Baby John meets Narendra Modi, wants to replicate skill development and knowledge city schemes in Kerala

Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has been impressed by the developments in Gujarat and he wants to replicate the skill development scheme and the knowledge city scheme in Kerala.

Shibu Baby John met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi last Thursday and got direct feedback from him. And Shibu Baby John presented him with an Aranmula metal mirror.

Shibu Baby John was in Ahamedabad to participate in a function of the National Institute of Design when he met Gujarat's Labour Minister who took him to the Chief Minister.

There is no clarity at both UPA and NDA levels regarding advance polls

Janata Dal (United) of Sharad Yadav and Nitishkumar says it won't gravitate away from the BJP-led NDA. It has no reason to break up the firm alliance.

It has only added a rider, there should be a secular-looking, all-embracing Prime Minister.

Nitishkumar has observed that there should be an over-arching personality like the former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to be the new PM.


At some other juncture, he had reportedly said L.K.Advani of Babri Masjid demolition- fame was acceptable as PM.

Still, there is no walking off from the NDA now.

On the other extreme, Sharad Pawar, veteran leader of NCP, has observed UPA alliance is weakening. There could be polls anytime.

More than that, he has called for making plans and preparations for next Lok Sabha polls.

These days Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has been keeping quiet. There may not be any chance of his withdrawing support now, even as he had cautioned his party people earlier that there could be polls in 2013, advanced from 2014.

Anyhow, Defence Minister A.K.Antony has been reiterating that there would not be advance elections.

Lately, an allegation has come up regarding some fiddling at the PMO regarding CBI report on coalgate scam.

This would be more than enough for the Opposition to rattle the ruling dispensation when Parliament reconvenes.

Both ways, at the UPA level as well as NDA level, there appears to be no clarlity.

Allies' opposition mounts against Narendra Modi being named PM candidate; JD (U), Shiv Sena raise banner of revolt

Janata Dal (United) and Shiv Sena have publicly aired their views that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is not acceptable to them as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who himself is an aspirant for the post or at least who hopes to play a crucial role in selecting a secular-looking Prime Minister has demanded of the BJP to make up its mind about the candidature within a week.

 The call would be a precursor to his making cogent decisions. Janata Dal (U) President Sharad Yadav has made it clear that its alliance with the BJP "is based on secular credentials and secularism", making it clear that Modi is simply unacceptable. 

Meanwhile, Uddhav Thackeray,working president of Shiv Sena has said his party is against Narendra Modi becoming the PM. He wants Sushma Swaraj as the PM candidate.

Film. military fields may squirm if women take up cases in the wake of new law

Women are turning femme fatale in the wake of the new law passed by Parliament against atrocities against the weaker sex.

Everything began on a war footing following the gangrape-murder of the Delhi girl.

Yamini Thankachi would not bear the brunts anymore, even if her husband was a Minister. Her plaints were there when he was the Minister, and now a mere MLA. He had to part with property and considerable pie as well.

Now film girl Anjali has turned against her kith and kin for alleged misuse of her in several ways.

For fear of her life, she has gone hiding.

Yesterday a Naval officer's wife had come out openly against the lieutenant-colonel's alleged misbehaviour and atrocious sex depredations. She has alleged that her husband had coerced her into submitting herself sexually to senior level Naval officers.

The Navy people have contradicted her averrments saying the developments were part of a marital discord.

Whatever it is, film people and military hawks where discipline is the inthing, have to watch out.

Skeletons in the cupboard may tumble out.

Apologise and pay up, otherwise jail beckons

Reports say K.B.Ganeshkumar is preparing himself to apologise to wife Yamini Thankachi for two counts.

The apology is for reneging on the agreement for parting of ways, with proper payment and provision of properties to her and two children, as also the public statement issued by his counsel to the effect that Yamini was going inimical spurred by the machinations of the forest mafia.

These days the magistrate has been trying hard to help them arrive at a settlement, after Yamini filed the domestic violence plea, a few days following the filing of petition by Ganeshkumar against Yamini.

Ganeshkumar should count himself lucky that there are a lot of people trying to help him out.

Whatever common sensical arguments are there bothways, the domestic violence clauses are largely favourable to the fair sex. Only because there is a friendly regime and Ganeshkumar is a former minister and now an MLA could he save his face not landing himself in prison.

The women-friendly domestic violence clauses are all the more important and unfriendly to the male folk in the backdrop of the Delhi atrocities.

The public has turned deadly against perpetrators of trouble makers among men.

Yamini has a lot of nicks and cuts on her body that should urge the court to act against him.

Better gird up and act - apologise and pay up - and be a free man. The world is one which fleeces a pound of flesh. Forget about your other peccadilloes.

Will the North Korean leader go berserk and launch a nuclear war? Twenty-nine year-old North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is playing up rhetorics transcending the frequency reached earlier by former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and present Iranian leader Ahmadi Nejad. Kim Jong-un has the inheritance of self-styled glorious leadership of his grandfather and father. This young leader could outwit his forefathers and do something nutty, that is what is feared by the US, South Korea and other world powers. The precocious N.Korean leader has threatened nuclear strikes on the US, formally declared war on South Korea and insists on reopening a nuclear reactor in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. He has already put the world leaders on tenterhooks. In the normal course, no one with sensible thinking would launch a nuclear war. There were reports earlier that Pervez Musharraf was planning to launch a nuclear missile against India during the Kargil war. The-then US President Bill Clinton had intervened to salvage the situation. If a man goes berserk, anything could happen in the world. Major religions have anticipated an armageddon-like occurrence. Let the present threat be not that miserable.

Involve the Congress high command to draft Ramesh Chennithala into the Cabinet The allegation by Yamini Thankachi that she was cheated by all, including Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, was too much. The Chief Minister may not have understood the gravity of the murky goings-on in the family headed by R.Balakrishna Pillai. It seems there existed a situation that was incorrigible. It was this fact that could not be deciphered by the Chief Minister. Of course, he had the good intention to safeguard the cohesion of the government as well. Can that be faulted? If we look through a cross-section of the society, we could confirm that there are situations sometimes which cannot be improved upon, except the court's intervention. Even that could not save the relationships, but parties concerned can go their ways. The silver lining on the dark horizon could be that the Congress high command should be involved in finding ways to accommodate Ramesh Chennithala into the Cabinet. A lot of problems could be solved at one go.