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7th Standard Textbook - Good,Bad and the holy beast

July 9th, 2008 · 12 Comments

The Kerala Government continues to refuse demands for withdrawal of the 7th Standard Textbook which promotes Atheism and questions God.In completely unrelated news, the Monsoon has literally kept out of Kerala, the state football team failed to reach the Santosh Trophy semi-finals and K Karunakaran turned 90.
The message from up above is clear. God Exists […]

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Tags: India · social · kerala · State of the Union · secularism · Papa Bear · freedom · talkies · malayalam · 2009 Elections

Page 24 - 7th Standard Social Studies Textbook

June 23rd, 2008 · 167 Comments

Education Reform in Kerala - VIIth Heaven Standard….
Yet another pastoral letter across churches yesterday, KSU(Congress’s student wing) activists and police clash across the state, Muslim League enters the protests arena in its North Kerala strong holds, and today the opening session of the state Assembly comes to a virtual standstill on the issue. Education Reform in […]

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Tags: social · kerala · secularism · Papa Bear · malayalam

Martin Luther King Jr - "I have a dream"

December 3rd, 2006 · 9 Comments

I haven’t seen anything more powerful before, full video - Youtube, 17 minutes

Martin Luther King Jr - “I have a dream”

Full text of the speech
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“And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When […]

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Tags: US · social · Dalit

Why is the Indian Muslim missing ?

November 12th, 2006 · 22 Comments

The word on the street is “shock”. If not the street, atleast in the power corridors of Delhi and the state capitals of India after the Sachar committee findings on the state of Muslims in India. The Rajinder Sachar panel appointed last year by the prime minister to report on the social, economic and […]

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Tags: India · social · reservation

Of Human migration

May 18th, 2006 · 4 Comments

We are all immigrants,some of us geographically,many of us socially in times of upward or descending mobility and a few of us find ourselves in wastelands or newfoundlands after the flood waters of the exodus recede. I remember the poignant scene in the middle of Vasthuhara set in the swelling backdrop of a Calcutta drizzle […]

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Tags: US · social