May 21st, 2008 — Experiences
I hope the Santhosh Madhavan Episode has cast the death spell of Swamis in Kerala. Atleast it will prevent new Swamis from entering the lucrative faith market. Lets forgive the big shots, the established ones. They are too connected, and too wealthy to face an investigation. The Babas and the Mathas are virtual Kings and Queens.
Now the entire media attention is on the Swamis. But there is another kind of faith sellers, the ones who come in Blazers and executive dresses. To see a real example check today’s Mathrubhumi, page 13, Trivandrum Edition. There is a full page Ad. Or check out GOD channel or the Miracle Channel. These guys are the modern version of our Swamis.
For the time being they appear harmless. All that they cause now is noise pollution, and defamation of the true Christian. But basically they are also into a dangerous business, the business of faith. And faith have this very small problem. It makes you vulnerable. Swamis took advantage of their followers faith. These guys are next.
They sell GOD in pieces. They sell miracles. They are the wholesale dealers of faith. Check their internal hierarchy and you will find scandals, self proclaimed Bishops, people with criminal backgrounds etc.
These guys will be the Santhosh Madhavans of the future if we dont put a check on their activities. These guys are getting huge amounts of money from outside India. We ease upon their activities because the police and the government is afraid to touch a sensitive area. Religious sentiments are a powerful excuse for all sorts of nonsense.
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May 18th, 2008 — Experiences
The entire Santosh Madhavan Episode is a big cover up. The main stream media, the police and the government is trying to cover up something big, really really big using the god man Santhosh as the bait. And who is that bait for ? No doubt, us, the public, the age old donkeys.
Just take a look at the events that happened and the focus of our media and the government. Interpol wanted someone who was into arms smuggling, Someone from Kerala who is into arms smuggling. Now what is our police, media and the government doing ?
These three are after a stupid silly god man. And look at the charges against him. Cheating, Wild life protection. And now some masala also. Porn film making, and that too with children. Now this is enough material for the media and the police to celebrate for a month.
Manorama says that his favourite means of worshipping was some form of naked ritual. At the first instance we will know that its a fake news. Its written by some reporter there just for feeding our imagination. Now all the attention is diverted towards all the fraud god men here. Its good, every god man should be jailed. But we are missing the big show here.
While all this media hungama is happening our little arms dealer will clear his tracks and escape. After a month we will forget about the entire issue. Some thing else will come up by then. Ahhh the engineering and the self finance drama, episode 3 is around the corner.
I appreciate the little arms smuggler from Kerala for having got into a very dangerous and wealthy market. I also appreciate him for making all of us fools by feeding us with cooked up news. What a great way keep the public engaged.
As accused by someone, the arms dealer is connected to some of our politicians. There is no other way, he could get away with this Kerala. The police helped him by removing his photo from the interpol website and replaced it with the poor God man here.
Our politicians and the media has grown to international standards. Politicians are into arms smuggling. And the media is doing a wonderful job giving us material to think and worry about daily, and that too semi porn content. Child porn and nude worship for Christs sake !!!!
Noam Chomsky once said - Propaganda is to Democracy what violence is to dictatorship.
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May 14th, 2008 — Experiences
Real estate mafia is one word that we have been hearing recently from a lot of sources, especially from the leftist politicians. Im wondering Why we are calling them a mafia ?
Realestate people buy and sell land. Land is a scarce resource and its demand is ever increasing. When something is in demand, its natural for the prices to increase. The profit in realetate is the margin you get when a transaction happens.
In share trading also people buy and sell shares. The profit is the margin amount. Now this is very much similar to real estate. Lets looks at the differences between realestate and share trading
- Land is a scarce resource but shares can be issued in any numbers any time
- Land prices are very much stable compared to share prices
- Land tading is a simple concept and the market forces are easily understood, while share trading is a very complicated process with lots of complex laws.
- Share trading a much much riskier thing to do when compared to realestate.
Its looks to me as if there is not much of a difference in the concept of realestate and shares. I see a point in buying and selling land. But I dont see any point in share trading. Why are we buying and selling shares at a frantic rate.
Whats the whole idea behind a share market and this trading thing. Isnt it all a hype these corporates create to make us invest our hard earned money into some companies at exorbittant prices ? Isnt the present share market a big mafia of the corporates ?
We call the real estate people a mafia, and the realestate job has no respect. But people trading shares are seen with respect. Both are doing similar things. Buy low, sell high. This is the principle in both businesses.
Then we should be calling all the share traders collectivley, The share market mafia.
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April 30th, 2008 — Education
Recently my cousin came from UK with his wife and two happy kids. We had a discussion about the primary education system there. I was very much surprised to know that our systems of education differed a lot, even though we were under their rule for quite some time.
Our primary education is very much flawed. and when thinking about my own primary education I can see how much of a bad influence it still has on me. The mistake we do is classify students at an early age. We test them, and give them ranks.
We categorise them as good and bad. We punish them infront of their own peers. We insult them and send them out of the class. We write total nonsene “Your kid is not studying properly” and ask them to get it signed by their parents.
We train them like we train elephants, we stand on their right and their left and try to break their will. We take away all their breathing space and leave them with some silly text books.
In UK everything the kid does is appreciated. Whatever crap he writes, what ever rubbish he draws gets stamped “Excellent”. Every evening the kid comes home with a bunch of “Excellent” stamps. Think about the confidence he gains by such simple appreciation.
I still remember how I learned multiplication table. I have trouble memorizing things, and it was such a horrilble experience that hated going to the school. The teacher would make everyone stand and recite it as if it were some poem. What a stupid way to teach maths. Whats the point is memorizing it all when we have calculaters and computers.
We force all sorts of crap onto these kids, stupid poems, hard to learn mathematics, nonsense science even before most of them are ready. All these coupled with a bunch of unfriendly and inhumane teachers can ruin a childs entire future.
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April 28th, 2008 — Experiences
The Vanitha article about “Mobile phones and Blue Truth”, that contains so called real stories, provoked me to write my previous post
http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/04/25/vanitha-internet-and-the-mobile-phone/
Thanks to the readers for pointing out some examples of stinking journalism that the Malayala Manorama group does.
The first one, their sting operation in which they send some girls to provoke men and collect evidence that all men are molesting women in buses and and at night. The girls had some bad experience from a bus depot at night, and they generalised that we are all sex predators.
The same Malayala Manorama group publishes a magazine “The Man”, which deals with topics like Threesome, Erotic Love, India’s hottest bikini girls and lots and lots of pictures of semi nude girls. They publish “The Man” at one hand and on the other they write about women being used as a commodity.
There was a news report in their channel and it said “Bluetooth, the poison tooth”. They were describing bluetooth as technology to transfer blue films. There are millions of people who trust these publications and its really sad to see them giving such idiotic reports.
The same group once described all private buses that run to Bangalore as a place enjoy with your girl friend, where you have one nights total freedom, without having to worry about anyone.
They are successful in their mission. A friend of mine from cochin told me that her mom took away her mobile after reading the Vanitha article. Mom also commented - “Will give you your mobile when you get married”.
Every technology that can be used, can be misused. Not just the internet and the mobile phone, the print media also. And the best example of paper being misused is Vanitha and the Malayala Manorama.
After having said all this, Id like to congratulate every parent who still trusts their children with internet and mobile phones. Your kids will defenitly value your trust and it will give the confidence they need to live in this world.
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