I have been thinking long and hard for the past few days about Indian politics, politicians and political policies. Why are we not moving forward as fast as many other countries? Well, the answer to it is ‘Politics’.

Primarily, if a minimum educational qualification of 10th standard or +2 was set, many ministers, MPs and MLAs would not even qualify. When people have to pass certain qualification tests like the PSC to get government jobs, the people who run the government need not even pass a test. Maybe, people would say elections are a big test. But when people are asked to choose from bad and worse, their choice would still be horribly bad.

In some states, candidates contest elections from jail and some of them actually win the election. When people actually hesitate being linked to someone who has been to jail, how can they choose such a person as their representative? A person who has been to jail is denied IPS/IAS selection or registration in the BAR council. But how ridiculous is it that a person who has been to jail is allowed to contest elections.

Politicians want to rule the state or nation even when they are well past their prime at the age of 70+. Some of them can’t even walk properly owing to knee problems, but they still want to contest elections and campaign in wheel chairs. The world is moving fast and such people are left far behind.

I was thinking very deeply when I started getting the facts. Almost 99% of qualified well educated people look for jobs straight after our education is over. We never bother about the country or the people in it. Those people who are left behind with no jobs, due to lack of education or criminal background, see politics as a way of income.

Even if the qualified people join politics, they do so at an age of around 25-40 but are stopped from progressing because there are many people still at high places who are waiting for years for their chance in the party. Educated people feel suffocated because they are neither having a job nor are they involved in the actual politics. So many quit and this leaves our country at the hands of second rate politicians.

The only solution for this dilemma is the emergence of educated youth in politics. It may be as a fourth front or as a powerful tidal wave which sweeps across India and wipes out the corruption and negligence in Indian Politics.

Place:- Near Pallickal Post Office, Kattanam

I was on my way to college when the bus stopped near the Post Office. I was sitting by the window and when I looked outside, I was only a few feet away from the transformer. That is when I caught sight of this and here it is on my blog.

I might sound crazy, but am I really? I came across this article recently and did a lot of googling and finally I am writing about it.

A mobile battery can be charged using two peepal leaves.

However unbelievable it may sound, people who came to learn about this tested it, and found encouraging results.

You would have to take out your mobile battery from the handset and connect it with peepal leaf. After that without shaking mobile set the battery should be placed back in the handset. After some time your mobile would be charged.

According to Botanists, it is just changing mutual energy into electrical energy power which can be saved in the battery.

PS - I haven’t tested this technology.

Step by Step guide to charge your mobile battery using Peepal leaves

1- Open your mobile cover

2- Take out your battery

3- Take two to three fresh leaves of peepal/pipal/ashwattha tree

4- Touch the stub of these leaves on your mobile battery terminal for a MINUTE

5- Clean the mobile battery terminal with a soft cloth

6- Put the battery back in your mobile and switch it on

7- Now you can see the result

8- If required, repeat the process with fresh leaves !

Vaaranam Aayiram (meaning: Strength of a thousand elephants) deals with father son relationship in a manner never before seen. The movie is a flashback when the younger Surya (a military officer) is thinking about the relationship he shared with his dad (also played by Surya) after he hears the news of his father’s death.

The movie is truly refreshing and its biggest strength is Surya. Surya’s look as a 16 year old, 24 year old and as the father is truly awesome. Surya lives the character and delivers his best ever performance. Sameera Reddy and Divya Spandana do their little parts well. Simran as Surya’s mother is truly amazing.

The music by Harris Jayaraj is fantastic. Cinematography and editing are superb. The narrative could have been better. The main drawback of the movie is the slow first half and the length of the movie. But all credits to director Gautham Menon for providing such a visually and emotionally rich movie.

The movie presents us with truly memorable scenes like the one in which Surya meets Sameera for this first time, or the one in which he goes to her house or the one in which he searches for he in California. All scenes are realistic and far from fantasy which is why this movie works for me.

Gautham Menon said that this movie was a tribute to his father and so it is.

Rating: 8/10

This is another of those stories that I received via e-mail.

A girl and guy were speeding over 100 mph on a motorcycle.

Girl: Slow down. Im scared.

Guy: No this is fun.

Girl: No its not. Please, its too scary!

Guy: Then tell me you love me.

Girl: Fine, I love you. Slow down!

Guy: Now give me a BIG hug. (Girl hugs him)

Guy: Can you take my helmet off and put it on? Its bugging me.

In the paper the next day: A motorcycle had crashed into a building
because of break failure. Two people were on the motorcycle, but only one
survived.

The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized that his breaks
broke, but he didn’t want to let the girl know.

Instead, he had her say she loved him, felt her hug one last time, then had her wear his helmet so she would live even though it meant he would die.