Trees of Kerala-Rosewood (Eetty)

Keralites have got lot of fascination for Rosewood, known as Eetty in Malayalam. In finished condition this wood will have a smooth brown colour nearing coffee brown in colour.
This wood is normally preferred for furniture work as with carvings wood will look good. When you plant a rosewood tree it grows very slowly. It takes nearly 120 years for it to reach a size suitable for cutting and use. Outside of the wood will have more soft core compared to teak. Among wood used in Kerala this wood is the costliest.
This wood cannot be used for door and window frames as the wood will get damaged when it get in contact with cemented surface. It can only be used for shutters and furniture. Pictures show Rosewood trees of reasonably bigger size. I have planted a tree ten years back in my land .But it is yet to become thicker in size though teak wood planted on the same day has grown in thickness almost three times

Honesty and principles have they disappeared from our public life?

After hearing and reading news in media these days I simply wonder at times whether honesty and principles have become something to be practiced by fools in our state of Kerala. Respected principled leaders of left parties continuously tell without any hesitation simple lies to protect their greatest leader Pinaray Vijayan
Whatever may be the accusations against him, CBI enquiry should be prevented at any cost. It is only an attempt to destroy left movement instigated by America. For preventing that expert lawyers from Delhi can be brought using tax payer’s money. Advocate General has to give advice against prosecution of Pinaray Vijayan. Ministry cannot and should not give sanction to prosecute our beloved leader. If Governor act against this crude attempts to protect greatest looter of state of Kerala then he has to be condemned. If Chief Minister did not tell lies like other ministers in support of Pinaray Vijayan then he should be expelled from this great party
Earlier at least I had a faint thinking that unlike K.Karunakaran, R.Balakrishna Pillai, T.M Jacob etc these left leaders had some principles. But this lavlin issue has shown how unashamedly they are protecting a looter and trying desperately to prevent any investigation on the deal only because of the fact that they know very well that their beloved leader is a crook and looter of public money. It is high time they changed name of their party as Looters Party of India. Probably they can keep that Marxist Leninist brackets. They use these names to justify their wrong doings lootings and continuous chorus repeating of utter falsehood thinking that common man will believe these falsehoods as truth.

Withering away of Communism

Communism and socialism were political ideologies promising equal status, opportunities and equal distribution of wealth of the country. In a society with several inequalities mostly in the name of religion, caste ,protective regulations, laws and traditional values for privileged few in the society, these equality theories and political thoughts have attracted several young people over the years. Some of them felt so strong about these utopian ideologies that they were even willing to sacrifice their own lives in the hope that future generations will have a just equitable society
Basically human beings are selfish and they have a highly possessive attitude for everything, be it property, family, relatives, extended family and people of same caste, village or same religion. This possessive nature of human being has helped people to work hard to amass wealth so that his or her next generation will live in prosperity. Communism tried to work against these basic human instincts of private property, possessiveness and has failed all over the world. Today even erstwhile Russia and China have embraced capitalism which promotes free enterprise and persuade any one to work hard for him, his family and his people. Capitalism being something natural to human nature, it is quite natural that it has become universally accepted economic system of life
Democracy and right of people to choose and reject those who rule them as their representatives have set in motion social justice actions from democratically elected rulers of the country. These social justice actions have resulted in reducing social inequities and have also speeded up social welfare measures for the downtrodden and less privileged sections of society. This again reduced significance of movements like communism and socialism
Leaders of so called communist movements have over a period of time become selfish opportunists trying to amass wealth for them through legal or illegal means. Democratic elections have given them political power in countries like India. First Communist ministry in Kerala and few successive communist governments headed by people like E.M.Sankaran Namboothiripad, C.Achutha Menon, and E.K.Nayanar have tried to bring social justice through legal reforms. Basically these leaders were selfless people who cannot be corrupted by lure of money. But when Pinaray Vijayan became the leader of Communist party in Kerala, all pretentions of idealism is thrown to winds. Looting money through SNC Lavlin or similar deals which may not have come to the light of the public has become the right thing to do. Threatening people of the state through media and talking in arrogant manner has also become right thing to do.
Funniest part of the story is that even after electoral defeat in the recent Parliament elections, the committee members of Communist party have found that the only credible and honest leader of the party, Chief Minister Achuthanandan is the main reason for electoral defeat of the party! People like Jayarajan who looks and talks like a thevar of Tamil Nadu, a minister who consider using abusive language in media as a routine affair are all supposed to be loved ones of the people of Kerala. If this is the way the ruling party assess the mood of the people of Kerala, the day is not too far when the communist party become only a party of few people comprising secretary and committee members only