<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016</id><updated>2011-11-10T11:20:07.992+05:30</updated><category term='tweeters'/><category term='Dr. Tharoor'/><category term='RTI'/><category term='Controversy'/><category term='news'/><category term='കൂട്ടം കേരളമീറ്റ്'/><category term='തരൂര്‍'/><category term='വാഗ്ദാനങ്ങള്‍'/><category term='അഡ്മിന്‍'/><category term='Water'/><category term='Act'/><category term='പ്രതികരണം'/><category term='ചന്ദ്രകുമാര്‍'/><category term='Asha P Nair'/><category term='Dharna'/><category term='Hotel'/><category term='Bloggers'/><category term='എം.പി'/><category term='ഉപഭോക്തൃ പരാതികള്‍'/><category term='Trivandrum'/><category term='Video'/><category term='ഷൗട്ട്ഔട്ട് ഡോട് ഇന്‍'/><category term='ShashiTharoor'/><category term='എഫ്ഇസി'/><category term='Kerala'/><category term='MP'/><category term='കൊടകരപുരാണം.'/><category term='Shashi Tharoor'/><category term='meet'/><category term='KSEB'/><category term='IPL'/><category term='Reception'/><category term='വ്യക്തിഹത്യ'/><category term='അസഭ്യം'/><category term='Tweetup'/><category term='Nepal'/><category term='Thiruvananthapuram'/><category term='അറിയിപ്പ്'/><category term='Welcome'/><category term='Letter'/><category term='Rape'/><category term='Geeth International'/><category term='ധര്‍ണ'/><category term='Oman Daily'/><category term='അങ്കിള്‍'/><category term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category term='Pollution'/><category term='ceokerala'/><category term='Monorail'/><category term='Expressbuzz'/><category term='Channels'/><title type='text'>Trivandrum-Bloggers</title><subtitle type='html'>An attempt to bring Trivandrum Bloggers to collect under an umbrella to discuss common issues beyond part politics, share knowledge, support, technology etc.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-398912449880929608</id><published>2011-01-10T10:52:00.026+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-13T06:17:16.040+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='അങ്കിള്‍'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ചന്ദ്രകുമാര്‍'/><title type='text'>ആദരാഞ്ജലികള്‍</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TS5LR_bYHxI/AAAAAAAACT4/i6BvXZFVXEU/s1600/Chandrakumar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TSqXeX0uIEI/AAAAAAAACRo/G2wsTWCAiNQ/s1600/Chandrakumar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TSqXeX0uIEI/AAAAAAAACRo/G2wsTWCAiNQ/s400/Chandrakumar.JPG" width="297" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;ശ്രീ പത്മനാഭപിള്ളയുടെയും  ശ്രീമതി ഓമനഅമ്മയുടെയും മകനായി 1943 ഫെബ്രുവരി  25 ന് ജനിച്ചു. സംഗീത് മകനും ചിത്ര മകളും ആണ്.  പൂജാവിദ്യ മരുമകളും മദന്‍കുമാര്‍ മരുമകനും ആണ്. കീര്‍ത്തന, ഹേമു എന്നിവര്‍ മകളുടെ മക്കളും. സുകുമാരന്‍, രാജകുമാര്‍, മോഹന്‍, വിജയകുമാര്‍ എന്നിവര്‍ സഹോദരന്മാരും ആണ്.&lt;a href="http://manoramaonline.com/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560757850645862514" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TSvHzZG2GHI/AAAAAAAACR8/ze55G52aXHU/s400/NPC.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 121px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ തുടക്കംമുതല്‍ സജീവ സാന്നിധ്യമായിരുന്ന ശ്രീ ചന്ദ്രകുമാര്‍ എന്‍.പി എന്ന റിട്ടയേര്‍ഡ് സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ജീവനക്കാരന്‍ 9-01-2011 ന് ഹൃദ്രോഗസംബന്ധമായ അസുഖം മൂലം നിര്യാതനായി. 'അങ്കിള്‍' എന്ന അപരനാമത്തില്‍ ഉപഭോക്താവ് (&lt;a href="http://upabhokthavu.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://upabhokthavu.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;), സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ കാര്യം (&lt;a href="http://sarkkaarkaryam.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://sarkkaarkaryam.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;) എന്നീ ബ്ലോഗുകള്‍ മറ്റുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് പ്രയോജനപ്രദമായ ധാരാളം പോസ്റ്റുകള്‍ എഴുതുന്നു. 1986 –ല്‍ ഇദ്ദേഹവും മെക്കാനിക്കല്‍ എഞ്ചിനീയറായിരുന്ന ശ്രീ കെ.ജി നാരായണന്‍ നായരും ചേര്‍ന്ന് &lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df5b34xz_21hc8zvddt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ആദ്യമായി മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിലെത്തിക്കുന്ന ദൌത്യം&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; വിജയകരമായി നിറവേറ്റിയിരുന്നു. ഭാര്യ ചന്ദ്രിക. മകള്‍ ഭര്‍ത്താവും രണ്ട്‌ കുട്ടികളുമൊത്ത്‌ ഗുഡുഗ്ഗാവില്‍ താമസം, ന്യൂഡല്‍ഹിയില്‍ രണ്ടുപേര്‍ക്കും ജോലി. മകന്‍, യു.എസ്.എ.യില്‍ ഉപരിപഠനം കഴിഞ്ഞ്‌ ഭാര്യയുമൊത്ത്‌ ന്യൂജേര്‍സിയില്‍ താമസം, രണ്ടുപേര്‍ക്കും ന്യൂയോര്‍ക്കില്‍ ജോലി. ഔദ്ദ്യോഗിക ജീവിതം: 39 വര്‍ഷം. അതില്‍ 4 വര്‍ഷം സംസ്ഥാന സര്‍ക്കാരിന്റെ Internal Audit Board (currently RIAB) ല്‍ അതിന്റെ സ്ഥാപക സെക്രട്ടറിയായി പണി ചെതു. മറ്റൊരു 7 വര്‍ഷം അക്കൌണ്ടന്റ് ജനറല്‍ ഓഫീസില്‍ തിരിയെ പോയി സംസ്ഥാന സര്‍ക്കാരിന്റെ വരവുചെലവു കണക്കുകളും ബാലന്‍സ് ഷീറ്റും [Finance and Appropriation accounts] നിര്‍മ്മിക്കുന്നതിനു നേതൃത്വം കൊടുത്തു. അവസാനത്തെ 3 വര്‍ഷം വീണ്ടും സംസ്ഥാന സര്‍ക്കാരിലേക്ക്. അവിടുത്തെ ട്രഷറികള്‍ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറൈസ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിനു വേണ്ടി അഡിഷനല്‍ സെക്രട്ടറി പദവിക്ക് തുല്യമായ Systems Manager ആയിട്ടും പണിയെടുത്തു. ആ പദവിയിലിരുന്നുതന്നെ റിട്ടയറും ചെയ്തു. Institute of Public Auditors, India (IPAI) ലെ അംഗം. അതായത്, ഭാരതത്തിലെ ഏത് പൊതുമേഖലാ സ്ഥാപനത്തിലേയും കണക്കുകള്‍ പരിശോധിക്കുവാനന്‍ യോഗ്യന്‍.&lt;br /&gt;ഫോണ്‍ അങ്കിള്‍ : 0471 2360822&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://njjoju.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ചിന്തകള്‍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.koottam.com/forum/topics/784240:Topic:27185124"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;കൂട്ടം ഡിസ്കഷന്‍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://malayalam.webdunia.com/newsworld/news/keralanews/1101/10/1110110055_1.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;വെബ്‌ദുനിയാ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://malayalamvaayana.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_10.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;വായന&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gulfmalayaly.com/gulfmalayaly_news_in.php?id=9245"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ഗള്‍ഫ്‌മലയാളി&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://manojkmohan.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;സപര്യ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://keralablogacademy.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;കേരള ബ്ലോഗ് അക്കാദമി &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://kiranthompil.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;അനുഭവങ്ങള്‍ പാളിച്ചകള്‍ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://expressbuzz.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/%E2%80%98uncle%E2%80%99-logs-off-for-the-last-time/238681.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Expressbuzz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A എന്ന വട്ടിയൂര്‍ക്കാവ് ജംഷനില്‍ നിന്ന് B എന്ന് കാണിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നതിനടുത്താണ് അങ്കിളിന്റെ ചാന്ദിനി എന്ന വീട്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TSrnF1w78cI/AAAAAAAACR0/kJayMkSGIzs/s1600/Chandini.png"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560510777459995074" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TSrnF1w78cI/AAAAAAAACR0/kJayMkSGIzs/s400/Chandini.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;അമേരിക്കയില്‍നിന്ന് മകന്‍ എത്തിച്ചേര്‍ന്നു. 11-01-2011 ന്  രാവിലെ 9 മണിയ്ക്ക് മോര്‍ച്ചറിയില്‍നിന്ന് കൊണ്ടുവരുകയും 11.30 AM ന് തൈയ്ക്കാട് ശാന്തി കവാടത്തില്‍ സംസ്കാര ചടങ്ങുകള്‍ നടക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/TSrlAhiFCrI/AAAAAAAACRs/QI4vs7u0QdA/s1600/Chandini.png"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fchandrasekharan.nair%2Falbumid%2F5560827062946486945%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" height="267" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 670px; height: 502px;" src="http://api.ning.com/files/jMSaAswFum*mHXA4SoMqpYeIIZWv3JkrUSpR38lFnhsobtcQTmD9MRNQZpb0yMFgp77T*YlqsUjZm2feUCJvOFdCVfvGc4KQ/MF2002s204178.jpg?" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ചിത്രത്തിന് കടപ്പാട് കൂട്ടം.കോം&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിലെ അംഗങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന് &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;കൂട്ടത്തില്‍&lt;/span&gt; അംഗങ്ങളായിട്ടുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് ജൂലൈ പതിനൊന്നിന് വൈലോപ്പള്ളി സംസ്കൃതി ഭവനില്‍ നടക്കുന്ന - കൂട്ടം കേരള മീറ്റ് 2010 - ല്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കാം. കൂട്ടം ഗ്രൂപ്പിലെ അംഗങ്ങള്‍ തലക്കെട്ടിലെ ലിങ്കില്‍ ഞെക്കിയാല്‍ തങ്ങള്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നുണ്ടോ എന്ന അഭിപ്രായം രേഖപ്പെടുത്താന്‍ സാധിക്കും.&lt;br /&gt;തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിലെ അംഗങ്ങള്‍ ഈ പോസ്റ്റിന് താഴെയും പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന കാര്യം രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുമെന്ന് വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു.&lt;br /&gt;കൂട്ടം കേരളമീറ്റ് 2010 @ വൈലോപ്പള്ളി സംസ്കൃതി ഭവന്‍ ഒരു വിജയമാകട്ടെ എന്ന് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ പേരില്‍ ആശംസകള്‍ നേരുന്നു.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-296153395069583911?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.koottam.com/events/2010-11' title='കൂട്ടം കേരളമീറ്റ് ജൂലൈ 11 ന്'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/296153395069583911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=296153395069583911' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/296153395069583911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/296153395069583911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/06/11.html' title='കൂട്ടം കേരളമീറ്റ് ജൂലൈ 11 ന്'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-6258785662131528073</id><published>2010-05-16T17:40:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-17T19:50:46.125+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kerala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Water'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pollution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Channels'/><title type='text'>How to control the pollution of rivers and water channels in Kerala</title><content type='html'>The State Government has been spending vast amounts of funds for the periodic cleaning of the streams and rivers in Kerala to make them pollution free, without much success. The only way to keep all our waterways clean is to stop the inflow of dirty water from the houses through the drains and small streams into the rivers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first step should be to make the owners of properties astride the streams and rivers responsible for keeping the waterways in their land areas clean and punish those owners for any plastic or other material floating in the streams and rivers, as is being done in Singapore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next step is to introduce grease traps along all existing bathrooms, kitchens and washing places in each house and make this mandatory in towns and villages alike.  Factories could be forced to use recycled plastics for the manufacture of these grease traps of different sizes and shapes and sell them in the markets. Plumbers could then fit these traps outside each house to stop the polluted waters flowing into the rainwater drainage systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These grease traps could be opened up regularly and cleaned by the occupants of each house. The food particles and other waste materials taken out of these traps can be used as fertilizer for the plants and trees around their houses. Factories should have traps of larger dimensions installed to limit the pollution of the water outflows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A rough diagram of a small grease trap is attached, which could be easily mass produced in Kerala. By making such as system compulsory for each house, Kerala could become a model for other states to follow and the pollution of all our rivers and waterways could be greatly reduced in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Low income group house owners could improvise and make these traps with used plastic jerry cans to start with. This would be cost beneficial as well as a good way to use these used jerry cans which are currently being thrown out into rubbish dumps, as there are not sufficient accessible recycle facilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The outflows from the third jerry can in the grease trap shown below may also be used for watering the garden plants and trees. If charcoal is filled in the third can, the quality of water will be very good. The cans can be placed on the same level or on a sloping ground at convenient distances and connected with flexible pipe connections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This filtering system would allow the waste water from our houses to be less of a pollutant in our waterways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S_FQm6Hfl4I/AAAAAAAACDo/G3LPXZdIeuQ/s1600/Grease-Traps.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S_FQm6Hfl4I/AAAAAAAACDo/G3LPXZdIeuQ/s400/Grease-Traps.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472243651597801346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brig C.G Varghees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-6258785662131528073?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/6258785662131528073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=6258785662131528073' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6258785662131528073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6258785662131528073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-control-pollution-of-rivers-and.html' title='How to control the pollution of rivers and water channels in Kerala'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S_FQm6Hfl4I/AAAAAAAACDo/G3LPXZdIeuQ/s72-c/Grease-Traps.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-6886405317947284147</id><published>2010-05-09T09:13:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-09T15:12:09.963+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rape'/><title type='text'>Man held for abusing 6 year old girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S-Yvpql7TeI/AAAAAAAACCg/sSNATw75UD0/s1600/Rape.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S-Yvpql7TeI/AAAAAAAACCg/sSNATw75UD0/s400/Rape.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469111190342553058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetailNews1"&gt;THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:   A member of the Arakkulam panchayat in Idukki district has been  arrested for sexually abusing a six-year-old girl. The UKG student,  belonging to a Nepali family living in the Moolamattam Power House area  for the past 35 years, was abused by her neighbour Shaji Kadalikkadam, a  member of the Kerala Congress (M).The Child Welfare Committee  has registered a case under Section 23 of the Juvenile Justice Act.  Kanjaar Police said that Shaji was arrested on May 5 and was remanded to  judicial custody till May 19. The child was later produced before Prof  Kochuthresia, member of the Child Welfare Committee. The accused was  arrested based on the report of the medical officer of Taluk Hospital  which recorded bruises and infection on the child’s genital area. However,  the family of the child is afraid to continue with the case and plans  to return to Nepal. The child’s grandfather came to the State as a  labourer during the construction of the Idukki Dam in the ‘60s. Later he  joined the KSEB as security assistant. He preferred to stay in the  State after retirement for his granddaughter’s education.The  girl’s aunt first noticed something amiss when the child complained of  pain during bathing. To her questions, the girl revealed the horrible  picture of sexual abuse. Shaji, who has a criminal background according  to the Kanjaar Police, sexually abused the girl several times when she  visited his house to watch TV. Shaji had been absconding for a while  after the issue went public. However, he was arrested on May 5 by the  Kanjaar Police.The victim’s family consists of her grandfather,  grandmother, mother and two aunts. Her mother is a divorcee. The  Child Welfare Committee is planning to produce the accused before the  members. The Committee will submit a final report to the court after  hearing Shaji. A complaint has also been sent to the Kerala State  Women’s Commission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new Indian Express &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://expressbuzz.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/man-held-for-abusing-6-year-old-girl/172064.html"&gt;news on 09-05-21010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A start from&lt;a href="http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/attention-womens-commision.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; here&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-6886405317947284147?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/6886405317947284147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=6886405317947284147' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6886405317947284147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6886405317947284147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/man-held-for-abusing-6-year-old-girl.html' title='Man held for abusing 6 year old girl'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S-Yvpql7TeI/AAAAAAAACCg/sSNATw75UD0/s72-c/Rape.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-6673573156251504440</id><published>2010-05-07T15:40:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-09T08:35:50.770+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><title type='text'>This may happen again...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;  &lt;div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt;From:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10pt;"&gt; ************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sent:&lt;/b&gt; Monday, May 03, 2010 12:09 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;To:&lt;/b&gt; *******************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cc:&lt;/b&gt; ********************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Subject:&lt;/b&gt; Bad experience in TVM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Importance:&lt;/b&gt; High&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hi All,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I would like to share about a very bad experience happend to me on Sat night  about 8:15pm (01-05-10) near to Kariyavattom junction(near techno park) in  TVM.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I was on my way to have my dinner, hotel was near kazakkottam junction hence  i caught a bus to get down on the desired destination, however i forgot to take  my wallet so i got down from the bus paid the conductor the remaining change which was left in my pocket. On my way  back to  my room 3 people on bike suddenly rushed near me on bike pushed me down and started hitting me very badly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Their intention was to steal money , while two persons were manhandling me one was frantically checking my pockets for money as they found that i  have no money with me they left me lying on the road and rushed back to thier  vehicle. I was badly hurt and my mobile was also broken. I some how managed to get back to my room and scared to inform police as this  happend very near to my room and this may happen again...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;I want our mangement to make sure that this message reaches everyone hear,  alert and inform all to be cautious while coming out late in the evening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13px;"&gt;Regards,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:13px;"&gt;*********&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:10pt;color:black;"  &gt;By an enquiry through telephone I got a reply that in this case a complaint had been registered at police station Kazhakkoottam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;You can always call up the highway police at 9846100100 for help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another post &lt;a href="http://www.technoparktoday.com/technopark-engineer-injured-in-robbery-incident/comment-page-1/"&gt;TECHNOPARK ENGINEER INJURED IN ROBBERY INCIDENT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-6673573156251504440?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/6673573156251504440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=6673573156251504440' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6673573156251504440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6673573156251504440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-may-happen-again.html' title='This may happen again...'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-8470372945294322762</id><published>2010-05-07T14:54:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-07T15:34:46.876+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='അഡ്മിന്‍'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><title type='text'>ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ അഡ്മിന്‍ കേരളഫാര്‍മര്‍ അല്ല</title><content type='html'>സ്വന്തം അഭിപ്രായപ്രകടനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് അഡ്മിന്‍ പദവി ഒരലങ്കാരമല്ല മറിച്ച് അതൊരു ശാപമാണ്. എതിര്‍ ചേരിയിലുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് കരിഓയിലൊഴിക്കുവാനും ചെളി വാരി എറിയുവാനും മാത്രമേ അത് പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുകയുള്ളു. ഇതില്‍ നിന്ന് നാം മനസിലാക്കേണ്ടത് ഒരു ഗ്രൂപ്പിനെ നയിക്കുന്ന അഡ്മിനെ ഒളിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുവാന്‍ അവസരമൊരുക്കുകയും ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ സുഗമമായ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനത്തില്‍ മാത്രം ഇടപെടുകയും ചെയ്യുക എന്നുള്ളതാണ്. ഡോ. എം.വി. നായരെ അഡ്‌മിന്‍ ആക്കിയപ്പോള്‍ ആരോപണങ്ങളും ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യലും അദ്ദേഹത്തോടായി. അതിന് ശേഷം ഞാന്‍ സ്വയം അഡ്മിന്‍ ചുമതല ഏറ്റെടുത്ത് ബൂലോഗപ്രശസ്തനായി എന്ന് പറയുകയാവും ശരി. അതിന്റെ ഫലമായി ഔട്‌ലുക്ക്, ഖലീജ് ടെംസ്, ഡെക്കാണ്‍ ഹെറാള്‍ഡ്, ദാറ്റ്സ്‌മലയാളം, ഒമാന്‍ ഡയിലി ഒബ്സെര്‍വര്‍ എന്നീ മേഖലകളിലുള്ളവര്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ചേരുകയും ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ ശക്തി പകരുകയുമാണ് ചെയ്തത്. തമ്മില്‍ തര്‍ക്കങ്ങളുണ്ടാകുമ്പോള്‍ ചേരിതിരിഞ്ഞുള്ള അഭിപ്രായ പ്രകടനം നിയന്ത്രിക്കുവാന്‍ കഴിയാതെപോയത് ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ പരാജയങ്ങളില്‍ പ്രധാനം ആണ്. എന്നാല്‍ അതില്‍ നിന്ന് പാഠം ഉള്‍ക്കൊണ്ടുകൊണ്ട് തന്നെയാണ് പേരുവെളിപ്പെടുത്താത്ത യോഗ്യനായ ഒരു വ്യക്തി അഡ്മിന്‍ ചുമതല നിര്‍വഹിക്കാമെന്നേറ്റത്. പ്രസ്തുത വ്യക്തി യൂസര്‍ നെയിമും പാസ്വേര്‍ഡും മറ്റൊരാള്‍ക്ക് നല്‍കിയാല്‍ ഞാന്‍ പോലും അറിയില്ല അഡ്മിന്‍ ആരാണെന്ന്. കൂടാതെ പുതുതായി അംഗമായ എന്‍.ടി.വി ഡയറക്ടര്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ചേര്‍ന്നതോടെ മഹത്വം ഒരു പടികൂടി മന്നേറി എന്നതാണ് വാസ്തവം.&lt;br /&gt;പുതിയ അഡ്മിന്‍ ആംഗലേയവും, മലയാളവും ഭംഗിയായി കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക മാത്രമല്ല ഒരു മോഡറേറ്റര്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പിനെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും. അദ്ദേഹം നെറ്റില്‍ വരുന്ന സമയം പരിമിതമായതിനാല്‍ ഒരു ഉത്തരം വേഗത്തില്‍ ലഭിച്ചു എന്ന് വരില്ല. ഗ്രൂപ്പിലെ അച്ചടക്കം ആരോഗ്യകരമായ ചര്‍ച്ചകള്‍ക്കും അതിലൂടെ ഉരുത്തിരിയുന്ന നിര്‍ദ്ദേശങ്ങള്‍ക്കും അനിവാര്യമാണ്. കെ.പി. സുകുമാരന്‍ എന്ന ബ്ലോഗര്‍ ന്യൂ ഇന്‍ഡ്യന്‍ എക്സ്പ്രസില്‍ ഇട്ട കമെന്റ് ഇതായിരുന്നു. പൂര്‍ത്തീകരിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയാത്ത കമെന്റ് ഇവിടെ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തട്ടെ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ട്രിവാന്‍ഡ്രം ബ്ലോഗേര്‍സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിലെ പ്രശ്നങ്ങള്‍ മാറി നിന്ന്  ശ്രദ്ധിക്കുന്നുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. നമ്മുടേത് ജനാധിപത്യ സമ്പ്രദായം അംഗീകരിച്ച  ഒരു രാജ്യമാണ്. ആരും ഇവിടെ വിമര്‍ശനത്തിന് അതീതരല്ല. പൊതുരംഗത്ത്  പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്ന ആരും വിമര്‍ശനങ്ങള്‍ സഹിച്ചേ പറ്റൂ. ആ നിലയ്ക്ക്  പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയും രാഹുല്‍ ഗാന്ധിയും ശശി തരൂരും ഒക്കെ  വിമര്‍ശിക്കപ്പെടുന്നതില്‍ ഒട്ടും അപാകതയില്ല. അങ്ങനെ  വിമര്‍ശിക്കപ്പെടുമ്പോഴും അവരൊക്കെ അനേകരാല്‍ ബഹുമാനിക്കപ്പെടുന്നവര്‍  കൂടിയാണെന്ന വസ്തുത വിമര്‍ശകര്‍ ഓര്‍ക്കേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. അല്ലാത്ത പക്ഷം  ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന് അര്‍ത്ഥമില്ലാതായിപോകും. വിമര്‍ശിക്കാനുപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഭാഷ  മാന്യമായിരിക്കണം എന്നത് ജനാധിപത്യസംസ്ക്കാരത്തിന്റെ മുന്നുപാധിയാണ്.   ഇവിടെ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയെയും രാഹുല്‍ ഗാന്ധിയെയും തരൂരിനെയും വിമര്‍ശിക്കാന്‍  ഉപയോഗിച്ച ഭാഷ ഇ.എം.എസ്സിനെയോ പിണറായിയെയോ വിമര്‍ശിക്കാന്‍  ഉപയോഗിച്ചിരുന്നുവെങ്കില്‍ എന്താകുമായിരുന്നു അവസ്ഥ? മാത്രമല്ല അത്തരം ഭാഷ  പിണറായിക്കെതിരെ ഉപയോഗിക്കുകയാണെങ്കില്‍ പോലും അതിനെ എതിര്‍ക്കാനുള്ള  ധാര്‍മ്മികബാധ്യത ഓരോ ജനാധിപത്യവാദിക്കുമുണ്ട്.   ഏതൊരു ഗ്രൂപ്പും സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ ഒരു പരിഛേദമ &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-8470372945294322762?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/8470372945294322762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=8470372945294322762' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/8470372945294322762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/8470372945294322762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_07.html' title='ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ അഡ്മിന്‍ കേരളഫാര്‍മര്‍ അല്ല'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-3584390290774343211</id><published>2010-05-05T09:19:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-05T12:40:05.318+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trivandrum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Asha P Nair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Expressbuzz'/><title type='text'>Now, the dirty war enters blogdom</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe src="http://d13.zedo.com/OzoDB/cutils/R48_1/jsc/791/zpu.html?f=;z=2-110" style="position: absolute; border: 0px none;" frameborder="0" height="0" scrolling="no" width="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;!-- end ZEDO for channel: Expressbuzz_Story_top_300x250 , publisher: default , Ad Dimension: Medium Rectangle - 300 x 250 --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;script language="JavaScript" src="http://ventuno.in/mrss/ventuno_rv.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://174.129.31.98/ventuno/relatedvideo/popup.js?v=0.05"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;!-- related video js code ends--&gt;                                 &lt;div style="float: left; width: 330px; margin-bottom: 5px;"&gt;News Courtesy &lt;a href="http://expressbuzz.com/biography/now-the-dirty-war-enters-blogdom/170886.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Expessbuzz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;div style="float: left; width: 330px; margin-bottom: 1px;" class="time"&gt;&lt;a href="http://expressbuzz.com/searchresult/asha-p.-nair" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_AliasName"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblAliasName"&gt;Asha P. Nair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                           &lt;div id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_dvFirstPublished" style="float: left; width: 330px; margin-bottom: 4px;" class="time"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblfirstpublish"&gt;First Published : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblPublishedDate"&gt;05 May 2010 05:12:00 AM  IST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;                     &lt;div id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_dvLastUpdate" style="float: left; width: 330px; margin-bottom: 4px; display: none;" class="time"&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lbllastUpdate"&gt;Last  Updated : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblModifiedDate"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetailNews1"&gt;Politics -  the omnipotent presence - has conquered the blogosphere too: where we  thought ideas mattered and creativity reigned.In a bizarre  instance, the Trivandrum Bloggers Group, which has more than 150  members, is witnessing a warfare - a decayed version of Congress-CPM  fight- that has almost taken the matters to the Kerala Police’s cyber  cell.Already eight bloggers have been thrown out of the group by  the administrator (who is the owner of the group as per Google rules)  and the admin himself claims to have resigned his role and handed over  the seat to an ‘unknown’ admin. The thrown-aways are learnt to have met  and decided to move the cyber cell against the admin. Things unheard of  before.A lens eye would reveal politics as the villain. The  discord had actually stemmed out of the Lavalin issue, grown with the  fanfare that Tharoor won in the group and branched out with every  Tharoor-Pinarayi-posts.The latest fight had, however, begun with a  member, Pratheesh, using foul language against Rahul Gandhi and the  Prime Minister while referring to the phone tapping issue. The admin,  S.Chandrasekharan Nair (Kerala Farmer) reprimanded him, but things only  turned worse and ended with the admin ousting Pratheesh and Riyad (who  had supported Pratheesh in his arguments).The group suddenly  turned alive. The discussion thread grew long with members, many of whom  had been passive till then, joining the fray. At the end of the  discussions, the group saw seven others too being thrown out.  Interestingly, four of them are journalists. Varun Ramesh, Sebin, Anu  Warrier, Antony Boban, Mayoora, Anandan and Santhosh Kumar were the  bloggers ousted. Santhosh was, however, taken back later.‘’It is  the bossy attitude of the admin which has resulted in the split. You may  be young or old and pursuing different jobs, but in the blogosphere,  what matters is your opinion. We are not talking about individuals,  instead we argue on concepts and ideas. A group of individuals cannot  dictate the general opinion of a group, which is what has happened  here,’’ says T C Rajesh, a returnee to the group after he resigned a  couple of months before alleging negative ambience in the group.Chandrakumar  (blogger name Uncle), who often dons the role of trouble-shooter in  times of dispute, says: ‘’It is basically a matter of intolerance.  Political divides must not be reflected in a group, but sadly, it has  dominated the group.’’ He has stopped playing the mediator.The  group, which was started three years ago, strains to remember a healthy  discussion that has happened for sometime now. Pratheesh, allegedly a  staunch Pinarayi-fan, had snatched the issue to combat Kerala Farmer, a  loyal Tharoor-fan, going by the comments of many bloggers. Posts  supporting Tharoor were pouring in during the IPL controversy and  Tharoor himself had expressed his gratitude to the group for supporting  him. That, obviously, was indigestible to CPM-fellow travellers in the  group. With many Left-loyalists taking sides of the ousted members, the  split was only natural.‘’Democracy has taken a new meaning in the  group- keep your mouth shut. The negative vibes emanating from several  bloggers are killing the spirit of blogging,’’ says a blogger. It,  however, cannot be brushed away that 15 new members have joined the  group recently.Latest, the rebels met and are toying with the  idea of taking the matter to the cyber cell. On the other hand, the  admin says problems have ended. ‘’I only followed the Google laws which  says admin is the owner of the group. True, I am a Tharoor supporter.  That’s because I value the education and experience of a leader who has  had international exposure,’’ he says.The new admin, however, is  unknown to the group. ‘’There is a tendency to irritate the admin and  create problems. So, for the time being, admin is better left  unidentified,’’ Kerala Farmer says.Opposition group points out  that this exactly is the authoritarian attitude that they are against.  It only remains to be seen if another party..oops..group will be formed  by the rebels or whether they decide to merge once again.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetailNews1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ashapnair@expressbuzz.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-3584390290774343211?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/3584390290774343211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=3584390290774343211' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3584390290774343211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3584390290774343211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/now-dirty-war-enters-blogdom.html' title='Now, the dirty war enters blogdom'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-1034367996972038755</id><published>2010-05-03T06:10:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-09T09:17:53.420+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rape'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nepal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='KSEB'/><title type='text'>Attention - Womens Commision</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;To&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Office   Address&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kerala Womens Commission&lt;/strong&gt; ,&lt;br /&gt;Near Lourdes  Church,P.M.G ,&lt;br /&gt;Pattom P.O ,&lt;br /&gt;Thiruvananthapuram- 4 ,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phone:  0471-2302590,2300509,2307589,&lt;wbr&gt;2309878 ,&lt;br /&gt;Email : &lt;span style="color: rgb(21, 95, 194);"&gt;  &lt;a href="mailto:keralawomenscommission@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank"&gt;keralawomenscommission@yahoo.&lt;wbr&gt;co.in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last day a &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;5 year girl&lt;/span&gt; in our Powerhouse premises was &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;brutally raped&lt;/span&gt;  by her neighbour. She is the grand daughter of an old man from Nepal who has been  serving as a Security Asistant in KSEB&lt;br /&gt;His daughter, ( the victim child's mother) was separated and now  living with&lt;br /&gt;him . She is a woman with a slight mental retardation. The most horrifying thing in this story is that The Man who  raped the child , &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Mr. Shaji Kadalikkadan&lt;/span&gt; is one of the  ward Counselors  of  Arakkulam Panchayath and  is a local leader of  The Congres party.  He is now in some unknown hideout. He also have wife and a daughter  of the same age. Often the victim child was caressed by this man and no one  suspected him. It is suspected that the local congress leadership is trying  to  protect the culprit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can directly get more details from Mr. PB Gopakumar,  (State Committee Member. KSEBWA)  Ph:  9495513767&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Please dont neglect this issue &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;02-05-2010 (A message received from a member of this Group)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Continue to &lt;a href="http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/man-held-for-abusing-6-year-old-girl.html"&gt;Read&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-1034367996972038755?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/1034367996972038755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=1034367996972038755' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1034367996972038755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1034367996972038755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/05/attention-womens-commision.html' title='Attention - Womens Commision'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-4188596928790892248</id><published>2010-05-02T15:07:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-03T04:36:49.744+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാഗ്ദാനങ്ങള്‍'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='എം.പി'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='തരൂര്‍'/><title type='text'>ഡോ. തരൂരിന് നിറവേറ്റാന്‍ കഴിയാതെപോയ മൂന്ന് വാഗ്ദാനങ്ങള്‍</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;൧. ഓരോ അസംബ്ലി മണ്ഡലത്തിലും രാഷ്ട്രീയക്കാരനല്ലാത്ത ഒരു വ്യക്തിയെ പരാതികേള്‍ക്കാനായി നിയോഗിക്കും.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;സ്വന്തം പാര്‍ട്ടിതന്നെ അനുവദിക്കാതെ പുറംതള്ളപ്പെട്ട ഒരു വാഗ്ദാനമായിരുന്നു അത്. അപ്രകാരം സാധ്യമായിരുന്നു എങ്കില്‍ പരാതിക്കാരനും കേട്ടവ്യക്തിയും മാത്രമേ അത് അറിയുകയുള്ളു. ഇന്നത്തെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ സെറ്റപ്പില്‍ നിന്ന് വളരെ വ്യത്യാസം അതിന് വരുത്താന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞെന്നും വരില്ല. അതേസമയം ഡോ. തരൂരും കൂടി ഉള്‍പ്പെട്ട ഒരു ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ഒരു വ്യക്തി സമര്‍പ്പിക്കുന്ന പരാതിയോ പരിഭവമോ തരൂരിലെത്തിക്കുവാന്‍ സംവിധാനമുണ്ട്.&lt;/span&gt; തരൂരിന്റെ ഓഫീസിലെ ശ്രീ ശരത്തിന്റെ നിര്‍ദ്ദേശാനുസരണം ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ അംഗമാക്കപ്പെട്ട ശ്രീ പ്രവീണ്‍ ആ പരാതി യൂണിക്കോഡ് മലയാളത്തിലാണെങ്കില്‍പ്പോലും അത് വായിക്കുകയും തരൂരിന്റെ ശ്രദ്ധയില്‍പ്പെടുത്തുകയും ചെയ്യും. ഒരു എം.പി എന്ന നിലയില്‍ അദ്ദേഹത്തിന് പരിഹരിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയുന്ന വിഷയമാണെങ്കില്‍ പരിഹരിക്കപ്പെടും എന്ന് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കാം. ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ മലയാളത്തില്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്നതും തരൂരിന് അറിയുവാനുള്ള മാര്‍ഗം ഉണ്ട് എന്നതാണ് വാസ്തവം. "എനിക്ക് പാര്‍ലമെന്റില്‍ ആംഗലേയവും ഹിന്ദിയും കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യാന്‍ അറിയാം" എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ ഡോ. തരൂര്‍ തന്നെ അദ്ദേഹത്തിന് മലയാളം വായിക്കാനറിയില്ലെങ്കിലും വായിക്കാനറിയാവുന്ന ആളെ ചുമതലപ്പെടുത്തിയത് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിന് കിട്ടിയ ഒരു അനുഗ്രഹമാണ്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;൨. തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തെ എം.പി എന്ന നിലയില്‍ മൊത്തം ആളുകളുടെയും പ്രതിനിധിയാണ്.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഭാരതത്തിലെ എല്ലാ പാര്‍ട്ടികളും ഇപ്രകാരം തന്നെ പറയും. ആരും തന്നെ അത് നടപ്പിലാക്കുവാന്‍ അനുവദിക്കില്ല. അണികളെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കുന്ന തുക്കട നേതാക്കള്‍ മുതല്‍ തട്ടുതട്ടുകളായി നിയന്ത്രിക്കപ്പെടുകയാണ് ചെയ്യുന്നത്. ഡോ. മന്‍മോഹന്റെയും സോണിയാഗാന്ധിയുടെയും പിന്തുണയോടെ സ്ഥാനാര്‍ത്ഥിയാകുവാന്‍ അവസരം ലഭിച്ച തരൂരിന് അതേ പോലെതന്നെ ഇന്റെര്‍ നെറ്റിലൂടെയും എല്ലാ വീഭാഗക്കാരും ഉള്‍പ്പെട്ട ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിനെ ഉള്‍ക്കൊള്ളുവാന്‍ കഴിയും അവരുടെ പിന്തുണയുണ്ടെങ്കില്‍. പരമാധികാരമില്ലാത്ത ഒരു അഡ്മിനായിരുന്നു ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ ടേംസ് ഓഫ് സര്‍വ്വീസ് വായിച്ച് മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നതുവരെ. ഇനി വേണമെങ്കില്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പിനെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കുവാന്‍ ഉടമയോടൊപ്പം അഡ്മിന്‍ എന്ന ഈ മെയില്‍ ഐഡിയില്‍ ഒരാളെ നിയോഗിക്കാനും കഴിയും.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;൩. ജയിച്ചുകഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ ഇന്റെര്‍ നെറ്റിന്റെ സഹായത്താല്‍ സൈറ്റ്, മൈക്രോബ്ലോഗിംഗ് എന്നിവ രഹസ്യ സ്വഭാവമില്ലാത്ത കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാന്‍ വിനിയോഗിക്കും.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;തുടക്കം മുതല്‍തന്നെ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ ഒതുക്കുവാന്‍ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്ന ഒരുകൂട്ടം നേതാക്കള്‍ സ്വന്തം പാര്‍ട്ടിയില്‍ത്തന്നെയുള്ളപ്പോള്‍ പ്രതിപക്ഷത്തിന്റെ കാര്യം പറയാനുണ്ടോ? ഒന്നിനുപുറകേ ഓരോന്നായി വിവാദങ്ങളെ തരണം ചെയ്യുമ്പോഴും നമ്മെപ്പോലുള്ളവര്‍ ഭയപ്പെടുന്നത് രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തില്‍ ഇദ്ദേഹം വന്നുചേര്‍ന്നപോലെ വലിച്ചെറിഞ്ഞിട്ട് സ്ഥലം വിട്ടുകളയുമോ എന്നാണ്. അത് അനുവദിക്കരുത് എന്നതിന് ഉദാഹരണങ്ങളാണ് ഏഴരലക്ഷത്തിന് മുകളിലുള്ള അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ട്വിറ്ററിലെ ഫോളോവേഴ്സ്. മുഴുവന്‍ ഫോളോവേഴ്സും സപ്പോര്‍ട്ടേഴ്സ് അല്ല എന്നും നമുക്കറിയാം. മാത്രവുമല്ല അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ കഴിവുകളില്‍ വിശ്വാസമുള്ളവരാണ് വ്യക്തിഗത പിന്തുണയില്‍ ഡോ. തരൂരിന് പിന്തുണയുമായി സപ്പോര്‍ട്ട്തരൂര്‍ ഡോട് ഓര്‍ഗില്‍ പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുന്നത്. ഇത്രയും ട്രാന്‍സ്‌പാരന്റായി കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യുന്ന ഒരു എം.പിയും ഭാരതത്തിലില്ല എന്നാണ് നമുക്ക് മനസ്സിലാക്കുവാന്‍ കഴിയുക. ഡോ. തരൂരിന്റെ ഒരു ട്വീറ്റ് കൊണ്ട് റയിവേട്രാക്കില്‍ അപകടം സംഭവിച്ച ഒരു പെണ്‍കുട്ടിക്ക് സഹായങ്ങളെത്തിക്കാന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞത് ആരും മറന്നുകാണില്ല. ഒരു പണപ്പിരിവോ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ഫണ്ടിന്റെ വിനിയോഗമോ വേണ്ടിവന്നില്ല.&lt;br /&gt;മറ്റ് പാര്‍ട്ടികളില്‍ നിന്ന് നേതാക്കളെ നമുക്ക് ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിലേക്ക് സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യാം.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-4188596928790892248?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/4188596928790892248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=4188596928790892248' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='അറിയിപ്പ്'/><title type='text'>പുതുതായി ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ വരുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് ഒരു അറിയിപ്പ്</title><content type='html'>ഇന്നുമുതല്‍ അംഗങ്ങളെ ചേര്‍ക്കുന്നതിന്റെയും നീക്കം ചെയ്യുന്നതിന്റെയും പൂര്‍ണ ഉത്തരവാദിത്വം അഡ്മിന്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് ഓണറില്‍ മാത്രം നിക്ഷിപ്തമായിരിക്കുന്നതാണ്. പുതിയ അംഗങ്ങള്‍ ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ചേരാന്‍ വരുമ്പോള്‍ അഡ്മിന് ആ വ്യക്തിയെ  പരിചയം ഇല്ല എങ്കില്‍ ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് അംഗങ്ങളുമായി ആലോചിച്ച് മാത്രമേ അംഗത്വം നല്‍കുകയുള്ളു. ഇവിടെനിന്ന് നീക്കം ചെയ്ത അംഗങ്ങളെപ്പറ്റി ഇനി ഒരു സംവാദമോ ത്രെഡോ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ പാടില്ല. ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് ഗൂഗിളിന്റെ ടേംസ് ഓഫ് സര്‍വ്വീസ് പ്രകാരം അഡ്മിന് അനുവദിച്ചുകിട്ടിയിട്ടുള്ള ഒരു ഭവനമാണ്. അപേക്ഷിച്ച് അംഗമാകുന്ന വ്യക്തി അഡ്മിന് അനുയോജ്യനല്ല എന്നു കണ്ടാല്‍ യാതൊരു മുന്നറിയിപ്പോ വിശദീകരണമോ കൂടാതെ നീക്കം ചെയ്യുന്നതായിരിക്കും. ഈ ഭവനത്തിന്റെ ചുറ്റുമതില്‍ പ്രോഗ്രസീവായ ത്രെഡുകള്‍ അംഗങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് പതിക്കുവാനുള്ളതാണ്. പ്രസ്തുത ത്രെഡില്‍ മറ്റ് അംഗങ്ങളും പങ്കെടുത്ത് ആരോഗ്യകരമായ രീതിയില്‍ മുന്നോട്ട് നയിക്കണം എന്ന് അഭ്യര്‍ത്ഥിക്കുന്നു. ആബാലവൃദ്ധം ബ്ലോഗര്‍മാര്‍ അടങ്ങുന്ന ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ വ്യക്തിഹത്യയും സഭ്യമല്ലാത്ത ഭാഷാപ്രയോഗവും അനുവദിക്കുന്നതല്ല. അഡ്മിന്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ ഗൂഗിള്‍ അനുവദിച്ചുതന്നിട്ടുള്ള ചട്ടങ്ങള്‍ മറികടന്നതായി കണ്ടാല്‍ അഡ്മിനെ അറിക്കണമെന്ന് ഓരോ അംഗത്തോടും അപേക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. ഓരോ അംഗത്തിനും ഏത് രാഷ്ട്രീയ പാര്‍ട്ടിയിലും വിശ്വസിക്കുവാനും പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുവാനും ഉള്ള സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം ഉണ്ട്. പക്ഷെ കക്ഷി രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിന്റെ പേരില്‍ ഒരു തമ്മില്‍ പോര്  ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ അനുവദിക്കുന്നതല്ല. ഗൂഗിളിന്റെ നിബന്ധനകള്‍ അംഗീകരിക്കാന്‍ തയ്യാറല്ലാത്തവര്‍ക്ക് സ്വയം പിരിഞ്ഞുപോകാവുന്നതാണ്. മുതിര്‍ന്ന പൌരന്മാരായ വ്യക്തികളെ ബഹുമാന സൂചകമായ രീതിയിലല്ലാതെ സമപ്രായക്കാര്‍ക്കൊപ്പം തേജോവധം ചെയ്യുവാന്‍ അനുവദിക്കുന്നതല്ല.&lt;br /&gt;വിയോജിപ്പുള്ളവര്‍ ഗൂഗിളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെടേണ്ടതും നിബന്ധനകളില്‍ മാറ്റം വരുത്തിക്കുവാന്‍ ശ്രമിക്കേണ്ടതാണ്. ശ്രീ കെ. ഗോവിന്ദന്‍കുട്ടി, ശ്രീ ബി.ആര്‍.പി ഭാസ്കര്‍, ശ്രീ ചന്ദ്രകുമാര്‍ (ഇദ്ദേഹം അനുസരണയുള്ള അംഗമായി മാത്രമേ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുകയുള്ളു എന്നാണ് അറിയിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളത്), ശ്രീ സി.എന്‍.ആര്‍ നായര്‍, ശ്രീ ബാലാനന്ദന്‍ എന്നിവരെ ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ സുഗമമായ നടത്തിപ്പിന് മേല്‍നോട്ടം വഹിക്കുന്നതിനായി ചുമതലപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ശ്രീ ശ്രീകണ്ഠകുമാരപിള്ള  സാങ്കേതിക സഹായം കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യുന്നതായിരിക്കും.  അവരുടെ നല്ല നിര്‍ദ്ദേശങ്ങള്‍ ത്രെഡ് ആയി ഇടാന്‍ കഴിയാത്തത് അഡ്മിന്റെ പേഴ്സണല്‍ മെയിലില്‍ അയക്കേണ്ടതാണ്. ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യേണ്ടത് ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്യേണ്ടതാണ്. പേഴ്സ്സണല്‍ മെയിലില്‍ അയക്കുന്നവ വെളിപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതല്ല. നല്ല നിര്‍ദ്ദേശങ്ങള്‍ അഡ്മിന്‍ ഒരു മുന്നറിയിപ്പും കൂടാതെ നടപ്പിലാക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും.&lt;br /&gt;ആദരണീയനായ ഡോ. എം.വി നായര്‍ ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ ഗൈഡ് ആയിരിക്കും. അദ്ദേഹത്തെ എല്ലാ അംഗങ്ങളും ബഹുമാനിക്കണം എന്ന് അപേക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. ഇപ്രകാരം ഉള്ള നിബന്ധനകള്‍ അനുസരിച്ചകൊണ്ട് ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ സന്മനസ്സുള്ളവര്‍ മാത്രം തുടര്‍ന്നാല്‍ മതി എന്നാണ് അഡ്മിന്റെ അന്തിമമായ തീരുമാനം. അഡ്മിന്‍ എന്ന നിലയില്‍ ഒരംഗത്തോടും അപമര്യാദയായി പെരുമാറുകയില്ല എന്ന് ഉറപ്പുതരുന്നു. എല്ലാപേരും ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ സുഗമമായ നടത്തിപ്പിനായി സഹകരിക്കും എന്ന് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു.&lt;br /&gt;എസ്. ചന്ദ്രശേഖരന്‍ നായര്‍ (കേരളഫാര്‍മര്‍) - അഡ്മിന്‍ chandrasekharan.nair@gmail.com Ph. 919447183033&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Group Owner's Rights and Responsibilities. &lt;/span&gt;Group Owners have additional capabilities and responsibilities in regard to the members and Content of a Group. 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തേടിയെടുത്ത് പ്രദര്‍ശിപ്പിക്കേണ്ടി വന്നു. ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ പേരും പറഞ്ഞ് അതും ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടു. അതിന് ശേഷം ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനത്തിന് ചിലരുടെ സഭ്യമല്ലാത്ത ഭാഷാ പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും, വ്യക്തി ഹത്യയും സഹിക്കാവുന്നതിനപ്പുറം കടന്നപ്പോള്‍ അവരുടെ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങള്‍ മോഡറേറ്റ് ചെയ്യപ്പെട്ടു.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;എനിയ്ക്ക് പറ്റിയ പരാജയം അംഗങ്ങളുടെ ലിസ്റ്റ് എല്ലാ അംഗങ്ങള്‍ക്കും കാണത്തക്ക വിധം പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചതും അഡ്മിന്‍ ഞാനാണെന്ന് മനസിലാക്കാന്‍ അവസരം കൊടുത്തതുമാണ്. എഫ്ഇസിയിലെ മോഡറേറ്റര്‍ സാജന്‍ സര്‍ പറഞ്ഞപോലെ ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് ഞാന്‍ തുടങ്ങിയത് കുറെ ഉദ്ദേശ ലക്ഷ്യങ്ങളോടെ ആയിരുന്നു. എന്നാല്‍ ഇന്നത് ആ ലക്ഷ്യങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന് അകന്ന് സ്വതന്ത്ര ചിന്താഗതിക്കാരായ കുറെയധികം സുമനസുകളുടെ കൂട്ടായ്മയി മാറി. അഷറഫ് പദ്ദണ്ണയെപ്പോലെ പ്രസ് ക്ലബില്‍ അംഗമായ ഒരു വ്യക്തി എന്നെ നേരിട്ട് വിളിച്ച് ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ നടക്കുന്ന   ചര്‍ച്ചകള്‍ അലോസരപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു എന്ന് പറയുമ്പോള്‍ ഞാന്‍ നിസ്സഹായനായി മാറുകയായിരുന്നു പതിവ്. കാരണം ആംഗലേയ പാണ്ഡിത്യം കുറവായതുകാരണം യുക്തമായ രീതിയില്‍ കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യുന്നതില്‍ പലപ്പോഴും പരാജയപ്പെട്ടു. അഡ്മിന്‍ അംഗവും കൂടി ആയപ്പോള്‍ സ്വന്തം അഭിപ്രായം പറയുവാന്‍ അവകാശവുമില്ലാത്ത ഒരംഗമായി മാറിപ്പോയി കേരളഫാര്‍മര്‍ എന്ന ഞാന്‍​.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഇപ്പോള്‍ അതിന് മാറ്റം വന്നിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇത്രയും നാള്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ പ്രതികരിക്കാതിരുന്ന മയൂര അലമ്പുണ്ടാക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് പിന്തുണയുമായി രംഗത്തെത്തി. അവസാനം അഡ്മിന്റെ പേര് പറഞ്ഞില്ല എങ്കില്‍ ഞാന്‍ തന്തയില്ലാത്തവനാണ് എന്ന നിലവരെ ആയി. അപ്പോഴാണഅ അഡ്മിന്റെ അനുവാദം വാങ്ങാതെതന്നെ ഡോ. എം.വി. നായരെ അഡ്മിനാക്കിയത് പരസ്യപ്പെടുത്തിയത്. സ്വന്തമായി അഭിപ്രായങ്ങള്‍ ഉണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ അതിന്റേതായ രീതിയില്‍ പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കാനും ഗ്രൂപ്പിനെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കാനും പുതിയ അഡ്മിനായി ഡോ. എം. വേലായുധന്‍ നായര്‍ (മുന്‍ ആര്‍ക്കിയോളജി ഡയറക്ടര്‍​)  ചുമതലയേറ്റു. പിന്നീടാണറിയുന്നത് ഗ്രൂപ്പിലെ സജീവ സാന്നിധ്യം അജയ് പ്രസാദ് എം.വി നായരുടെ സണ്‍ ഇന്‍ ലായാണെന്ന്. ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിലേക്ക് പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി ഇത്രേം ചെറ്റയാണോ എന്ന് പോസ്റ്റിട്ട പ്രതീഷ് പ്രകാശിനും അഡ്മിനെതിരെ ഒളിയമ്പുകള്‍ എയ്ത റിയാദിനും ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ സ്ഥാനമില്ല എന്നുമാത്രമല്ല അലുമ്പുണ്ടാക്കുന്നവരുടെ എല്ലാം കമെന്റുകളും മോഡറേറ്റ് ചെയ്യപ്പെടും എന്നതാണ് ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ തീരുമാനം. മാന്യമായ ഭാഷയിലും വ്യക്തി ഹത്യ നടത്താതെയും വരുന്നവ മാത്രമേ അത്തരക്കാരില്‍ നിന്ന് വെളിച്ചം കാണൂ. അല്ലാതെ ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍നിന്ന് നീക്കിയവരെ തിരിച്ചെടുക്കൂ ഞങ്ങള്‍ അവിടെ വന്നു കാട്ടിത്തരാം എന്ന് ഭീഷണിപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന സെബിനെപ്പോലുള്ളവര്‍ വെളിയില്‍ക്കിടന്ന് കുരക്കുകയേ ഉള്ളു. പക്ഷെ അവര്‍ക്കെല്ലാം ഇവിടെ നടക്കുന്ന ആരോഗ്യകരമായ ചര്‍ച്ചകളുടെ മെയിലുകള്‍ ലഭിച്ചുകൊണ്ടേ ഇരിക്കും. പദ്ദണ്ണ കുറെ പത്രപ്രവര്‍ത്തകരെക്കൂടി ഇവിടേക്ക് ക്ഷണിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. തരൂരിനെ വന്‍ ഭൂരിപക്ഷത്തില്‍ ജയിപ്പിച്ച സ്വതന്ത്ര ചിന്താഗതിക്കാര്‍ കൂടി ഉള്‍പ്പെട്ട ഒരു കൂട്ടായ്മ കൂടിയാണിത്.&lt;br /&gt;ഹര്‍ത്താലിനെതിരെ പ്രതികരിക്കുവാനും വേണ്ടി വന്നാല്‍ അടുത്ത ഹര്‍ത്താല്‍ ദിനത്തില്‍ നേരിട്ട് സേവനങ്ങളുമായി രംഗത്തിറങ്ങുവാനും ചിലര്‍ ഒത്തുചേര്‍ന്നെന്നും വരും. അര്‍ദ്ധ സത്യങ്ങള്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്ന കേരളവാച്ചുപോലുള്ള സൈറ്റിന്റെ നടത്തിപ്പുകാര്‍ എന്തിനിവിടെ അലമ്പുണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ ശ്രമിക്കുന്നു. വരുണ്‍ രമേശ്  അഡ്മിനെതിരെയുള്ള കമെന്റുകളുമായി ഓടുന്നു. നടക്കില്ല സുഹൃത്തുക്കളെ ഞങ്ങളുടെ ഇടയില്‍. കഴിഞ്ഞദിവസം സണ്‍ഡേ ഇന്‍ഡ്യനില്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കാനെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ് ഫോണില്‍ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് തരൂരിന്റെ വാഗ്ദാനങ്ങള്‍ എന്തൊക്കെ ആയിരുന്നു എന്ന് അനു വാര്യര്‍ ചോദിച്ചത് സദുദ്ദേശത്തോടെയല്ല എന്നെനിക്കറിയാം.  എന്റെ വായില്‍ നിന്ന് വീഴുന്നത് വെച്ച് തരൂരിനെ എന്റെ ശത്രു ആക്കണം. അതും നടക്കില്ല സുഹൃത്തേ.&lt;br /&gt;സിഎന്‍ആര്‍ നായരെപ്പോലെ ഗൂഗിള്‍ മാപ്പിംഗില്‍ പ്രാവീണ്യമുള്ള വ്യക്തിയും, കുറെനാളുകളായി അകന്നുനിന്ന കെജികെയും, മുന്‍ കേന്ദ്രമന്ത്രി എസ്.കൃഷ്ണകുമാറും, ശശി തരൂര്‍ എംപിയും, സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ഖജനാവ് ചോര്‍ച്ച കണ്ടെത്തുന്ന ചന്ദ്രകുമാറും, ബിആര്‍​പിയും, പ്രസിദ്ധ ഗൈനോക്കോളജിസ്റ്റും ചരിത്രസത്യങ്ങളുടെ രചയിതാവായ ഡോ. കാനം ശങ്കരപ്പിള്ളയും,  പ്രസ്തുത ട്രിവാന്‍ഡ്രം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് എന്ന കൂട്ടായ്മ ശക്തിയും പ്രസിദ്ധിയും കൈവരിക്കും എന്ന കാര്യത്തില്‍ സംശയമുണ്ടോ? കേരള സര്‍ക്കാരിന്റെ കീഴില്‍ അന്തരിച്ച ലാറി ബേക്കര്‍ ഇരുന്ന കസേരയില്‍ ഇരിക്കുന്ന ഡോ. എം.വി നായര്‍ ഞങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് "&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ശശി തരൂര്‍ പാര്‍ട്ടിയുടെ അസെറ്റ് ആണെന്ന്&lt;/span&gt;" പറഞ്ഞ രാഹുല്‍ ഗാന്ധിയെപ്പോലെ ഞങ്ങളും പറയും ഡോ. എം.വി. നായര്‍ തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പിന്റെ അസെറ്റ് ആണെന്ന്. ഇവിടെ അലമ്പുണ്ടാക്കിയിട്ട് മാന്യന്മാര്‍ ചമയുന്ന ചിലര്‍ എഫ്ഇസിയില്‍ മര്യാദക്കാരാണ്. കെജികെക്കെതിരെ സെബന്‍ സഭ്യതയില്ലാത്തരീതിയില്‍ പ്രതികരിച്ച അവസരത്തിലാണ് രാജേഷ് ടിസി ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ശശി തരൂര്‍ വിഷയങ്ങള്‍ മാത്രമോ ഉള്ളോ എന്നാരോപിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് പരിഞ്ഞുപോയത്. വെളിയില്‍ നിന്നും ഇവിടെ നടക്കുന്ന ചര്‍ച്ചകള്‍ അനന്തന്‍ ആഴ്ചവെട്ടത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് കൃത്യമായി അറിഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ടേയിരുന്നു. അവസാനം ഇവിടെ പ്രശ്നം രൂക്ഷമായപ്പോള്‍ അനന്തനെക്കൊണ്ട് അസഭ്യവര്‍ഷം തന്നെ സ്വബോധ മില്ലാത്ത അവസ്ഥയില്‍ ചെയ്യിച്ചു. പക്ഷെ ബോധം തെളിഞ്ഞപ്പോള്‍ മാപ്പ് പറഞ്ഞതുകാരണം ഇപ്പോഴും അനന്തന്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ സര്‍വ്വ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യവുമുള്ള അംഗമാണ്. ദീപക് ശങ്കര നാരായണന്‍ FEC യില്‍നിന്ന്  ആട്ടിയോടിച്ച മാന്യനായ ചന്ദ്രകുമാറിനെപ്പോലെയാണ് ഞാനെന്ന്  പ്രസ്തുത ഗ്രൂപ്പുകാര്‍ തെറ്റിദ്ധരിച്ചെങ്കില്‍ &lt;a href="http://chandrakkaran-comments.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_26.html"&gt;നിങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് തെറ്റി&lt;/a&gt; ആനയുടെ തൊലിക്കട്ടിയുള്ളവനും ഇന്റെര്‍നെറ്റില്‍ സഭ്യമായ ഭാഷ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നവനും ആണ് ഞാനെന്ന് ധൈര്യമായി ഞാന്‍ പറയും.&lt;br /&gt;ഇന്ന് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ പതിമുന്നു &lt;a href="http://travancore-tvm.blogspot.com/"&gt;വയസ്സുകാരന്‍&lt;/a&gt; മുതല്‍ പ്രായം കൂടിയ എഴുപത്തിയേഴ് വയസ്സുള്ള &lt;a href="http://travancore-tvm.blogspot.com/"&gt;ബ്ലോഗര്‍മാര്‍&lt;/a&gt;  വരെ  ഈ കൂട്ടായ്മയില്‍ അംഗങ്ങളാണ്. പ്രായത്തിനും സ്ഥാനമാനങ്ങള്‍ക്കും ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പിലുള്ളവര്‍ ബഹുമാനപുരസരം സംബോധന ചെയ്യുവാനും അവര്‍ക്കെതിരെ ചൊറിയുന്ന കമെന്റുകള്‍ അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ വ്യക്തിഹത്യ നടത്താതെ മാന്യമായ ഭാഷയില്‍ പ്രതികരിക്കാന്‍ തയ്യാറാവും എന്ന കാര്യത്തില്‍ ആര്‍ക്കും സംശയം വേണ്ട. അഡ്മിന്‍ സ്ഥാനം ഉപേക്ഷിച്ച എനിക്ക് മാനേജര്‍ സ്ഥാനം ധാരാളം മതി. പുതുതായി വരുന്ന അംഗങ്ങളെ സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യുവാനും മോഡറേറ്റ് ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നവരുടെ സഭ്യമായ പ്രതികരണങ്ങള്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പിലേക്ക് തിരിച്ചുവിടാനും തല്കാലം അത് കൂടിയേ തീരൂ.&lt;br /&gt;ഞാന്‍ എഫ്ഇസിയിലും അംഗമായിത്തന്നെയുണ്ടാവും. അല്ലാതെ ഗുഡ് ബൈയും പറഞ്ഞ് ഇറങ്ങിയിട്ട് ഈ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ മെയിലയക്കുകയും മോഡറേറ്റ് ചെയ്യുമ്പോള്‍ ഇടനിലക്കാരനെ തേടുകയും ചെയ്യുന്ന സെബിനെപ്പോലെ ഒരു "ചെറ്റ അല്ല ഞാന്‍​".  ആ ഇടനിലക്കാരന്റെ മെയിലുകളും മോഡറേറ്റ് ചെയ്യപ്പെടും അത്രതന്നെ.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-8133647722444930152?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/8133647722444930152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=8133647722444930152' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/8133647722444930152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/8133647722444930152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post.html' title='തിരുവനന്തപുരം നിവാസികളുടെ ശ്രദ്ധക്ക്'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-3312199999259235777</id><published>2010-04-25T11:51:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-29T14:35:59.627+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dr. Tharoor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Controversy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reception'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IPL'/><title type='text'>A report by Ashraf Padanna in Oman Daily Observer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S9Pf3g3MN2I/AAAAAAAACBg/_1qt38JWzws/s1600/April+25+Observer+Tharoor.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 167px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S9Pf3g3MN2I/AAAAAAAACBg/_1qt38JWzws/s400/April+25+Observer+Tharoor.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463956917737764706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashraf Padanna is a member of Trivandrum Bloggers Group&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-3312199999259235777?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/3312199999259235777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=3312199999259235777' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3312199999259235777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3312199999259235777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/04/report-by-ashraf-padanna-in-oman.html' title='A report by Ashraf Padanna in Oman Daily Observer'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S9Pf3g3MN2I/AAAAAAAACBg/_1qt38JWzws/s72-c/April+25+Observer+Tharoor.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-6734014798652950466</id><published>2010-04-23T08:53:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-23T09:19:33.095+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Welcome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dr. Tharoor'/><title type='text'>A Warm Welcome to Shashi Tharoor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S9EYmuFPH3I/AAAAAAAACBY/cUBxTD1tess/s1600/April+23+Observer+Tharoor.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S9EYmuFPH3I/AAAAAAAACBY/cUBxTD1tess/s400/April+23+Observer+Tharoor.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463174876461211506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Courtesy : Oman Observor&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-6734014798652950466?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/6734014798652950466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=6734014798652950466' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6734014798652950466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6734014798652950466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/04/warm-welcome-to-shashi-tharoor.html' title='A Warm Welcome to Shashi Tharoor'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S9EYmuFPH3I/AAAAAAAACBY/cUBxTD1tess/s72-c/April+23+Observer+Tharoor.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-5134516916657390701</id><published>2010-04-20T19:47:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-21T06:33:56.351+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oman Daily'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dr. Tharoor'/><title type='text'>An article in Oman Daily by Ashraf Padanna</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S824F4m4ufI/AAAAAAAACBQ/u1FlShqrdz0/s1600/Oman+Daily.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S824F4m4ufI/AAAAAAAACBQ/u1FlShqrdz0/s400/Oman+Daily.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462224334304623090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ashraf Padanna is a member of Trivandrum Bloggers Group. He was watching the recent discusions on Dr. Tharoor's controversy on Kochi IPL issue. The report includes the opinions of various members of this Group.&lt;br /&gt;The PDF of full news is &lt;a href="http://main.omanobserver.om/files/Observer%20PDF%2020-04-10.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;availble here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. On 11th page the report of Ashraf appears with an image which is taken at the time of Twitters/Trivandrum Bloggers meet with Tharoor at Hotel Geeth International. The meet was arranged by the initiative of Kenney Jacob of the same Group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Ashraf Padanna for this report in Oman Daily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The recent controversy lead us to join &lt;a href="http://supporttharoor.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-5134516916657390701?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/5134516916657390701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=5134516916657390701' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-9016664039417383000</id><published>2010-03-04T13:41:00.013+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-11T17:21:14.534+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RTI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Act'/><title type='text'>Dharna to save RTI on 04-03-2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="600" height="400" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Frti4kerala%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26access%3Dpublic%26psc%3DF%26q%26uname%3Drti4kerala" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 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bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v14.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D5051c790a029edfc%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331065373%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D70E507C4BA1237794EC132B458B9D52984845DA8.19DD2BE2C0F7B4594E04D2399958CCAB9FBD0522%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D5051c790a029edfc%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DzjB41NOpGqqDDq3Hars5FokY8Mc&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;On 9th March 2010 Consumers Forum invites everybody to discuss this matter at Press Club hall, Trivandrum at 10.30 AM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;A  new Google Group started to discuss all about RTI Act.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://groups.google.com/group/rti4kerala"&gt;Interesed can join the Group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-9016664039417383000?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/9016664039417383000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=9016664039417383000' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/9016664039417383000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/9016664039417383000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/dharna-to-save-rti-on-04-03-2010.html' title='Dharna to save RTI on 04-03-2010'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-4821405361404035791</id><published>2010-03-03T06:18:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-03T09:42:52.629+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='വാര്‍ത്ത'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dharna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ധര്‍ണ'/><title type='text'>Dharna to Save RTI Act / ആര്‍ടിഐ സംരക്ഷണ ധര്‍ണ</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.mathrubhumi.com/pdf/rti_act.pdf"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S43XoKNUJJI/AAAAAAAAB8U/7n_IBlutnG0/s400/RTI.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444244609495737490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Click on above image to download pdf file&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S4208bApVHI/AAAAAAAAB8M/liYj-krk7Lw/s1600-h/SRTI.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S4208bApVHI/AAAAAAAAB8M/liYj-krk7Lw/s400/SRTI.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444206474696414322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A group of activists would stage a dharna in front of Secretariat (Statue)to protect the Right to Information (RTI) Act on March 4. To be staged from morning 10.30 to noon, the dharna will be inaugurated by noted senior journalist BRP Bhaskar.    &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The activists who stage dharna are from the organisations namely, Human Rights Defence Forum in Kochi, Bharana Parishkara Vedi in Thiruvananthapuram and Human Rights Initiative in Thalassery. Save RTI Bloggers Group (not yet formed) also participating on this Dharna. Interested Bloggers are requested to participate this event.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An article written by Varkala Radhakrishnan MP in kerala Kaumudi on 01-03-2010&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S43hZ3qcuqI/AAAAAAAAB8c/iE23hsBZTa0/s1600-h/RTI0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S43hZ3qcuqI/AAAAAAAAB8c/iE23hsBZTa0/s400/RTI0001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444255359115770530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-4821405361404035791?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/4821405361404035791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=4821405361404035791' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4821405361404035791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4821405361404035791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/03/dharna-to-save-rti-act.html' title='Dharna to Save RTI Act / ആര്‍ടിഐ സംരക്ഷണ ധര്‍ണ'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/S43XoKNUJJI/AAAAAAAAB8U/7n_IBlutnG0/s72-c/RTI.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-6026164518542312179</id><published>2010-01-01T21:54:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-02T15:02:04.351+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='പ്രതികരണം'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meet'/><title type='text'>തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ് / Trivandrum Bloggers Meet</title><content type='html'>പലരുടെയും തിരുവനന്തപരത്ത് ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ് നടത്തുവാനുള്ള അഭ്യര്‍ത്ഥനകള്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ലഭിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. അതിനാല്‍ തീയതിയും സ്ഥലവും നിശ്ചയിക്കവാനായി അവരവര്‍ക്ക് സൌകര്യപ്രദമായ ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ കമെന്റുകളായി രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുവാനായി അഭ്യര്‍ത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;ജനുവരി 26 ചൊവ്വ -&lt;/span&gt; ഇത് ഒരാള്‍ അവതരിപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-6026164518542312179?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/6026164518542312179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=6026164518542312179' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6026164518542312179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/6026164518542312179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2010/01/trivandrum-bloggers-meet.html' title='തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ് / Trivandrum Bloggers Meet'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-208559804992971861</id><published>2009-11-18T12:08:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-18T12:13:53.098+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trivandrum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tweetup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dr. Tharoor'/><title type='text'>Hon Minister's at Trivandrum Tweetup</title><content type='html'>This Audio is unedited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.4shared.com/embed/154447485/334d9410" width="320" height="200" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-208559804992971861?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/208559804992971861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=208559804992971861' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/208559804992971861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/208559804992971861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/11/hon-ministers-discussion-at-trivandrum.html' title='Hon Minister&apos;s at Trivandrum Tweetup'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-3524125653947135387</id><published>2009-11-16T19:53:00.007+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-17T17:10:04.550+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ഷൗട്ട്ഔട്ട് ഡോട് ഇന്‍'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ഉപഭോക്തൃ പരാതികള്‍'/><title type='text'>ഷൗട്ട്ഔട്ട് ഡോട് ഇന്‍ കേന്ദ്ര വിദേശകാര്യ സഹമന്ത്രി ഉദ്ഘാടനം ചെയ്യുന്നു</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SwKKyc6yvCI/AAAAAAAAB2A/AOn1pSoNeD0/s1600/NMST.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SwKKyc6yvCI/AAAAAAAAB2A/AOn1pSoNeD0/s400/NMST.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405035102158896162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;ചിത്രത്തില്‍ സൈറ്റ് ഉദ്ഘാടനത്തിനായി ഫാര്‍മര്‍ ലാപ്ടോപ് സെറ്റ് ചെയ്യുന്നു. പുറകില്‍ കാണുന്ന തല ശ്രീയുടേതാണ്. ജയകൃഷ്ണന്‍ ഓട്ടോഗ്രാഫ് ഡോ. തരൂരിനെക്കൊണ്ട് എഴുതിക്കുന്നതാണ് രംഗം.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17/11/09 ലെ &lt;a href="http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=A+site+about+consumer+rights&amp;amp;artid=%7C50V6vtTGiE=&amp;amp;SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&amp;amp;MainSectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&amp;amp;SEO=&amp;amp;SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;ദി ന്യൂ ഇന്‍ഡ്യന്‍ എക്സ്പ്രസ്സില്‍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; വന്ന വാര്‍ത്ത&lt;br /&gt;നെറ്റിസണ്‍ ട്വീറ്റ്അപ്  ഡോ. ശരിതരൂരിനൊപ്പം നവംബര്‍ 17 ന് 10.30 നും 11.30 നും മധ്യേ നടക്കുന്ന പരിപാടിയില്‍ &lt;a href="http://shoutout.in/"&gt;ഷൗട്ട്ഔട്ട് ഡോട് ഇന്‍&lt;/a&gt; എന്ന സൈറ്റ് ഉപഭോക്താക്കള്‍ക്ക് പരാതികള്‍ മലയാളത്തില്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുവാനായി &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;ഡോ. ശശിതരൂര്‍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ഉദ്ഘാടനം ചെയ്യുന്നു. ഇന്റെര്‍ നെറ്റിലെ ഇപ്രകാരമുള്ള ഏക മലയാളം സൈറ്റാണിത്. പ്രസ്തുത സൈറ്റ് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്ത് രൂപകല്പന ചെയ്തതാണ്. ശ്രീ@ശ്രേയസാണ് സൈറ്റിന്റെ ശില്പി.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://shoutout.in" frameborder="1" height="500" width="750"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-3524125653947135387?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/3524125653947135387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=3524125653947135387' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3524125653947135387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3524125653947135387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html' title='ഷൗട്ട്ഔട്ട് ഡോട് ഇന്‍ കേന്ദ്ര വിദേശകാര്യ സഹമന്ത്രി ഉദ്ഘാടനം ചെയ്യുന്നു'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SwKKyc6yvCI/AAAAAAAAB2A/AOn1pSoNeD0/s72-c/NMST.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-2148198421599722202</id><published>2009-11-12T06:18:00.028+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-18T10:53:53.976+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ShashiTharoor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Geeth International'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hotel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tweeters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meet'/><title type='text'>Tweeters meet with Dr. Tharoor/ ട്വീറ്റേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ് ഡോ ശശിതരൂരിനൊപ്പം</title><content type='html'>Dr. Tharoor's Speeks an the event Trivandrum Tweetup available online which is covered by Chandrakumar (Angkil)&lt;br /&gt;To download via WAP / GPRS mobile phone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;http://w7.media-convert.com/wap&lt;/b&gt; 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Please tweet/mail/blog about this following change. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow the link for online tweets related with &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23NMST"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trivandrum Tweetup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tweeters meet with Hon Minister Dr. Tharoor at "&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=hotel+geeth,+trivandrum,+kerala&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=57.641503,114.169922&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=hotel+geeth,&amp;amp;hnear=Trivandrum,+Kerala,+India&amp;amp;z=15&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"&gt;Hotel Geeth International&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Ph. &lt;span jstcache="53" dir="ltr" jscontent="$this.number" class="tel"&gt;0471 2471987, &lt;/span&gt; Near GPO, Pulimoodu Jn, Trivandrum between 10.30 and 11.30 AM" on 17th November 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://maps.google.co.in/local_url?q=http://base.googlehosted.com/base_media%3Fq%3DLBC-14849897-3715844243%26size%3D1%26hl%3Dml&amp;amp;dq=Hotel+Geeth+International&amp;amp;cid=8609351219485825829&amp;amp;hl=ml&amp;amp;ei=X2n-Soq5I5XyuwPq9NT4CQ&amp;amp;dtab=5&amp;amp;vps=1&amp;amp;output=js&amp;amp;jsv=187d&amp;amp;sll=8.494359,76.947126&amp;amp;sspn=0.006295,0.006295&amp;amp;abauth=730c41c4:ZEgJVxScmkxwONdVD9jGLRrodvk&amp;amp;absince=91&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQhgU&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;cad=LBC&amp;amp;sig2=jd1VB43FsNxY0KuKhTC9Cw&amp;amp;s=ANYYN7mbYWcwkeneSbFpdtupl1MQL5wV-g"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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Varghese, VSM (retired). has got a warm response from Shashi Tharoor himselp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Can+Monorail+solve+city%E2%80%99s+traffic+woes?&amp;amp;artid=Sc0Qqc2Pzow=&amp;amp;SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&amp;amp;MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&amp;amp;SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts&amp;amp;SEO="&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Can Monorail solve city’s traffic woes?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.expressbuzz.com/Images/article/2009/9/15/15sep_train.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 250px;" src="http://www.expressbuzz.com/Images/article/2009/9/15/15sep_train.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDetailNews1"&gt;THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While Kochi is singing tunes for Metro Rail, why shouldn’t the capital city think of a Monorail as a starter? If not the State Government, a senior citizen of the city has not just thought about it, but worked out a project report on ‘Monorail for Thiruvananthapuram’, which has got a warm response from the city’s MP himself.Brigadier C.G. Verghese, VSM (retired) prepared the paper ‘Augmenting Transport &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a id="KonaLink0" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Can+Monorail+solve+city%E2%80%99s+traffic+woes?&amp;amp;artid=Sc0Qqc2Pzow=&amp;amp;SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&amp;amp;MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&amp;amp;SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts&amp;amp;SEO=#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;" &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;" &gt;Infrastructure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, Monorail for Thiruvananthapuram’, which caught the attention of Trivandrum bloggers’ group last week. The group forwarded it to Shashi Tharoor MP and one of the bloggers tweeted to him about the post.Tharoor, the other day, tweeted in reply to say that it is an “excellent paper, well-researched and argued.’’ He added that it,  however, requires State Government action.“MP can’t initiate. Am willing to support a proposal by State Govt to Centre on a monorail &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a id="KonaLink1" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Can+Monorail+solve+city%E2%80%99s+traffic+woes?&amp;amp;artid=Sc0Qqc2Pzow=&amp;amp;SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&amp;amp;MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&amp;amp;SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts&amp;amp;SEO=#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;" &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;" &gt;system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for Tvm,’’ Tharoor’s tweet to a blogger says.Meanwhile, Brigadier Verghese, who is in Mumbai presently, is a happy man that his project has been receiving its due attention. He had a few months ago submitted the project to Law Minister M. Vijayakumar and former Road and PWD Minister Mons Joseph. But the idea did not move an inch.Verghese is a resident of the city for the last two decades and more, before he retired from the Army’s Intelligence Wing. He was heading the Army’s Intelligence School in Pune when he retired. And since then has been staying at Ulloor Prashanth Nagar in the city.His proposal is for construction of a Monorail system over the various rivers and canals, without hindering the existing roadways, railways and inland waterways and surrounding areas of Thiruvananthapuram city. “The basic concept of the project is construction of support structures of the system on Government land thereby obviating the need to evict landowners, which in turn, would reduce litigation, thereby reducing cost of the project,’’ he says.The project states: “Each river and ‘thodu’ in the city limits has 8 to 10 ft of Government land on either side. These strips of Government-owned land could be used for construction of concrete pillars and slabs and no one will have to be evicted and no compensation will have to be paid. These link roads constructed over the water sources would reduce the traffic congestion on existing main roads. On the Government land freely available astride the Karamana river, Killi river, Parvathi Puthanar and other canals in the North of Trivandrum city which are not utilized could be economically utilized for establishing a ‘Circular Monorail System’ around Greater Trivandrum.’’It goes on to say: “One set of Monorail cars could be run clockwise and another set of Monorail cars could be run anti-clockwise without disrupting our existing road, rail and inland water transport systems.’’Verghese has even created diagrams and maps to go with his proposal. “Our &lt;a id="KonaLink2" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Can+Monorail+solve+city%E2%80%99s+traffic+woes?&amp;amp;artid=Sc0Qqc2Pzow=&amp;amp;SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&amp;amp;MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&amp;amp;SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts&amp;amp;SEO=#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid blue; font-weight: 400; position: static;font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;color:#b00000;"  &gt;development &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid blue; font-weight: 400; position: static;font-family:Arial,Trebuchet MS,verdana;color:#b00000;"  &gt;projects&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="position: relative;" id="preLoadWrap2"&gt;&lt;div style="position: absolute; z-index: 4000; top: -32px; left: -18px; display: none;" id="preLoadLayer2"&gt;&lt;img style="border: 0px none ;" src="http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; related to road-widening end up nowhere because land acquisition poses a major hurdle. There are only seminars and discussions that happen,’’ he told Expresso from Mumbai.Interestingly, Verghese had written five ‘red books’ (which are confidential and restricted to use in Army and not for public reading) and also penned two other books which have been brought out by Vikas Publishers, New Delhi.Whatever its future, the Monorail proposal has currently become the topic of hot discussion among city bloggers.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;trivandrum@epmltd.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courtesy : Expressbuzz.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-4879881699997115539?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/4879881699997115539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=4879881699997115539' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4879881699997115539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4879881699997115539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/thanks-to-new-indian-express.html' title='Thanks to The New Indian Express'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-200557354473196452</id><published>2009-09-12T20:02:00.009+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-15T07:46:47.453+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shashi Tharoor'/><title type='text'>Letters to Hon. Minister Dr. Shashi Tharoor</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/Sq72tXQDAGI/AAAAAAAAByU/zYx-e-U_bPs/s1600-h/Monorail.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/Sq72tXQDAGI/AAAAAAAAByU/zYx-e-U_bPs/s400/Monorail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381509863950188642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Click on the image to read&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The news in Expressbuzz Supplement Sheet on 15-9-09 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AUGMENTING TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE&lt;br /&gt;MONORAIL FOR THIRUVANANTHAPURAM&lt;br /&gt;(A possible solution for traffic woes)&lt;br /&gt;by&lt;br /&gt;Brigadier C.G.Verghese, VSM (Retired)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INTRODUCTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thiruvanathapuram, the capital of ‘Gods own State’ Kerala, is being touted as a happening city. Over the last few decades, the city has made a quantum leap in attracting many institutions of learning and research and also quite a few modern industrial establishments. Growth of IT related establishments and other sectors have resulted in an increase in well paid jobs. Population has increased, with the native population being augmented by a migrant one catering to these new industries. The City being the administrative capital attracts a large number of people from Kerala and also from other states on government business. Vizhinjam is being developed into one of the major ports in India and as an International Container Transshipment Terminal. This, in addition to revenue generation and savings in cargo import, would also provide ample job opportunities thus further increasing the population. Adding to the influx of people is tourism with Kovalam being an important destination on the itinerary of tourists, both national and international.&lt;br /&gt;A corollary of this growth is personal affluence, despite the increasing cost of living these days. This has translated into a substantial increase in the number of motorized vehicles plying the roads. However, due to the geography and population distribution of this city, availability of land is scarce and this in turn has hampered development of infrastructure necessary to support the city’s march ahead. The appearance of multi storied buildings in a state where every individual strives to have an independent house is ample testimony to the paucity of land. One of the most visible results of this increase in population, personal affluence and inadequate infrastructure is congestion of traffic. This has lead to the resultant increase in traffic accidents, pollution levels and frayed tempers and unless addressed immediately is set to get only worse in the days to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE PROBLEM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The affluence mentioned earlier is apparent from the fact that people who used to ride a bicycle to work ten years ago are driving a car these days. Families who used to own a car earlier are now two or three car families. This problem is fuelled by the following factors&lt;br /&gt;(a)	Increase in take home salaries and the number of double income families.&lt;br /&gt;(b)	Availability of loans at a rate of interest affordable to an increased number of people.&lt;br /&gt;(c) Availability of cars / two wheelers at a reasonable cost. Ratan Tata’s ‘Nano’ at a cost of Rs.One Lac will certainly increase availability to the common man.&lt;br /&gt;(d)	Lack of a quality public transport system leading to an increase in the number of personal vehicles.&lt;br /&gt;The number of vehicles per 100 Km road in 2002 was 5958. With an average annual growth rate of 12.5 per cent, the number of vehicles on the road is increasing at an alarming rate. How and not whether this spectacular growth of vehicles can be accommodated safely on the road infrastructure is the question of the hour and worth analysis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a number of closely related/resultant issues that complicate the problem. Some of them are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(a) Pollution is one of the fallouts as the city marches ahead. The high influx of population, increasing traffic density, rapid economic development and higher levels of energy consumption are the main contributors. Air pollution is widespread in urban areas where vehicles are the major contributors. Vehicular emissions are of particular concern since these are ground level sources and thus have the maximum impact on the general population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(b) Being a state capital, Thiruvananthapuram is at the receiving end, when disruption of traffic and destruction of public property occurs due to political upheavals, agitations and strikes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(c) Non availability of adequate parking space in the city complicates congestion as vehicles are now parked wherever space is available. Parking on both sides of the roads leads to further reduction in the available road width for traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(d) Even a casual glance at any of the newspapers would make it amply clear that the frequency and number of traffic accidents is on the rise. Though consumption of alcohol / narcotics, road rage, rash driving etc could be cited, it does not diminish the fact that increasing number of people are succumbing to vehicle related accidents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(e) Extending the display area of a shop by encroaching the footpath and street hawkers who set up shop on the sidewalk compel pedestrians to walk on the road thereby contributing to accidents. Removal of cement slabs covering the drainage channels alongside roads for never ending-repairs also compels pedestrians to take to the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(f) Increase in the number of vehicles also translates into increased consumption of petrol and High Speed Diesel and the resultant increase in pollution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(g) Despite ongoing projects for developing roads in the state, adequate progress is not being made due to litigation by people who have/would be evicted/have to give up part of their land to cater for the project. Experts dealing with the national highways are of the view that it would be impossible to have six or eight lane highways in Kerala, because of the limited availability of land for construction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(h) Development in the transport sector is possible only with the contribution of both private and public sectors. Roads form part of the public sector and are developed / maintained by the State, albeit by multiple agencies like PWD (NH), PWD (B&amp;amp;R) and the City Corporation. The downside is that each of these agencies has their own way of developing and maintaining the roads under them and these are not necessarily in congruence with each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(i) Laying down of roads has to be carried out in coordination with utility providers and agencies whose networks are closely aligned. This coordination is required in all phases of construction and maintenance. It is understood that a road protocol has been approved and will need to be strictly followed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a number of aspects that could be addressed as a possible solution to the issues mentioned earlier. Among them the primary ones are vehicle density and pollution. The salient aspects of each are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(a) Vehicle density. Reduction in the vehicle density to ease the situation is an imperative need. A practical strategy has to be devised that reduces congestion. Strategies that would benefit are:&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;br /&gt;(i)	Augmentation of public transport system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ii)	A mass rapid transport system for the major urban areas and the rapidly expanding city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(iii)	Introduction of incentives and regulations with a view to reduce the growth rate of   personal vehicles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(iv) Better traffic planning and management with construction of express highways linking major urban areas, flyover bridges, underpasses and most importantly, better traffic enforcement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(b) Pollution. Measures that could be instituted / contemplated for institution, to reduce emissions from the transport sector are :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(i)	Enforcement of stringent emission norms (Euro/Bharat standards) along with fuel quality specifications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ii)	Development of better engine technology and fuel specifications to conform to stringent emission norms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(iii) Formulation of an inspection and maintenance system for the large fleet of in-use vehicles. It is possible to reduce 30-40% pollution loads generated by vehicles through proper periodical inspections and maintenance of vehicles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(iv) Ban on commercial vehicles more than 15 years old and greater promotion and use of alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG) / LPG/ propane/ battery operated / hybrid vehicles. Expansion of CNG dispensing facilities and increased fiscal incentives for CNG kits needs to be considered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MY PROPOSAL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the measures mentioned earlier, I have a proposal which if implemented would not only contribute to reduction in vehicle density and pollution but also provide the fair city of Thiruvanathapuram a unique transport system. The proposal envisages construction of a monorail that runs around the periphery of the city. An important aspect of the proposal is utilization of Government land thereby obviating the need to procure land from private individuals thus reducing litigation and resultant cost overruns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the planned electrification and doubling of existing railway lines, development of inland water ways, extension of airport and air transport facilities as part of the future development, reduction in traffic density and pollution are unlikely to accrue due to paucity/non-availability of land for improving the road infrastructure. This is one of the major reasons why we are not able to construct new rail lines and national highways in our state to cope with the alarming increase in traffic density. It is unfortunate that we are restricted to talking about widening our two way roads when neighbouring states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are developing six lane and eight lane roads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to better appreciate the concept, a brief description of the monorail system and its advantages and disadvantages, when compared to other transport systems, is given in the succeeding paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monorail system&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guide way. These systems have found applications in the transportation market, in airport transfer and some medium capacity metro systems. Monorail vehicles are often at first glance similar to other light rail vehicles, and can be both manned and unmanned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advantages&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;br /&gt;(a) The primary advantage is that they require minimal space, both horizontally and vertically. The vehicles are wider than the beam, and the system is commonly elevated, requiring only a minimal footprint for support pillars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(b) The track is usually less expensive to build than a comparable elevated conventional rail line of equal capacity. They also cost less to construct and maintain than underground metro systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(c) Due to a smaller footprint they are more attractive than conventional elevated rail lines and block only a minimal amount of sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(d)	The Monorail is a grade-separated system and does not interfere with existing transport modes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(e)	They are quieter, as modern monorails use rubber wheels on a concrete track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(f) Unlike conventional rail systems, straddle monorails wrap around their track and are thus not physically capable of derailing, unless the track itself suffers a catastrophic failure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(g)	Rubber-tired monorails can climb steeper grades better than ordinary steel wheel trains are also quieter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disadvantages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(a)	Monorail vehicles are not compatible with any other type of rail infrastructure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(b) In an emergency, passengers may not be able to immediately exit because an elevated monorail vehicle is high above ground. The passengers may have to wait to be rescued; however, this issue can be resolved by building emergency walkways alongside the entire track. Suspended railways resolve this by building aircraft style evacuation slides into the vehicles. The next train could also be used to tow the disabled train to the next station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(c)	Monorail infrastructure and vehicles are often made by different manufacturers and usually have incompatible designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My proposal is for construction of a Monorail system over the various Aars, rivers and Nallahs, without hindering the existing road ways, railways and inland water ways in the city and surrounding areas of Thiruvananthapuram city. The basic concept of the project is construction of support structures of the system on Government land thereby obviating the need to evict landowners, which in turn, would reduce litigation thereby reducing cost of the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A set of parallel monorail tracks could be constructed on each bank of the Aars and Thodus. One set of monorails could run clockwise and another, anti-clockwise. Stations could be established near all highway and rail crossings. Places of tourist attraction and commercial centers in and around Greater Thiruvananthapuram could also be linked to this system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Details of the various thodus and aars that could be utilized for the project are placed at Appendix ‘A’ while the route for the proposed Monorail is shown in the diagram.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The motive power for the system could be either diesel or electricity, depending on availability. With 44 rivers running into the Arabian Sea, we could have a large number of mini and micro Hydel projects in Kerala. The power so generated could augment the existing capacity to provide the necessary power for the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A possible spin-off of the monorail would be the necessary upkeep and maintenance of the aars and thodus as they would be in public view. The service roads astride Parvatiputhan Aar and other Aars would provide roads for evacuation of casualties in case of any emergency.&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;br /&gt;Contracts for construction of the Monorail system should follow a strict time schedule and be on the Build, Operate and Transfer principle. Suitable training of personnel by the OEM should also be addressed. Possibly, a better option would be GOCO or Government Owned and Company Operated system. Tenders from international organisations and companies could be called for and local labour and materials utilized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thodus and nallahs in Thiruvananthapuram could be classified into three types as under:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(a) Narrow Thodus with steep embankments in hilly terrain or in heavy built up areas. These could be covered with concrete slabs and pre-stressed concrete beams and used as one way or two way roads thus providing additional connectivity. Water inlets and inspection and maintenance openings could be provided for ensuring the flow of rain water into the Nallahs and drains and for cleaning and removing obstructions, if needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(b) Medium width Thodus with 15 to 20 meters width, sloping embankments and seasonal water flow. Portions of these may pass through built up areas of the city. Construction of the monorails along the banks would divert a large amount of traffic from congested roads within the city limits. This could also prove to be a tourist attraction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(c) Thodus and Aars which are wider than the width of a four lane high way and having water flowing in them through out the year. These too could be used for establishing monorails on both banks. Parvati Puttan Aar, Karamana Aar, Sharkara Aar, and the various Kayals enroute could be cleaned and maintained by the monorail authorities and this would certainly enhance the beauty of the area which in addition to ameliorating the traffic congestion would also attract more tourists to the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Additional measures. The following additional measures could be implemented and would certainly aid in addressing the problem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(a) Improve the condition of the existing buses and introduce comfortable / deluxe transport buses like Volvo buses at regular intervals between major areas so as to encourage car and motor cycle owners to travel by these buses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(b)	Car pooling by office goers should be encouraged / rewarded by both Government and Private employers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(c) Public education to avoid fast and rash driving. Electronic devices could be installed to detect violations of traffic rules on all major roads. Ensuring enforcement of action against defaulters will be a deterrent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(d) Projects for development and construction of new roads and highways should cater for increase in traffic density for the next 20 if not 50 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(e) Repairs and Maintenance of roads should be carried out during the night time, which would speed up the repair work and reduce inconvenience to the public. Mobile maintenance teams should be organized to repair roads as a continuous process. The concept of a stitch in time saving nine is very apt for this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(f) Processions and protest marches should not, as far as possible, be allowed on roads with high density traffic. If not feasible, alternate routes must be available for traffic. Passage of VVIPs is another issue. All traffic is brought to a grinding halt. There is no denying that the worthies deserve a clear road, however, the duration for which the traffic is halted could be better managed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(g) Changes in the government should not affect development plans. Projects started by an incumbent government should not be discarded by the new government under the pretext that the project is untenable and/or funds allotted have all been exhausted/misused by the earlier rulers. In a lighter vein, if we could collect the foundation stones laid for some projects rotting in the country side, they would be sufficient to build a house. Each leader, keeping aside petty and partisan politics, should sponsor a project and progress it thereby making it his personal contribution to the state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(h) Provision of adequate parking in the form of multi storied parking stations in various parts of the city. All malls and shopping complexes should have their own parking spaces. This should be a prerequisite for obtaining the license to start business within city limits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thiruvananthapuram is going to be in the forefront in India’s quest for landing a man on the moon. We should also lead the country in establishing the Monorail.&lt;br /&gt;			Brigadier C.G.Verghese, VSM (Retd)&lt;br /&gt;430, Prasanth Nagar, Ulloor&lt;br /&gt;Medical College.P.O,&lt;br /&gt;Trivandrum, 695011&lt;br /&gt;Ph - 0471- 2448547&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appx ‘A’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The various Aars Thodus that could be utilised&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Grid References are given in brackets against each name)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.Sharkara Aar (28km)&lt;br /&gt;From Tekka Da (08-43) – Vembayam (05-44) – Amballur ---Velavur (08-46)—Veliayakattakkal (01-49)--- Idaidod (06-48) – Mamam (94-49)--- Vilyilmula (91-49) Kattumurakkal Todu (91-49) --- Manjadi Mud Todu (89-46) – Tazham Pallil 988-45) near Chirayinkal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.Kadinamkulam Kayal (8 km)&lt;br /&gt;Araya Thuruth …Pulim Thuruthu …Kaka Thuruthu ….Mattanvila … Chembilppad…..Kadinalkulam …Polanchira (94-40)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.Parvatiputhan Aar (25 km)&lt;br /&gt;Kaka Thuruthu….Puthan…. Thura… Kolattur… …&lt;br /&gt;Veli Rs……Oruvathilkotta….. Vallakadavu …. Shri Mulam Lock …Puntura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.Karamana Aar (24km)&lt;br /&gt;Hangattu Kadavu …. Kundaman Kadavu … Melapuram (Killi Aar)… Irani Muttam …. Killi Palam … Vallya Shala …. Para Chira Weir…..Sasta Mangalam ……Jagadi …….Angamada …….Mannamula……Karakulam…..Azhikod…….Vallikkod……&lt;br /&gt;Iranjayam …..Tekkada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.Ulloor Thodu (17km) cable car system&lt;br /&gt;Veli … Trivandrum Boat Club….Aakkulam Kayal, Venpalamuttam Kannammula Mutattu Vilagam….Kumarapuram…Ulloor…Medical College…Turuvikkal …..Srikariyam … Mar Ivanius College…Paudikonam (05-37).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.Kulathoor Thodu (12 KM) Cable car system&lt;br /&gt;Veli ..RS……Kulathoor….Kazhakuttom ….Sainik School… Andoorkonam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.Sarkkara Aar (22 Km)&lt;br /&gt;Pulividu (00-44) Near Ambalamuku … Kizhtonakkal….Kudevur&lt;br /&gt;(96-46)…. Vadaparambu (96-47) … Pudicale (95-49) ..Sarkkara Aar…..Kundalur (90-48)… Attingal Aar….Chirayinkal ….Kadinamkulam Kayal…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.Pattom Thodu  (10km) Cable Car System&lt;br /&gt;Kannammoola …….Kanivilakunnu …..Plamudu …Pattom Thodu …Parambukonam … (05-29)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appx ‘B’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monorail&lt;br /&gt;Jump to: navigation, search&lt;br /&gt;This article is about the use of monorails in transportation. For use in mechanical handling, see Overhead crane. For use in photography, see Monorail camera. For use in computer programming, see Monorail (.Net).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The KL Monorail in Kuala Lumpur, a colourful straddle-beam monorail&lt;br /&gt;A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway. The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles travelling on such a beam or track. The term originates from the contraction of the words mono (single) and rail, from as early as 1897, as early systems used metal rails. The transportation system is often referred to as a railway. In contrast, a light rail system has two rails sharing support of the train which also share the responsibility of guiding the train.&lt;br /&gt;[edit]Differentiation from other transport systems&lt;br /&gt;Monorail systems have found shared applications in the transportation market in airport transfer and some medium capacity metro systems. To differentiate monorail systems from other transport modes, the Monorail Society further clarifies the definition of a monorail such that the beam in a monorail system is narrower than the vehicle.&lt;br /&gt;[edit]Similarities&lt;br /&gt;Monorails are often but not exclusively elevated, sometimes leading to confusion with other elevated systems such as the Docklands Light Railway, Vancouver SkyTrain and the JFK AirTrain. Monorail vehicles are often at first glance similar to other light rail vehicles, and can be both manned and unmanned. Monorail vehicles can also be found in singular rigid format, articulated single units, or as multiple units coupled into 'trains'. In common with other advanced rapid transit systems, some monorails are driven by linear induction motor. In common with other dual rail systems, the vehicle bodies are connected to the beam via bogies, allowing curves to be negotiated.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Differences&lt;br /&gt;Unlike some trams and light rail systems, modern monorails are always partitioned from other traffic and pedestrians. Monorails are both guided and supported via interaction with the same single beam, in contrast to other guided systems such as Rubber-tyred metros, such as the Sapporo Municipal Subway; or guided buses or trams, such as Translohr. Monorails also do not use pantographs.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Maglev&lt;br /&gt;Under the Monorail Society beam width criteria, some but not all maglev systems are considered monorails, such as the Transrapid and Linimo. Maglevs differ from all other monorail systems in that they do not (normally) physically contact the beam.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] History&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Early years&lt;br /&gt;Attempts at creating monorail alternatives to conventional railways have been made since the early part of the 19th century. The earliest patent was taken out by Henry Palmer in the UK in 1821, and the design was employed at Deptford Dockyard and a short line for moving stone from a quarry near Cheshunt to the River Lea.&lt;br /&gt;Early designs centred on use of a double-flanged single metal rail alternative to the double rail of conventional railways. Wheels on this rail would both guide and support the monorail car. A surviving suspended version is the Wuppertal monorail. Into the 1900s, Gyro monorails, with cars gyroscopically balanced on top of a single rail, were tested but never developed beyond the prototype stage. The Ewing System, used in the Patiala State Monorail Trainways in Punjab, India, relies on a hybrid model with a load-bearing single rail and an external wheel for balance. One of the first systems put into practical use was that of French engineer Charles Lartigue, who built a monorail line between Ballybunion and Listowel in Ireland, which was opened in 1888 and closed in 1924 (due to damage from Ireland's Civil War). The Lartigue system uses a load-bearing single rail and two lower, external rails for balance, the three carried on triangular supports.&lt;br /&gt;[edit]&lt;br /&gt;Gyroscopically balanced monorail (1907) by Brennan and Scherl&lt;br /&gt;1900s-1950s&lt;br /&gt;The first half of the 20th century saw many further proposed designs, that either never left the drawing board or remained as short lived prototypes.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] 1950s-1980s&lt;br /&gt;In the latter half of the 20th century, monorail designs had settled on using larger beam or girder based track, with vehicles supported by one set of wheels and guided by another. These designs featured vehicles supported, suspended or cantilevered from the beams. In the 1950s the ALWEG straddle design emerged, followed by an updated suspended type, the SAFEGE system.&lt;br /&gt;During this period, major monorails were installed at Disneyland, California, Seattle, and Japan. Monorail systems were also heavily promoted as futuristic technology with exhibition installations and amusement park purchases, as seen by the number of legacy systems in use today. However, monorails gained little foothold compared to conventional transport systems.&lt;br /&gt;Niche private enterprise uses for monorails emerged, with the emergence of air travel and shopping malls, with many shuttle type systems being built.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Perceptions of monorail as public transport&lt;br /&gt;From 1950 to 1980 the monorail concept may have suffered, as with all public transport systems, from competition with the automobile. Monorails in particular may have suffered from the reluctance of public transit authorities to invest in the perceived high cost of un-proven monorails when faced with cheaper mature alternatives. There were also many competing monorail technologies, splitting their case further.&lt;br /&gt;This high cost perception was challenged most-notably in 1963, when the ALWEG consortium proposed to finance the construction of a major monorail system in Los Angeles, in return for the right of operation. This was turned down by the city authorities in favour of no system at all, and the later subway system has faced criticism as it has yet to reach the scale of the proposed monorail.&lt;br /&gt;Several monorails initially conceived as transport systems survive today on revenues generated from tourism usage, benefitting from the unique views offered from the largely elevated monorail installations.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Resurgence&lt;br /&gt;From the 1980s onwards, with the rise of traffic congestion and urbanization, monorails have experienced a resurgence in interest for mass transit usage, notable from the early use by Japan and now Malaysia. Monorails have also seen continuing use in niche shuttle markets, as well as amusement parks.&lt;br /&gt;Modern mass transit monorail systems have settled on developments of the ALWEG beam and tyre approach, with only two suspended types in large use. Some systems have also settled on maglev technology.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Types and technical aspects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Schwebebahn Wuppertal, the world's first suspended monorail&lt;br /&gt;Modern monorails depend on a large solid beam as the vehicles' running surface. There are a number of competing designs divided into two broad classes, straddle-beam and suspended monorails.&lt;br /&gt;The most common type of monorail in use today is the straddle-beam monorail, in which the train straddles a reinforced concrete beam in the range of two to three feet (~0.6-0.9 m) wide. A rubber-tired carriage contacts the beam on the top and both sides for traction and to stabilize the vehicle. The straddle-beam style was popularized by the German company ALWEG.&lt;br /&gt;There is also a form of suspended monorail developed by the French company SAFEGE in which the train cars are suspended beneath the wheel carriage. In this design the carriage wheels ride inside the single beam. The Chiba Urban Monorail is presently the world's largest suspended monorail network.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Power&lt;br /&gt;Almost all modern monorails are powered by electric motors fed by dual third rails, contact wires or electrified channels attached to or enclosed in their guidance beams. However, diesel-powered monorail systems also exist.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Magnetic levitation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Transrapid maglev on monorail track&lt;br /&gt;Magnetic levitation train (maglev) systems by the German Transrapid were built as straddle-type monorails, as they are highly stable and allow rapid deceleration from great speed. When in full-speed operation maglev trains hover over the track and are thus not in physical contact with it. The maglev is the fastest train of any type, the experimental JR-Maglev having recorded a speed of 581 km/h (361 mph). The commercial Shanghai Maglev Train has run at 501 km/h (311 mph).&lt;br /&gt;In addition, Linimo was inaugurated in Japan in 2003.&lt;br /&gt;UniModal has patented the SkyTran "pod monorail" which would use an Inductrack passive maglev monorail track for personal rapid transit. The system remains in the conceptual stage.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Switching&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Switching section on the Chester Zoo Zoofari Monorail ride.&lt;br /&gt;Some early monorail systems--notably the suspended monorail of Wuppertal (Germany), dating from 1901 and still in operation--have a design that makes it difficult to switch from one line to another. Some other monorail systems avoid switching as much as possible, by operating in a continuous loop or between two fixed stations, as in Seattle, Washington.&lt;br /&gt;Current operating monorails are capable of more efficient switching than in the past. In the case of suspended monorails, switching may be accomplished by moving flanges inside the beamway to shift trains to one line or another.&lt;br /&gt;Straddle-beam monorails require that the beam structure itself be moved to accomplish switching, which originally was an almost prohibitively ponderous procedure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sydney's monorail avoids switching by operating in a single loop.&lt;br /&gt;Now, however, the most common way of achieving this is to place a moving apparatus on top of a sturdy platform capable of bearing the weight of vehicles, beams and its own mechanism. Multiple-segmented beams move into place on rollers to smoothly align one beam with another to send the train in its desired direction, with the design originally developed by ALWEG capable of completing a switch in 12 seconds.[6] Some of these beam turnouts are quite elaborate, capable of switching between several beams or even simulating a railroad double-crossover.&lt;br /&gt;In cases where it must be possible to move a monorail train from one beam to any of a number of other beams, as in storage or repair shops, a traveling beam not unlike a railroad transfer table may be employed. A single beam, at least long enough to carry a single monorail vehicle, is aligned at an entry beam to be mounted by the monorail cars. The entire beam then rolls with the vehicle to align with the desired storage beam.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Advantages and disadvantages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old Soviet monorail in Ukraine (now abandoned)&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Advantages	&lt;br /&gt;(a)The primary advantage of monorails over conventional rail systems is that they require minimal space, both horizontally and vertically. Monorail vehicles are wider than the beam, and monorail systems are commonly elevated, requiring only a minimal footprint for support pillars.&lt;br /&gt;(b)A monorail track is usually less expensive to build than a comparable elevated conventional rail line of equal capacity.&lt;br /&gt;(c)Due to a smaller footprint they are seen as more attractive than conventional elevated rail lines and block only a minimal amount of sky.&lt;br /&gt;(d)Monorail is, by design, a grade-separated system. They do not interfere with existing transport modes.&lt;br /&gt;(e)They are quieter, as modern monorails use rubber wheels on a concrete track (though some non-monorail subway systems, like certain lines of the Paris Métro and all of the Montreal metro, use the same technique and are equally quiet)&lt;br /&gt;(f)Unlike conventional rail systems, straddle monorails wrap around their track and are thus not physically capable of derailing, unless the track itself suffers a catastrophic failure.&lt;br /&gt;(g)Rubber-tired monorails can climb steeper grades better than ordinary steel wheel trains, with Hitachi monorails designed to cope with 6% grade.&lt;br /&gt;[edit] Disadvantages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mud Island Monorail, in Memphis, Tennessee (2005)&lt;br /&gt;(a)Monorail vehicles are not compatible with any other type of rail infrastructure, which makes (for example) through services onto mainline tracks impossible.&lt;br /&gt;(b)Monorail tracks do not allow at-grade intersections.&lt;br /&gt;(c)In an emergency, passengers may not be able to immediately exit because an elevated monorail vehicle is high above ground and not all systems have emergency walkways. The passengers must sometimes wait until a rescue train, fire engine or a cherry picker comes to the rescue. Newer monorail systems resolve this by building emergency walkways alongside the entire track, at the expense of visual intrusion. Suspended railways resolve this by building aircraft style evacuation slides into the vehicles. Japanese systems use the next train to tow broken down trains to the next station, but this has yet to occur.&lt;br /&gt;(d)Turnouts, especially high speed ones tend to be difficult. Traversers might be substituted.&lt;br /&gt;(e)Monorail infrastructure and vehicles are often made by separate manufacturers, with different manufacturers using incompatible designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;  &lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.4  (Linux)"&gt;  	 	 &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } 	--&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=======================================================&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Respected Sashi Tharoor Ji,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;As our representative from Trivandrum in our Parliament, I would like to bring to your notice the immediate need of the people of Trivandrum for a modern Traffic System of transportation, suitable for the 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; century, which could be constructed at the lowest cost, in the shortest time, without the major problems of evicting poor people from their small possession of lands and ensuing prolonged court cases for the next few years.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; The citizens of Trivandrum district and adjacent townships are badly affected by the acute shortage of modern roads and existing inefficient and inadequate transport systems. Due to lack of wide roads and parking facilities, private car owners are finding it difficult to take out their cars to the trade centres and offices located within the city limits. The transport systems existing in the city are not adequate enough to cater for the ever increasing population of the city and its suburban areas. In the absence of any public transport systems like circular railways or metro trains , car owners are compelled to park their cars on small roads and by lanes, at the risk of being stolen by bad elements of the society.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; When neighboring states like Tamil Nadu , Karnataka and Maharashtra are having 4 lanes / 6 lane Highways and North South National Highways, our government is not in a position to think of even widening our existing highways and narrow main roads. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; Some of the reasons for the inability of our State Government to widen the existing roads and North South Highways or for creating Link Roads to divert the heavy traffic on National Highway No.47 are discussed in the succeeding paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;		&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reasons hindering the development of Roads and Highways :&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;		&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Shortage of open ground space astride existing highways for widening and construction of parking lots and Parking Bays for public and private vehicles.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Very high price for land in the 	city limits of Trivandrum and suburban areas which may vary from 5 	to 20 lacs per cent.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;People are not willing to surrender and vacate from their small earthly possessions without prior rehabilitation arrangements and adequate compensation. They have to be provided with alternate suitable accommodation, employment opportunities and educational facilities for their children in the new place allotted to them, before they are evicted.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Introduction of small cars like “ NANO “ , availability of 90% loans from banks and private financiers and organized sale of second hand cars by major automobile dealers have attracted middle income persons who are having 2 wheelers to become owners of small cars. A car is considered as a status symbol and many people are buying cars with their newly increased pay packets, inspite of the high price of petrol and non availability of parking space within the city limits.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;In the absence of suitable Public Transport vehicles with minimum facilities for office goers , people are forced to take out their cars and leave them in congested areas of the city. Three wheelers are charging exorbitant rates for running short errands and harass the public. Due to lack of sufficient Link roads interconnecting the main roads and Highways within the city limits , four wheelers , three wheelers and animal carts are forced to ply on main highways and major roads and create traffic jams. The unauthorized encroachment of available space astride the roads by hawkers and shopkeepers also create considerable hindrances to free flow of traffic inside the city limits .During the peak hours between 0900 hrs to 1100 hrs and 1600 hrs to 1800 hrs, it would take more than one hour for a person from the Railway station or Airport to reach his house located in the North or South areas of the city.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Construction of new Link roads after acquiring land in the centre parts of the city and demolishing big buildings are not considered economical. Thus, it is unlikely that Government would construct anymore Link roads within the city limits after paying Rs. 5000 to Rs .8000 per sq. mt. to the owners of the land as compensation. Development Projects like (1) SMART city (2) Vizhinjam Port (3) International Airport (4) Electrification and doubling of Rails (5) Construction of North South Highway (6) Development of Inland Waterways, are some of the major examples in which our State could not make any progress so far. These projects could have progressed if eviction of people from their homelands and subsequent court cases could have been avoided. Projects could only succeed when sufficient land is available and Government owned lands could be utilized for such projects.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;For progressing construction works astride existing Main roads and Highways , traffic on those roads have to be partially blocked and some traffic will have to be diverted on other roads running parallel to those main roads. Since we have very few alternate routes in Trivandrum city, the traffic on the existing roads will have to be blocked or controlled. The Japanese water supply system being introduced in Trivandrum city is a good example to show how the development work would hamper the smooth movement of traffic and interrupt the day to day life of the common man for the next few months.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Since we have no CIRCULAR ROADS or Railways around the city limits of Trivandrum and as no Metro Railways are being planned like the Metro Trains in Calcutta and Delhi or the one being planned for Kochi, it is essential that Greater Trivandrum city could have a “Circular Traffic System” covering all the satellite townships and small towns around Trivandrum corporation. This traffic system, in order to be successful, will have to be planned and constructed on land owned by Government without any necessity of evicting many people or demolishing any of their buildings and houses existing astride the proposed Circular Railway line. &lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Workforce and materials required for the project will have to be transshipped to the work sites and existing main roads and highways will have to be used for this purpose. This would automatically disrupt the free flow of traffic on existing narrow roads.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;If adequate labour and construction materials are available close to the worksites, movement of men and material for the development project could be minimized and the time involved could be reduced considerably. If the work is distributed to various contractors evenly in different parts of the project sites, the entire project could be completed in time. This would require coordination and supervision of work at the highest level.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;My suggestions for improving the traffic ability of our existing roads and for creating alternate routes for the rapidly increasing vehicular traffic in Greater Trivandrum during the next 50 yrs are given below :&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Develop the existing “Inland Waterways” and canals and create Inland Water Transport system between Kolachal in the South to Kozhikode in the North. By deepening the existing Parvati Puthan Aar , Canals and Thodus and clearing the old Waterway, Motor boats and country boats could carry hill products and cargo at cheaper rates than by the road or rail transport arrangements. Our Tourism department could also be benefited with these developments.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;The small Thodus and drainages like Pattom Thodu, Ulloor Thodu and other Thodus and major drainages could be covered with concrete slabs and converted into Link Roads for linking the existing highways and main roads.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Each Aar ,Nallah and Thodu in the city limits have 8 to 10 ft of Government land on either side.These strips of Government owned land could be used for construction of concrete pillars and slabs and no one will have to be evicted and no compensation will have to be paid. Thus the total expenditure of the entire project could be brought down to the minimum. These Link roads constructed over the Thodus and Nallahs would reduce the traffic congestion on existing main roads.&lt;/p&gt; 	&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;On the Government land freely available astride the Karamana Aar, Killi Aar, Parvati Puthan Aar and other Aars in the North of Trivandrum city which are not utilized could be economically utilized for establishing a “Circular Mono Rail System “ around Greater Trivandrum. All the concrete pillars and beams required for the Mono Rail could be constructed at various sites locally, at short intervals. This would amount to distribution of the work to various sites astride those Aars and Nallahs. One set of Mono Rail cars could be run clock wise and another set of Mono Rail cars could be run anti clock wise without disrupting our existing road , rail and inland water transport systems. Mono Rail trains run in Kuala Lampur , Malaysia is a good example for us to follow. Instead of constructing a Circular road or a Metro train system like the one in Calcutta , Delhi or Bangalore, a “Circular Mono Rail System” could be established around Greater Trivandrum city. It would be more economical and practical system of transportation of men and materials. This Mono Rail System could be established quicker and easier than any other system of transportation. Widening of existing main roads and Highways would only disrupt the existing transport systems and increase the miseries of the common man in Trivandrum for the next one or two decades.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;An earlier paper which I have prepared on “Mono Rails” is attached along with this mail for your perusal and reference.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Thanks and Regards,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; Brigadier C. G. Verghese ,VSM (Retd)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; 430 Prashant Nagar,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Ulloor ,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Medical College P.O.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Trivandrum 695 011&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-left: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Kerela.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/Sq72tXQDAGI/AAAAAAAAByU/zYx-e-U_bPs/s1600-h/Monorail.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-200557354473196452?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/200557354473196452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=200557354473196452' title='39 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/200557354473196452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/200557354473196452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/09/letters-to-hon-minister-dr-shashi.html' title='Letters to Hon. Minister Dr. Shashi Tharoor'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/Sq72tXQDAGI/AAAAAAAAByU/zYx-e-U_bPs/s72-c/Monorail.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>39</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-4501398211394956982</id><published>2009-04-17T08:39:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-17T08:44:19.894+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceokerala'/><title type='text'>Voters Turnout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SefzOMk2oqI/AAAAAAAABKk/HulHMnBL8A8/s1600-h/Trivandrum.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SefzOMk2oqI/AAAAAAAABKk/HulHMnBL8A8/s400/Trivandrum.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325492509608420002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Click on the image to view clearly.&lt;br /&gt;Courtesy : &lt;a href="http://ceokerala.com/HPClac%20VOTER%20TURNOUT.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ceokerala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-4501398211394956982?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/4501398211394956982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=4501398211394956982' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4501398211394956982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4501398211394956982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/04/voters-turnout.html' title='Voters Turnout'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SefzOMk2oqI/AAAAAAAABKk/HulHMnBL8A8/s72-c/Trivandrum.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-3052674922190784680</id><published>2009-04-15T18:18:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-16T06:30:47.224+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trivandrum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MP'/><title type='text'>Parliament Candidates 09 - Details</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width='780' height='500' frameborder='0' src='http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTsXCZSx3Qkkc6dwUj4ocAg&amp;output=html&amp;widget=true'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Affidavits :: &lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/afidavit/tvm/P_K_KrishnaDas.pdf"&gt;P K KRISHNA DAS&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/afidavit/tvm/m_p_gangadharan.pdf"&gt;M.P.GANGADHARAN&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/afidavit/tvm/A_NeelalohithadasanNadar.pdf"&gt;DR.A NEELALOHITHADASAN NADAR&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/afidavit/tvm/P_Ramachandran_nair.pdf"&gt;ADV. P RAMACHANDRAN NAIR&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/afidavit/tvm/shashi_tharoor.pdf"&gt;SHASHI THAROOR&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/afidavit/tvm/ajithkumar_k.pdf"&gt;AJITHKUMAR.K&lt;/a&gt; |&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For more details Visit : &lt;a href="http://www.ceokerala.com/"&gt;ceokerala&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-3052674922190784680?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/3052674922190784680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=3052674922190784680' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trivandrum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shashi Tharoor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bloggers'/><title type='text'>Few members of this group met Dr. Shashi Tharoor</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The following is the news covered by metro manorama on 01-04-09.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SdNVfqQCLjI/AAAAAAAABJ4/EH_rkimHMO8/s1600-h/Manorama.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_15scEd6gJ0c/SdNVfqQCLjI/AAAAAAAABJ4/EH_rkimHMO8/s400/Manorama.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319689587260534322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Keralafarmer (S.Chandrasekharan Nair) presented his views in front of Dr. Shashi Tharoor on the occasion of Trivandrum Bloggers meet with him at his residence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A1ExxF0ucX8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A1ExxF0ucX8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Dr. Brijesh Nair (PhD in environmental Engineering) send voice message to Dr. Shashi Tharoor Through other members of this Group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="505"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" 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width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-1274900375767030858</id><published>2008-12-27T10:19:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-12-27T10:19:27.794+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ഉപഭോക്താവ്‌ / Consumer: ഒരു നിര്‍ദ്ദേശം-ബൂലോഗരുടെ പ്രത്യേക ശ്രദ്ധയ്ക്കും വിശകലനത്തിനും</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://upabhokthavu.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post_14.html"&gt;ഉപഭോക്താവ്‌ / Consumer: ഒരു നിര്‍ദ്ദേശം-ബൂലോഗരുടെ പ്രത്യേക ശ്രദ്ധയ്ക്കും വിശകലനത്തിനും&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://upabhokthavu.blogspot.com/2008/03/cfl.html"&gt;വൈദ്യുതി ഉപയോക്താക്കള്‍ക്ക് നല്ലകാലം വരുന്നു&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-1274900375767030858?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://upabhokthavu.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post_14.html' title='ഉപഭോക്താവ്‌ / Consumer: ഒരു നിര്‍ദ്ദേശം-ബൂലോഗരുടെ പ്രത്യേക ശ്രദ്ധയ്ക്കും വിശകലനത്തിനും'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/1274900375767030858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=1274900375767030858' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1274900375767030858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1274900375767030858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2008/12/consumer.html' title='ഉപഭോക്താവ്‌ / Consumer: ഒരു നിര്‍ദ്ദേശം-ബൂലോഗരുടെ പ്രത്യേക ശ്രദ്ധയ്ക്കും വിശകലനത്തിനും'/><author><name>അങ്കിള്‍</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-4493254968321725213</id><published>2008-10-01T05:34:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-02T12:26:48.553+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ഇന്ന് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ്/ Trivandrum Bloggers meet on 2nd October</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;സ്ഥലം ---- ഹോട്ടല്‍ ഇന്ദ്രപുരി&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(ടെറസ്), വാന്‍റോസ് ജംഗ്ഷന്‍&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;സമയം ----- 5 മണിമുതല്‍&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഇനിയും പങ്കെടുക്കുവാന്‍ താല്പര്യമുള്ളവര്‍ ഉണ്ടെങ്കില്‍  അറിയിക്കുക. പങ്കെടുക്കും എന്ന് അറിയിച്ചിട്ടില്ലാത്തവരും താഴെക്കാണുന്ന ഫോണ്‍ നമ്പരുകളില്‍ ഏതെങ്കിലും ഒന്നില്‍ ബന്ധപ്പെടുക.&lt;br /&gt;ചന്ദ്രശേഖരന്‍ നായര്‍ --- 9495983033&lt;br /&gt;ചന്ദ്രകുമാര്‍ ------------ 2360822&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A few of us in Trivandrum, claiming to be Trivandrum Bloggers :-), are planning to meet up for a dinner at&lt;strong&gt; 5 PM &lt;/strong&gt;on &lt;strong&gt;2 October 2008&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;strong&gt;Hotel Indrapuri&lt;/strong&gt;. If you are interested to be part of this simple gathering, please leave a comment in this post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Contact Keralafarmer - 9495983033 OR Chandrakumar - 2360822 before Oct 1st evening.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;No presentations, no SEO, no sweepstakes, no publicity and no sponsors!  It’s a dutch party.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You don’t need to be an active blogger to participate in this, any blog readers or well wishers are most welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-4493254968321725213?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/4493254968321725213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=4493254968321725213' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4493254968321725213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4493254968321725213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2008/10/trivandrum-bloggers-meet-on-2nd-october.html' title='ഇന്ന് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ്/ Trivandrum Bloggers meet on 2nd October'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-1397970870087664181</id><published>2008-08-23T05:52:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-13T17:04:15.456+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Meet and Eat-TVPM/ ഒത്തുചേരല്‍</title><content type='html'>2008 ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 02 ന് തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത് വിദേശങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന് വരുന്ന ബ്ലോഗേഴ്‌സിന്റെ താല്പര്യപ്രകാരം ഒരു ഒത്തു ചേരലിന് തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്‌സ് ഗ്രൂപ്പ് അവസരമൊരുക്കുന്നു. പങ്കെടുക്കുവാന്‍ താല്പര്യമുള്ള മറ്റ് ബ്ലോഗേഴ്‌സിനും പുതുതായി ബ്ലോഗ് തുടങ്ങുവാന്‍ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്കും പങ്കെടുക്കാം. സ്ഥലവും സമയവും പങ്കെടുക്കന്നവരുടെ എണ്ണം പരിഗണിച്ച് നിശ്ചയിക്കുന്നതാണ്.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTsXCZSx3QklT2a2HXocyRg&amp;amp;output=html&amp;amp;gid=0&amp;amp;single=true&amp;amp;widget=true" width="500" frameborder="0" height="300"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;ലിസ്റ്റില്‍ പേര് ചേര്‍ക്കുവാന്‍ കമെന്റ് രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുക&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-1397970870087664181?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/1397970870087664181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=1397970870087664181' title='31 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1397970870087664181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1397970870087664181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2008/08/meet-and-eat-tvpm.html' title='Meet and Eat-TVPM/ ഒത്തുചേരല്‍'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-4773125902745458956</id><published>2008-08-21T07:46:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-21T12:54:42.814+05:30</updated><title type='text'>BlogCamp Trivandrum /ബ്ലോഗ്ക്യാമ്പ് തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത്</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;One of our member Ajay said :&lt;/span&gt; Hopefully, with all of us on the job, we should be able to host the next Blogcamp in Ananthapuri. What say?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as soon as we start operations in Kerala, sponsorship is something we can think of. ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kenny joined with it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can definitely host another camp in Trivandrum. Will you company sponsor it ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;Next BlogCamp Kerala will be at Trivandrum organising by Trivandrum-Bloggers Group and the details of blogcamp will be available at  blogcampkerala.com . Now we are panning to conduct the same on 2008 October 2nd. Please submitt your comments and suggestions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;അതെ അടുത്ത ബ്ലോഗ് ക്യാമ്പ് തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തുണ്ടാവും എന്ന് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കാം.&lt;br /&gt;കൂടുതല്‍ ചര്‍ച്ചകള്‍ക്കും അഭിപ്രായങ്ങള്‍ക്കുമായി സമര്‍പ്പിക്കുന്നു.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-4773125902745458956?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/4773125902745458956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=4773125902745458956' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4773125902745458956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/4773125902745458956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.html' title='BlogCamp Trivandrum /ബ്ലോഗ്ക്യാമ്പ് തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത്'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-1668205522684835211</id><published>2008-02-02T09:50:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-02T09:54:36.198+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='കൊടകരപുരാണം.'/><title type='text'>കൊടകരപുരാണം ഓണ്‍ലൈനായി ഇപ്പോള്‍ വാങ്ങാം</title><content type='html'>ചിന്താ.കോമിന്റെ പുതിയ സംരംഭമായ &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.smartneeds.com/" target="_blank"&gt;www.smartneeds.com&lt;/a&gt; വഴി കൊടകര പുരാണം ഓണ്‍ലൈനായി വാങ്ങാന്‍ സംവിധാനം ഒരുക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നതായി ഇന്നു കാലത്തെ മെയില്‍ കിട്ടി. 10 % ഡിസ്കൌണ്ടും.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ഞാന്‍ ഒരു കോപ്പിക്ക്‌ കാലത്തുതന്നെ ഓര്‍ഡര്‍ ചെയ്തു. വി.പി.പി യായി ഉടന്‍ ലഭിക്കുമെന്ന്‌ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-1668205522684835211?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/1668205522684835211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=1668205522684835211' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1668205522684835211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/1668205522684835211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html' title='കൊടകരപുരാണം ഓണ്‍ലൈനായി ഇപ്പോള്‍ വാങ്ങാം'/><author><name>അങ്കിള്‍</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-8118132641414840591</id><published>2007-11-13T07:09:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-11-13T07:09:38.203+05:30</updated><title type='text'>ഞങ്ങള്‍ തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗ് എഴുത്തുകാര്‍</title><content type='html'>ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള തിരുവനന്തപുരവുമായി ബന്ധമുള്ള വിവിധ ഭാഷകളില്‍ ബ്ലോഗുകള്‍ എഴുതുന്നവരെ ഒരു കുടക്കീഴില്‍ കൊണ്ടു വരിക എന്നതാണ് ഈ ബ്ലോഗിലൂടെ ലക്ഷ്യമിടുന്നത്. അപ്പോഴപ്പോഴുള്ള ആശയങ്ങള്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് മെയിലിംഗ് സംവിധാനത്തിലൂടെ കൈമാറുന്നതിന്  &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://groups.google.com/group/trivandrum-bloggers"&gt;ട്രിവാന്‍ഡ്രം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; എന്ന ഗൂഗിള്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പും ഈ ബ്ലോഗുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നു. ഗ്രൂപ്പില്‍ ചേര്‍ന്നവരുടെ &lt;a href="http://trivandrum.bloggers.googlepages.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;പ്രൊഫൈല്‍സ് ഓഫ് ട്രിവാന്‍ഡ്രം ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;എന്ന വെബ് സൈറ്റും പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. നല്ല നിര്‍ദ്ദേശങ്ങളും അഭിപ്രായങ്ങളും പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. ഒന്നാം തിരുവനന്തപുരം മലയാളം &lt;a href="http://tvpmmeet.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ബ്ലോഗേഴ്സ് മീറ്റ്&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ഇക്കഴിഞ്ഞ നവംബര്‍ പത്തിന് അങ്കിള്‍ എന്ന ബ്ലോഗറുടെ ഭവനത്തില്‍ നടക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. അതിന്റെ കൂടുതല്‍ വിശേഷങ്ങളും ചിത്രങ്ങളും പ്രസ്തുത ലിങ്കില്‍ ലഭ്യമാണ്.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-8118132641414840591?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/8118132641414840591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=8118132641414840591' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/8118132641414840591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/8118132641414840591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post.html' title='ഞങ്ങള്‍ തിരുവനന്തപുരം ബ്ലോഗ് എഴുത്തുകാര്‍'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7134901977466484016.post-3784777150128627893</id><published>2007-11-13T05:32:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-11-13T13:58:49.482+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to bloggers of Trivandrum</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dear bloggers of Trivandrum,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul  style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It is an attempt to bring the bloggers of Trivandrum together to share knowledge, technology, support etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;A &lt;a href="http://groups.google.com/group/trivandrum-bloggers"&gt;community&lt;/a&gt; beyond language, cast, religion and party politics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;We convene Periodical mettings of Trivandrum Bloggers etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Malayalam users are requested to use &lt;a href="http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net/fonts/AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf" rel="nofollow"&gt;AnjaliOldLipi&lt;/a&gt; in Windows &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc" rel="nofollow"&gt;Meera&lt;/a&gt; for GNU/Linux &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Malayalam editors are &lt;a href="http://adeign.googlepages.com/ilamozhi.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;ilamozhi&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Malayalam" rel="nofollow"&gt;Google indic&lt;/a&gt; etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;At present Trivandrum bloggers group members are not permitted to post at this Trivandrum Bloggers blog .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Trivandrum Bloggers &lt;a href="http://trivandrum.bloggers.googlepages.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Profiles&lt;/a&gt; of members are here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;We are thankful to the members who joined this Group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7134901977466484016-3784777150128627893?l=trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/feeds/3784777150128627893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7134901977466484016&amp;postID=3784777150128627893' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3784777150128627893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7134901977466484016/posts/default/3784777150128627893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trivandrum-bloggers.blogspot.com/2007/11/welcome-to-bloggers-of-trivandrum.html' title='Welcome to bloggers of Trivandrum'/><author><name>Chandrasekharan Nair</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/113218964528190204584</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fWuxzJTiqGA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAACbQ/GCx22k27yDE/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
