Volume 5 | Issue 4 | November - December  2010 |

Editorial


    Five years have passed since www.thanalonline.com was launched.

    And I have published only fifteen issues, so far. I am not sad because, I have no commitment towards anyone for taking up this venture. But I really feel that it has made an imprint of its seal on writers in several parts of the world. It is not a claim, but a statement of the fact.
     
    I could enlist the support of many a writer from Farida Hassan Zadeh to DR. Rati Saxena to George Trialonis. Joneve McCormick and Usha Akelle has written in my magazine, along with not only new writers, but writers of established credentials. I am proud that Adam Ayub is publishing his autobiography in my ezine. The internationally known Farideh Hassan Zadeh is doing a column of her own in this ezine.
     
    With many a shortcoming, the ezine has reached thousands in Malayalam and English.
    I have decided to publish a regular monthly journal from this issue on. I hope my writers and readers would appreciate this decision, with a winking of the eye, because, I have also made similar promises earlier. It is not a highhanded decision. I put many nights on this thought. I am convinced that this can be done.
     
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    In the editorials of this ezine, I have several times criticized the Hon. Prime Minister of India on account of his not disclosing the truths regarding the Nuclear treaty with the US, ASEAN treaty etc. I am sure I have been totally justified in doing so. Our country is besieged by a new work of officers, intellectuals and strategists from the US and from our own country; it is this network that decide as to who should be minister, as to what should be our prime consideration in evolving policies etc. Neera Radia and the like have proved this fact beyond an iota of doubt. I am sure I a speaking against the topmost powers that reign India.   I see with fear and alarm that the three graft incidents of G- Spectrum, Common Wealth Games and Adarsh Flat have been a heavy blow on my nation. A sum of 1, 76, 000 crores lost to our country just because some interests that wanted a man like Mr. Raja as the minister concerned. The wave space for the transmission of events and entertainments were sold out to several incompetent tenderers even with out completing the formalities of tender; still Raja is merely questioned, not under duress, but under the most extra ordinary circumstances of pleasure and pomp. The first estimate of the much trumpeted C”Wealth Games was 2000 crores, while the total outlay now stands some where near 80, 000 crores under the “most efficient “ leadership of Suresh Khelmadi ji. The Adarsh flats were meant for the widows of the Kargil martyrs. But who got them is no secret.
     
    The Speculation business in the field of agriculture led to the unwarranted price rise for vegetables such as garlic, onion and tomato; but Dr. Man Mohan Singh is convinced that it is the due to the fault of the IBM Computers employed to safeguard various petro spheres in agriculture and therefore Hon. Prime Minister is inclined to purchase better giant computers from the Micro Soft to safe guard the petro spheres. So, the hike of prices was a competition between IBM and Microsoft , and the latter is going to get a few million rupees on account vegetable price rise in Indi a.
     
    We are reminded of the three rogues that cheated the Brahmin saint to believe that his goat was a dog. Prime Minister of India are trying to convert his own country men to buffoons or ignoramuses.
     
    I lament to myself: Shame upon us that we have a Prime Minister lying to his own people and a central ruling party controlled by a citizen of Italy. 
     
    In this context, let us have introspection. Is the faculty of response in Indians diminishing to an all-time low?  When the iron ores of the country are being robbed of by usurpers in the guise of rulers and their henchmen, people are remaining calm and unresponsive; is it not shameful upon the so-called intelligentsia that they remain silent on the whole development? Patrick Suskind’s Character Grenoulle who had created the scent of anything and everything was killed and eaten piecemeal by the onlookers who walked shyly away from the self. Have we reached to this level of self-deceit?   This country we live in to day is to remain for the future also. In Pakistan, large areas of land are being sold to the wealthier countries; the alarming example has been the sale of Cholistan desert land to Saudi Arabia. India is selling mines and other resources that should have been preserved for the posterity.
     
    With a Prime Minister who is constrained to say twice a day that he would face the Public Accounts Committee on account of grafts is not a matter of pride. In stead of appearing before the PAC, couldn’t he advise his colleagues to be ready for a JPC Inquiry, so that at least the pride of the Parliament is protected? Parliament is relegated to the back ground while Committees with American specialists are geared to decide to function for our country.
    The history of our civilization has a few lessons, which the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister of our country very well know, but never want to learn. The major lesson is that whenever, the country is in danger of being fully destroyed, the people would rise to the occasion and save it. That the lesson has delayed to be imparted into practice need not be taken as a cause of alarm or fear.
     
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    2010 has passed by us with out any significant cultural advancement except a few deaths. Sure , deaths are not attainments.
     
    Wish you all a happy new year.
     
    C. P. Aboobacker,
    Chief Editor