Molly Charles-Reflections

 A different post from my usual, this is on the KSEB (Kerala State Electricity Board) and the blind spot of Keralites, with or without the awareness of its governance system. While states across India follow the pattern of monthly billing for electricity consumed, consumers in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and parts of Haryana are billed on a bimonthly basis and the monthly consumption is considered to be average of the total bimonthly consumption. In Haryana, there has been a shift from bimonthly bill payment to monthly payment. Consumers in Kerala have been asking for a monthly based bill for they feel they are being overcharged on months they consume less. The exorbitant billing by the KSEB for our average household connection is what had us take a closer look at its bimonthly billing system and this post is an outcome of that. Suppose your total bimonthly consumption is 1120, but in the first month you consumed only 490 units and in the second month you consumed 530 units. In the bi...

 Prime Minister of Israel stop pretending to be lover of peace, you are a country that has been bombing your neighbours in total impunity, and the sad reality is that none of the neighbours have seriously taken the guideline of ICJ to sanction your country.  You have profited from war crimes, plausible genocide, and you and your nation had no qualms of testing the Jets, quadcopters, the latter tested to such perfection as to ensure perfect result when shooting children lying scared and still after being injured from missile attack.   Prime Minister of Israel, your country has put to shame the entire humanity for the people of the world are unable to ensure sanctions on your country or even to have UN throw you out of system. Even after raping Palestinians, and your citizens attacking officials for arresting the rapists, the citizens of Israel, according to documentation, said the rapists had to be set free.  I am an Indian, I do not want my country to tarnished ...

  The President of US Donald Trump is claiming to be the apt recipient for Nobel Peace Prize as he commits mass murder and displays it with pride on social networking sites. The question is why should global governance be held hostage by a lying or insane US President. According to US laws, mass murder is a violent crime of killing more than three people during an event with no “cooling-off period” between the homicides. Interestingly while 30 percent of mass murderers die in the act, the US President sits in his Oval Office and carries out mass murder from a distance.  US legal apparatus sanctions it and feels it is legal? Both US President and Pentagon are lying about drug trade between Latin American countries and US; they are falsifying reality because: a) Both US data and UN data indicate drug trade from Venezuela is not the major cause of concern for US in the region. b) A boat is a boat; it cannot carry tons of drugs that makes it visible and clear threat for US...

  The world witnessed the immoral right of America to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites, the rationale “Iran cannot have nuclear energy” be it for civil or military purpose. Before dwelling on the question Why Iran cannot have nuclear energy or moral right of US, Israel or EU to ignore sovereign rights of Iran and assume Israel, US and EU can make the final call on who can or cannot have military equipment innovation access or nuclear energy access, it may be interesting to focus briefly on status of nuclear energy in the world today. I.                  Nuclear Energy access across the globe and its implications Unlike after second world war, possession of nuclear weapon is not an exclusive reality of a few, at present nine countries have their own nuclear war heads and six other countries are hosting nuclear weapons. In total in the global there are 12,331 nuclear war and out of which heads 9600 are in ac...

  Stray thoughts on the new Legal Shift in India: The Government of India is bringing in new laws to address governance issues within India especially with regard to law and order. It gives more powers to the Police, as though the problem India faced was the absence of the same. While the experts have said Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita to be one that will make India a Police Raj, I think you are being humorous and will soon make yourself into a laughingstock for all. Why, from my limited understanding the problem of criminal law delivering justice is linked to certain other factors: a) That prisons are overcrowded, an issue also created by presence of large number of inmates who are waiting for justice process or the final verdict. Often, they may end up in Prison for periods far more than what the justice could deliver as maximum sentence for the given crime. b) There aren’t enough lawyer or judges to ensure speedy delivery of justice. In case you think AI will address the issue,...

                                                                                                                                                   Peace is something everyone can sense, and yet, find difficult to define. Its complexity, and simplicity is reflected in our restricted definition of peace as an absence of war/violence, even though we sense it is far beyond that.    Peace is a concept that exists beyond the boundaries of empirical reality, but we seek it within the realms of empirical reality, where power has the final say. We conceive it as a static state, where a world view palatable to u...