Kalla Paastarumare sookshikkuka ....( Beware false pastors... )

Beware of the Yohannans, Thangus and Dinakarans ..!!!!!! 

KP Yohannan was in the news last night for the wrong reason. he and his force of volunteers an family members had purchased a big estate in erumely, ( I have seen this estate myself with the name of their church written on board..). The only thing is this estate is in the name of his family members and not in the name of h church or the believers whos money was used to buy this 250 acre estate. May be it is God's desire that only KP Yohannan and family should handle the money of the gullible faithful. But the govt needs to know the source of the money and how it is being spent and in whose name. Fair enough .. Unless the govt uses these controls, there will be havoc caused by these aggressive christians in this country.

The problem with these rock'n'roll born again christians is that they fail to see reason or accept others' viewpoint.  They are God's chosen few and are waiting to receive the passport to make the trip straight to heaven, leaving other christians and people of other faiths to die a horrible death in this world.

With just a little knowledge of the Bible verses and convenient, incorrect and biased interpretations to suit their mode of belief, they get aggressive in their belief, often leading to  friction among believers.. (The Bible is inspired word of God, and has undergone numerous revisions and editing over the first one thousand years when it was not in print and was conveyed by palm leaf writing and so on and then for the next seven hundred years or so, it has undergone numerous revisions..). It is the inspired word from the Bible with the traditions that have been followed over the past two thousand years which is the foundation of Christianity. (Not following the Bible, word by word, coma by coma..)  It is precious and not to be kicked around like what these people are doing, like a milch cow.

These liberal christian beliefs (protestant) which took shape five hundred years ago ( and have no traditions worth their salt..) have actually made it so easy for any Tom, Dick and Harry to start his/her own church and group of followers to start the spiritual business to make money and mislead the faithful, wean them away from their faith and wreak havoc everywhere...

Also the Bible asks us to beware of such false prophets who come in His name and create havoc among his believers. Before they have the last laugh, let us get together and expose these fraudsters... and give peace to some of the intelligentia who have preferred to give them company than see reason ...

george..

The 41 st day of demise of Dr Thomas Zachariah, Trivandrum

Today is the 41 st day after the demise of Dr Thomas Zacahariah, a very famous and kind surgeon from the Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum.

Our attachment with Dr Thomas Zachariah and his wife Mrs. Sara Thomas, the writer, is through their daughter and son-in-law, Deepa Thomas and Charles John Zachariah, who was my colleague at MRF Ltd Goa during 1987-88. Their two sons, Karthik and Thilak are also friends of our kids, Thilak and Jobi studied in the sam class at Almeida, Ponda, Goa.

Whenever Dr and his wife used to visit Goa to their daughter's place, they made it a point to visit us too.

Doctor was a very quiet and friendly person full of josh for life like his wife, the famed writer of Malayalam literature and member of the Kerala State film censor Board.

Doctor spent his last moment on his wife's lap taking a small nap, nobody thought this small nap would become the eternal one on this earth. Only to be raised in God's presence soon.

Wish Doctor's soul peace everlasting. ( No doubt he has brought peace through service to mankind, to innumerable people and was a great humanist and philanthropist..)

george..

Anila's aunties and cousins come home..

It was a pleasant evening with Anila's aunties, thankammamma, amminiammamma and valsammamma and cousin gisha, pradeep and kids at our house yesterday. They came home at 3 PM and left at 5.30 PM. Kid ha  pretty good time, with no water and electricity, it was a bit difficult for all of them, nonetheless, we managed ..

jokuttty ...

House blessing - koodasha ..

Fr Thomas, Vicar of the St Gregorios Orthodox Cathedral. Johnson Market came home with the kapyar for house blessing prayers yesterday, 13 May 2008.

It was a good time and there is a lot of change in the home routine since then.

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Kind regards,

George Easaw

convocation snaps..

our convocation was on saturday, may 10, 2008. some snaps from that programme.

Kiran Karnik, former President, NASSCOM was the Chief Guest.
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Kind regards,

George Easaw

Indians have started eating well ??

This happens to be the opinion of the U Secretary of State , Ms Rice and subsequently the President Mr Bush. As Indians have started eating better quality food, naturally there is a scarcity of food grains and this has resulted in increase of food grain prices all over the world.

How true is this statement ?

Are we robbing the US citizens of their right to splurge on food ? Are we robbing the US citizens of their freedom to have high quality, low cost food at the expense of feeding the poor from other countries of the world ?

Even now we have millions who are still living in poverty in India.

Did Mr Bush and Ms Rice commit and diplomatic and factual blunder by their utterances ?

George Easaw 

Global trends in agriculture - part I

World agriculture is in dire straits.. The cost of foodgrains is increasing day by day. There is scarcity of food grains all over the world. It is estimated that by 2020, we will be burning 400 tonnes of foodgrains a year for producing biofuel !!

It is high time we seriously thought of the crisis about to grip this world.

There are some threats and trends which are being observed in the world agriculture scenario. It makes sense to understand these threats and trends completely and figure out ways to circumvent the damaging effects of these trends.

The first threat is definitely the threat of feeding an increasing world population from the limited arable land on this earth. By 2050, we will need to feed almost 9 billion people in this world, up from the present 6 billion. With less land, less water and less nutrients staring at us on the face, we should be doubling the crop output across the world.
Rapid industrialisation happening in major countries of the world is the second threat - When this rapid indutrialisation happens in two of the most populous countries of the world, one can imagine the problems it can result in. The other day I was totally taken aback with a statement from the US Secretary of State, Ms. Rice that the present food shortage of the world is the result of the changed food habits of the people in India and China. Changing food prefereneces, higher purchasing power, demand for better quality food, can all put greater strain on the countries exporting food grains.

The third threat is the pressure on global water resources, environment and natural resources - With increasing urbanisation and industrialisation, the global water resources ar being diverted from the environment and farmlands. The threatend species of flora and fauna who share this planet earth with us are strained to having to live in reduced land mass and with lesser resources.

The fourth trend is th growing demand of biofuels resulting in foodgrains getting diverted to the more profitable biofuels industry, leading to food shortages and increases in food prices.

Threat of climate change on productivity of land : with the global climate chnging presure is on the existing land mass to produce more. With climate changes adversely affecting us, land productivity is decreasing.

(to be continued..)