Tomichan Matheikal's blog

Today’s Malayala Manorama reports that the Madhya Pradesh government paid five hundred rupees each to thousands of people who were brought from the 33 districts of the state to swell the rally held in Amarkhand where PM Modi exercised his rhetorical skills yet another time.   The report goes on to say that the money was taken from the Sachch Bharat funds. BJP is using enormous sums of money for propaganda of all sorts some of which are extremely heinous and remind us of the propaganda techniques employed by Hitler and the methods employed by Mossad.   Now if the Prime Minister will say things he did a few months ago (like: 80% of gau rakshaks are criminals, or ‘kill me instead of attacking the Dalits’), we know it’s only a temporary ploy for placating the current mood.   The Prime Minister along with his Goebbelsian Amit Shah has a clear vision and goal: to make India a Hindu Rashtra.   Eliminating the minority communities and Dalits is part of the game.   The latest

It is difficult to choose one favourite writer because there are quite a few whom I admire.   However, for the sake of the latest Indispire theme, I pick Nikos Kazantzakis because of his particular relevance in today’s India which is being torn apart into fragments by certain political forces which pretend to have religious motives. Though the Greek Orthodox Church considered excommunicating Kazantzakis for writing the novel The Last Temptation of Christ , the idea was rejected because even his bitter enemies could easily see that Kazantzakis was more spiritual than the religious leaders.   When the clergy was campaigning ferociously for his excommunication, Kazantzakis’s reply was: “You gave me a curse, Holy fathers, I give you a blessing: may your conscience be as clear as mine and may you be as moral and religious as I.” He was not exaggerating.   The tragedy with most religious people is that they don’t explore their religion as deeply as people like Kazantzakis.   De

In a mathematical function the maxima and the minima alternate. Life is mathematics the equations are made by the priest and the politician. It’s a game. Gods are game in that game. I’m happy to be somewhere in an inconspicuous point where the graph is not crooked.