The reports that came out recently establish that the road accidents on Kerala is increasing drastically and in the last two months, around 700 lost their life on road. That is an average of more than 10 per day!

Out of the 700, 80% is bike riders and pedestrians. Out of this 309 were bikers, and a good percentage did not had helmets on. and the 61% of the pedestrians were above 50.

 The poor conditions of roads in Kerala, and overpopulation of bikes and small roads, traffic blocks and the impatient nature are the major reason of these accidents.
Even I was kissed by many two wheeler guys and luckly nothing went to major accidents. The basic problem is that the two wheelers tend to overtake through the wrongest side and try to be a smart ass! and end up in a coffin…

The steps are almost the same as we have in the reliance net connect post. Read it here.

Only change will be the username and password.They will be

username – internet 
password = internet

I think its a failure… Mani saar only could manage to hike the prices of every single stuff… He has even raised the road tax as if he is building super quality roads in kerala.
The sports sector has completely been ignored.. And so is the arts… He has only included a lot of consruction so that the contractors can do corruption.. I coild not see anything constructige in the budget he presented today.

The only good thing in the budget is that he has managed to lift the retirement age limit to 56 ( in my view it should be at least 60 – considering the life expectancy of Kerala people )

now that the elections are over and the congress have started seeing themselves in the oposition in many startes, i wonder if they will still go ahead with the petrol price hike.

If the reports are right, they are planning to rise the petrol price by 5 rupee…

I wonder how many harthals will follow that … I am not sure how many of these political partes pledge that the will remove the deregulation on petroleum prices ?

Obama Says India is the reason for global oil price hike

I am pretty much irritated by this declaration of Obama, that the recent oil price hike was due to the high consumption of oil by india and china. This is reported by the daily MathruBhoomi on March 2.

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A few weeks ago I had an emergency and had to travel to Bangalore, and since the travel was decided in an hour, I could not book any tickets in train or flight. So, I had to drive to Bangalore.


I reached Mannuthy at 11, starting at 945 from Aluva. The rest of the road up to Avinashi was poor, took 4 hours to complete. And from Avinashi, the toll road starts and the rest was very comfortable and I was able to drive at an average speed of 75 kmph and reached Bangalore by 730.

And the return was also similar , covered the 4 way track in 3.5 hours ( ~275KM ) and then the two way started and we lost the speed.

My point here is, even though, I had to pay ~ INR 275 one side as toll, I think considering the speed at which I covered the distance, the money I paid for toll is justifiable. Even if I had to pay INR 50 at Trissur toll plaza, I would happily give it because, i was able to reach up to Mannuthy in 1 hour from Aluva, which otherwise would have taken anywhere more than 2.5 hours.

Of course, there is issue with local people living on the other side of the plaza , who have to commute daily to other side for a living. There should be some kind of exception for them, like some kind of subsidized scale or exception for local registration private vehicles.

Further, considering the density of the vehicles crossing these toll booths, i think its easy for the authority to reduce the rates too, I think. I have heard that Aluva Trissur road is the busiest one in Kerala


off topic, It was during this trip, that I drove the Mahindra XUV5OO for the first time and got a hand on experience with Samsung Galaxy note – Thanks to Achu – he has been a wonderful friend…

Galaxy note is is a bit large to be a phone and XUV is a bit small to be an SUV – may be because I’ve got addicted to Safari