Some absorbing writings by George Easaw for the reading pleasure of the public.
Sunday, December 20, 2020
How corporate governance is helping a Panchayat in Kerala, Kizhakkambalam to excel ..
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Work till one is 75 years ..
What is an effective strategy to have one work till the age of 75 years ? Most of us desire to be able to work till that age.
Can we achieve it ?
From observation of people with great longevity, health, the author has come across ten points which can ensure great life.
1. Walk to keep good healthy heart and strong muscles for your leg to support your body
2. Eat and exercise moderately, eat to live, not live to eat.
3. Sincerely care for your partner
4. Engage your creative brain, start working with your left hand to keep Alzheimer's disease away
5. Keep oneself economically independent in old age
6. Work unselfishly for the people in the society
7. Work to promote sustainability of the environment
8. Help create value for others, ensure customer satisfaction in what one delivers
9. Cultivate a growth mindset, to have a delta value addition or improvement every day
10. Develop a creative and innovative mindset.
11. Appreciate the good things around oneself in nature and thank people for their good deeds
12. Be very liberal in appreciating and complimenting people especially youngsters
If we practice these 12 points, I am sure we can have a great life.
George..
Saturday, November 21, 2020
MG Sreekumar, an invaluable asset to Malayalam music industry
Throughout this period of two years I have been impressed by the humble presence of MG Sreekumar. Though a great singer himself, he has a very tender and loving heart. Throughout these two years, he has never got upset at the performance of the children at the event.
During these two years he has never, even for a moment, tried to show off that he is a great singer, though the Malayalis world have great appreciation for his golden voice. Though he pulls the legs of fellow judges as much as he pulls the legs of the very young competitors too, never has he left any scar in these young tender minds.
After every performance he very softly points out the mistake, but reminds the singer that he/she is indeed very talented, only that the particular moment is not his/her's. Then he gently prods the singer to try his or her best again next time. I am sure the young singers very much like to hear such expert training sessions from the master.
Malayalees are very much upset that the greatest Malayalam singer Yesudas does not have any time to spare for the budding singers of Malayalam cinema, the result being that Yesudas will only be remembered for his songs but not for his humility or a helping mind. The selfless dedication of MG Sreekumar to shape and mould the future singing prodigies of Malayalam cinema is something remarkable and unforgettable. Malayalees world over will forever be indebted to MG.
I am sure Malayalees world over would agree with me and we all in one voice extend our deep appreciation and gratitude to MG Sreekumar for the great and selfless service and dedication to the Malayalam art world.
We will forever remember MG's great service in helping mould the future singing prodigies of the Malayalam singing world. A big Thanks Sir .. !!!
The kind gesture of inviting the child prodigies of season 1 as special guests to listen, prod and motivate the fresh singers of season 2 is also a first-in-the-world step in encouraging the youngsters .. A very kind gesture. No words can express our gratitude for the kindness Colours TV is showering on these young promising singers ..
george
Friday, November 13, 2020
Top 50 English pop songs of all time ..
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
How to overcome the trust deficit ??
Monday, October 5, 2020
Who is helping Malayalam music industry most, Yesudas or MG Sreekumar ?
Being a person with some basic training in Carnatic classical music, I have been following Malayalam music industry, both film music, light music, classical music for more than forty years now since my school days in Don Bosco Irinjalakuda.
I have great respect for Dr K J Yesudas, as a great singer but these days I get slowly disillusioned with his contributions to the music industry. The reasons are given below.
The singers like MG Sreekumar, M. Jayachandran etc. are taking part in talent shows of younger stars and are giving them great encouragement. But I do not see this encouragement and motivation coming from Yesudas Sir. Being a great father and a parent, Yesudas tries to promote his sons to the music industry, but rarely have I seen him promoting new budding talent.
Even though the whole Malayalam music world considers Yesudas Sir as a demiGod, why is Yesudas Sir turning his attention away from the youngsters, who have all potential to be singers better than Yesudas sir imself ? Why is he not motivating and encouraging youngsters in the music field ?
On the contrary, I am surprised and taken aback by the selfless support and encouragement given by
MG Sreekumar to the Malayalam music scene for the past many years. Sreekumar
takes great interest in motivating and promoting youngsters to the music
world.
In the past two years watching Top Singer musical talent programme on 24 channel on Flowers TV, I have full praise for MG Sreekumar for the great service he is doing to the music industry. The way Sreekumar motivates and encourages budding singers to do their best, to never mind if they commit mistakes, if they fail he motivates them to do better the next time and tries to be one among them. All these speak talks volumes of the great mind and good intentions of MG Sreekumar.
I have great respect for Sreekumar Sir as my elder brother, he is very valuable to the Malayalam music industry. Sadly Yesudas sir is showing signs of age and tiredness, does not care about budding newcomers.. I am extremely pained at telling this truth.
I bow my head in front of MG Sreekumar who is doing a great service to the Malayali youngsters. MG deserves the full support and respect of Malayalis from across the world as much as Yesudas sir, if not more ..
I hope Yesudas Sir would now devote more time with the budding singers of today motivating them, if so, posterity will be thankful and remember him for ever ..
George..
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Are we giving and taking respect in the Orthodox church ?
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Avoid the clergy in the feud - a creative solution to the Malankara Orthodox church factional feud ..
- For whom does a religion and a church exist, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who forms the congregation in the church. the clergy or the believers ?
- Who is funding the church, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who is donating the land for the church, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who is donating money to build the churches, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who is working for a salary from the church, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who are well informed and educated among the stakeholders, the clergy or the believers ?
- Whose ancestors are buried at the church tombs or cemeteries, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who gets on the road for the church, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who provides the money for any litigation, the clergy or the believers ?
- Who are the main beneficiaries from the church, the clergy or the believers ?
The whole rank and file of the clergy are existing just to serve the laity in the daily activities to help in prayers to the Lord..
The clergy has many important, saintly and saner things to do than fight on the roads or in the court .. The mismanagement that has happened over the past hundred years in this case, in my opinion, has been due to the unprofessional interference by the clergy who should have restricted themselves to spiritual things.
Following saner experience and understanding, let's keep the whole clergy from both sides, out of the picture and go for a consensus among the believers.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace - Mahatma Gandhi ๐๐๐๐
Friday, September 11, 2020
Education, the true healer ..
Sunday, August 9, 2020
You're my best friend - song recording with Jobin ..
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Losing jobs during Covid time..
Monday, June 22, 2020
Yoga and it's importance in my life..
Sunday, June 14, 2020
International Blood donation Day, June 14..
At the small function in St Johns Hospital. |
One of the elderly wellwishers was worried why blood donation at this time of global Covid infection, I calmed his sincere concerns after a brief talk.
Dr. Seetalakshmi was my host, though Dr. Jyoti Idiculla, HOD, Gen. Medicine and wife of my CET friend John Mathew was also present. Most of the speakers spoke of the virtues of blood donation.
One does not know who of them will benefit.. |
In the process of donation .. |
The many benefits of blood donation |
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Should churches in Kerala be opened now amdist the Covid scare ?
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Poem - in memory of George Floyd
Monday, June 1, 2020
George Floyd death - a pivotal point in US history, his death should not go in vain ..
US over the past one week has been reeling under street violence at the killing of a black, George Floyd, on the pretext of carrying a fake $20 bill. The charge was not proved but in the process of handcuffing him and taking him into custody, the Police officers acted with stated racist intentions and one of them Derek Chauvin pressed his knee against the neck of Floyd while he was constrained on the ground or almost seven minutes, ensuring he was killed. The video file showing the gruesome gory killing must have been seen by almost everyone interested in human rights.
Click here for a NY Times video ..
If we look at how the different races constitute the US population, the over dominance of the whites is very evident.
- Whites 61 %
- Hispanics and Latinos 19%
- Blacks 12% and
- Asians 8%.
- Is a black man still free to walk on American streets with his head held high without fear of intimidation and arrest by the Police ?
- Why always an attack on a Black man ends in use of so much force that it ends in loss of life, only of the black man ?
- Even after US getting formed almost 244 years back why is US still not able to provide sense of security to one of their minority groups ?
- Why anytime a crime is carried out, the finger of suspicion is first raised against a black man than a white man ?
- Why have the US government not been able to handle this racial prejudice against the black community members in US successfully and convincingly, even after Martin Luther King's exhortations fifty years back ?
- Why has the US President TRUMP not come up with a reassuring statement assuring the Blacks that their fundamental rights will be protected ?7. Is the US President's silence an indication of his moral complicity in this racial murder ?
The US citizens are forced to find a final solution. Hope they find a resolution to this issue of racial violence once for ever.
George..
Friday, May 22, 2020
Retiring this majestic bird ..
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Kumari and her heroics ..
Saturday, May 9, 2020
How Covid brought relatives and friends together ..
I have many relatives and friends in the western hemisphere. It was difficult tying to talk to them and even difficult to meet them as they were busy with their rich, successful, material, busy lives and we with ours.
But with the onset of the Covid virus, I got the golden opportunity to renew friendships, meet so many of my old classmates and relatives, who were earlier too busy to talk to us but now had the time and willingness to talk to us mortal beings on this past of the globe.
Covid virus, courtesy Harvard Medical School. |
The massive spread of the Corona virus in the western world and its ensuing deaths and grief in the western world shocked everyone around the world. While the virus was spreading like wildfire in the west, its spread was less in Asia and Europe. Is it a delayed contagion or reduced impact contagion, only time can tell.
How did Asian countries (other than China, who was excessively greedy and was looking at dominating the world) manage the successful containment through social preventive measures like a strictly deployed lockdown and social distancing in society help them to contain the spread of the virus. The politicians managed to convince the population of the urgency much better than in the west. In the west we could see people openly challenging the dictats of the government on roads and through the media. They were conveniently forgetting the fact that these strict containment measures were for the well being of the people.
The western world was taken aghast at how successfully we in India were able to comply with the strict social measures much more successully than in the west, to contain the spread of this virus and turned around to find out what we did right and what we did correctly. As of the time of writing this article, India has just 2100 deaths for a population of 1300 million compared to 80,000 plus in US with a population one fourth of India at 320 million. It clearly demonstrates the failure and lack of competitiveness and concern for the common man in the western society. Everything is based and measured on economic terms.
During the covid time, old friends started calling up and old friendships were renewed, which was a good thing. Now I feel for lasting peace in the world, we need to have more such viruses attacking the world more often, so that people do not forget their original humble backgrounds, friends and relatives. But I should say there were some true friends and relatives who were sincere in their relationships from beginning itself.
We need to understand that in this world, we are all together, no man is an island, we all live and die together.
With the threat of society taking more time to develop herd immunity and delay in coming out was a successful vaccine to contain the virus, the future picture does not look promising. With no successful cure in sight, the news of medical practitioners succumbing to the virus is another issue of concern. The complete surrender of humanity , irrespective of class, colour, creed and race, being rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, educated or illiterate, the kneeling down in front of the virus has been apalling, shocking, nauseating and sickening.
Humans behaving strangely an boastfully, forgetful of their helplessness in front of nature and God, has been there from time immemorial. How culture, education, knowledge and wisdom will take us forward as humans is what matters most.
George
Friday, May 8, 2020
Lubuntu 19.04 Linux for my 8 year old HP 430 laptop ..
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Why is US the cause of so much ridicule and derision ?
Friday, May 1, 2020
Tata's value system - living story ..
What steps should we focus post-Covid for a better world ?
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Were'nt we earthlings moving too fast ??
The Covid season has given us a lot of time over the past five weeks to find what went wrong with planet earth. It is golden opportunity for us earthlings to rethink and restrategise our priorities in the years ahead.
This is, as some body claimed, regeneration time for planet earth. It is silent time for the people of the world to sit back and look at the events of the past thirty or forty years which has been unnerving and has disturbed the global ecological balance.
It all boils down to the ecological imbalance and disturbance which our over-consumerist lifestyle have done on the society. If we have close look at the death toll across countries, we find cultures that have been over-exploitative of natural resources, over-indulgent of pleasures and over-obsessed with the personal rights and freedoms of individuals over the greater common good, have suffered maximum. It teaches us a great truth, personal liberty cannot override societal welfare.
We were exploiting natural resources too fast, we were killing other inhabitants of planet earth, the animals, flora and fauna, too fast to suit our over materialistic, consumerist life style.
We were exploring and finding newer and newer ways to exploit natural resources, oil, gas, minerals, ores, metals etc. at rates unprecedented in the history of planet earth.
Planet Earth will take some more time to heal itself. the rivers and streams need to get cleaned up, the fishes and corals of the oceans need to feel the fresh water with raised levels of dissolved Oxygen, the air needs to feel fresh with less pollutants, the atmosphere need to feel less the burden of green house gases, less heating up of the atmosphere, less melting of the polar ice caps, the list is endless ...
The domesticated livestock, dairy farm animals and specially the poultry in billions around the world need to feel safer, less exploited, threatened and allowed to survive, to make this planet as green, as pleasant and livable for all living beings..
Our materialistic consumerist lifestyle has taught us many life lessons. Let us take a new pledge to
- disturb our environment less
- to live and let other flora and fauna on earth to live
- to exploit the non-renewable natural mineral and oil, gas resources at a lesser rate
- to reduce our killing of animals and over harvesting of the oceans of fishes and thus reduce over craving for non-veg food
- help develop environmentally sustainable innovative technologies
- to rethink our development models and patterns
George
Thursday, April 23, 2020
A, B, C classification of Covid countries ..
Friday, April 17, 2020
Collection of all English oldies ..
Best Songs of All Time 1
Best Songs of All Time 2
Best Songs of All Time 3
Enjoy the oldies ..
George..