our beloved mother left for ever...
on
15th April 1994 at the age of 69..
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Dedicated to
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Our beloved father left for ever.....
on 12th March 2011 at the age of
92..
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My Country
I am from India, a wonderful country of
diverse cultures and a variety of people including the most beautiful women in the world
(Miss. world, Miss. Universe). A country, where there is Unity in Diversity and where
about 16% of World's population reside (more than 1000 million). And I am proud of being
one of them.
- India therefore is perceived as a "Whole of
Civilization" and not a mere "country"
My
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I am from the south Indian State of Kerala, popularly known as GODS OWN
COUNTRY, a land of backwaters and rivers. There are 41 rivers. It has an area of 38,863
sq.km having 14 districts and its population is about 30 million. In between the high
western ghats (mountains) on the east and the Arabian sea on the west, the width of my
state varies from 35 km to 120 km. It is one of the smallest and the most literate
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Rivers are mainly rainfed and small; many are almost dry in summer.
Backwaters include lakes and sea inlets. The biggest backwater lake is Vembanad having an
area of around 200 sq.km opening into the Arabian sea at Kochi port. On geographical basis, Kerala can be divided into 3 regions, the highlands,
the midlands and the lowlands. The highland is composed of hills, thickly wooded with teak
and rubber and fully covered with carefully nurtured plantations of cardamom, coffee, tea,
spices etc sloping down from the western ghats with some peaks rising to more than 1800
metres. Midlands is flourished with pepper, sugarcane, coconut, banana, cashew,
ginger etc. Its heart is composed of intensive green paddy fields and a unique network of
rivers. Fisheries, coir weaving and coconut farming are the main enterprises in the
lowlands and is bordered by a chain of unbroken palm-fringed beachline. When monsoon
breaks over Kerala, the highlands are covered by mist and all its 44 rivers overflow.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people of Kerala.
It is the major producer of coconut, rubber, cardamom, pepper, ginger, cocoa, cashew
etc. Banana, pineapple, mango and jackfruit are the major fruit crops of my state. Kerala
is the happy abode of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism. St. Thomas, the Apostle
brought Christianity to Kerala in AD 52 and then established 7 churches in different parts
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- My Village
My village is on the bank of the
river Kuppam ("Kuppam Puzha") not far away from her origin at North of
Malabar in Kannur District. It is endowed with pristine natural beauty covered with small
hills and with green valleys of rubber plantation and coconut groves. It is
wonderful , calm & quite in all aspects. The wild life centre very near to my
place on the bank of the river also reflects the beauty of my village extending to
its people the tranquillity of life. People are happy and life is not hectic Present Domicile Country
- My present domicile country is Germany consists of 16
states. It is the 8th richest country in the world on the basis of per capita income
with a population of about 80 million. The weather is pleasant except in winter
months November to April. During winter snowfall is common and the temperature goes down
to about minus 20 to 25° Centigrade.
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- Present Domicile City
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- It is one of the famous cities in Europe . It is
Frankfurt on the river Main (Frankfurt am Main) with
an international financial centre having a number of banks, the stock exchange, German
Central Bank and the European Central Bank. Frankfurt is the venue for numerous
international trade fairs including world's largest book fair. Frankfurt is popular with
its Rhine-Main Airport, which already ranks first among Europe's in
volume of cargo and second in number of passengers.
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Personal
Interests
- My Thoughts & Wishes
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Sometimes, my thoughts and wishes fly away beyond the
reality of life and finally land in a virtual world of imagination and vision. I know it
is mere imagination currently but I wish they may become reality. I would like to mention
some of them here.
1. Single World: a single sky; with a single language and a
single currency - All the approx. six billion people on earth should be allowed to live in
any place of the earth without any restriction of country or any imaginary boundary. There
is only one country; that is the country of the Human Being. There should be only one
language - to understand each other and one currency - to buy any thing in any place on
the earth for the same price. And there should be one government not on earth; but in
space.
2. The full data of around six billion people on the earth
should be fed into a super computer and connected to the satellite system which can point
out at any time the position of each person on earth. Each one should be supplied with a
device which can be attached on the body and can be operated easily with finger/voice
activated to send or receive messages from the satellite system at any time for any
assistance, support and protection.
3. There would be a super scientist to come with his new
invention - An invention to analyse the whole history of the earth from the air (blank
space) including the voice of each and everybody who lived on this earth (As per the super
scientist's vision, each and every action is still there on the air) and it can be
extracted and can be played back on a screen.
4. Then there will be no violence; no injustice; no
corruption. And all will be happy and satisfied in their very short period of lifetime on
the earth when compared to the duration of lifetime of' the Universe. To calculate this
duration of life period of a human being, a super computer processor should be
created.
- My Hobbies
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- My main hobbies are fiddling with the computer, web surfing
and writing articles in Malayalam Language. Here is a sample of my
SHORT STORIES and
POEMS
. I feel that this homepage itself reveals the nature of my
hobbies.
My
Friends
My School & College Friends :
Though I had a large number of friends and acquaintances from my
school and college life, unfortunately I now have limited links with my old friends and I
would like to build up my lost friendship. To name some of them: Joppan,
Josekutty, Manikutty, Ousep, Manuel, Puthiaparambil, Reddy, Usman etc. I
don't know where they are now and I wish I could trace some of them through this Home
Page.
My present friends: I
have friends among people from my native country as well as my current domicile country.
Family
History
Recently our family history has been published
in Malayalam language. It was a difficult task. My congratulation goes to its Editor
Rev. Fr. Francis Myladoor and the members of the publishing committee. As an indication of
my appreciation and gratitude I have put up a few pages of the family history on
this webpage.
Click here
for a short preview of our
Family History
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Finally
about me.
I was born in a village very near to the Idukki Power House
at Moolamattam and attended school at Marigiri, Thalavu, Arippara, Edappady,
Bharanamganam, Kanjar, Arakulam, Moolamattam, Chapparapadavu and Angamally.University
studies at Bharat Matha College,- Thrikkakara, St. Thomas College,- Palai, and
Agra College, -Agra.
I was employed in India for a very short duration at
Kalloorkad, as a supervisor of a pineapple processing factory, at Alakode & Aligarh as
a teacher in English. At present I work in an office in Frankfurt, Germany.
My grand father migrated from Meenachil Taluk to
Moolamattam and then my father and his brothers to North Malabar in Kannur District in the
year 1958.
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