kurian's New Age Blog

Education   has been a hotly  debated issue  in South Africa for a long  time, and  there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. It was the student uprising in  Soweto in 1976 , which was triggered  by the imposition  as  Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in Black schools , and  which spread like wildfire costing  about 600 lives , that  brought the apartheid problem under the international  spotlight, and  served as a catalyst to the speedy downfall  of  apartheid. About  40 years  have passed since the  historic  uprising , but the problems in education  haven't been  solved. Despite  huge spending  on education since  1994, when  South Africa became a free and  democratic  country, millions of  black people, especially in the rural areas and in the townships, have been excluded from the fruits of  the new dispensation  due to the  lack of quality  education.  The   discontent  among the poor  occasionally  erupts in the  form  of  'service  delivery

Today, Kerala has a good  story  to  tell, unlike the usual stories of gloom  and doom.The  Kerala  police  has done a sterling  job by  tracking down the most elusive, most brutal and most cunning and  heartless  criminal, "Aadu  Antony'' , whose name and images used to send shock-waves  down the spine of every  law-abiding Malayalee. This latest feat of the Kerala  Police has added another feather to its cap, only two weeks after the tracking down and  arrest of the killer of  Sister  Amala. Both  these achievements of the Kerala Police have boosted people's faith in the Force,who are increasingly using  scientific methods to track  down criminals. This  raises the Kerala Police's reputation to international  levels, comparable to any Police Force in the world. The arrest  of  Aaadu  Antony  can be seen in three perspectives. First, it gives a strong  signal  to hardened criminals  that they have nowhere to hide,in India or abroad.The long