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വെടി വഴിപാട് ഇയര്ഫോണ് വഴിയാക്കണം
സുശീല് കുമാര് പി പി യുടെ ചാര്വാകം എന്ന മലയാളം ബ്ലോഗ്ഗില് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച് ഈ കാലിക പ്രസക്തിയേറിയ ലേഖനം വായിക്കൂ.
ഇത്രയും കര്ശനമായ നിയമത്തെ ആരാധനാലയങ്ങള് എത്ര നഗ്നമായാണ് ലംഘിക്കുന്നത്? അധികാരികള് അതിനു നേരെ കണ്ണടയ്ക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. മണ്ഡല കാലത്ത് ലൗഡ് സ്പീക്കര് പുറത്തേക്കുതിരിച്ചുവെച്ച് ഉച്ഛത്തില് സിനിമഗാനങ്ങള് തുറന്നുവിടുന്നു. ഭജനകളായാലും മതപ്രഭാഷണങ്ങളായാലും എല്ലാ മതക്കാരും യാതൊരു നിയന്ത്രണവുമില്ലാതെ ലൗഡ് സ്പീക്കര് ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ജനത്തെ ശല്യം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
വായിച്ചാല് മാത്രമായില്ല്, നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങളും രേഖപ്പെടുത്താം.
http://charvaakam.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html
Swine flu & Art of Living!
പന്നി പനിയെ നേരിടാന് ആര്ട്ട് ഓഫ് ലിവിങ്ങോ ?
ഇതു നല്ല തമാശ. പന്നി പനിയെ നേരിടാന് ആര്ട്ട് ഓഫ് ലിവിങ്ങോ ? അതും ഇത് എഴുതി വെയ്ക്കുന്നത് ഒരു ഡോക്ടര് ആയാലോ? ജനങ്ങളെ തെറ്റുധരിപ്പിക്കാന് എന്തുവേണം?
കഷ്ടം തന്നെ !
തത്തമംഗലത്ത് പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെട്ട പോസ്റ്ററുകളില് ഒന്ന്
ആപ്പിള് വില്ക്കുന്നവനും എഴുതുവയ്ക്കാമല്ലോ, ദിവസവും ഒരു ആപ്പിള് കഴിക്കൂ, പന്നി പനിയെ നേരിടൂ, എന്ന് !
ആര്ക്കും എന്തും എഴുതിവെച്ച് കച്ചവടം കൊഴിപ്പിക്കാം. ഹോമിയോപതിക്കാരും വച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട് ഒരു ബോര്ഡ്, 10 രൂപക്ക് പന്നി പനി വരുന്നത് തടയാമെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ് ! ജനങ്ങളെ പറ്റിക്കാന് പല പല മാര്ഗ്ഗങ്ങളെന്നല്ലാതെ എന്തു പറയാന് !
PLEASE STOP MAKING FALSE CLAIMS !
63rd Independence day @ Tattamangalam
Another Fake “God”
തത്തമംഗലത്ത് ഒരുകാലത്ത് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന ഉണ്ണി “ദൈവത്തെ“ പോലെ ഇതാ കൊട്ടാരക്കരയിലെ മര്ദ്ദന ദൈവം.
source: YouTube.com & Kaippally
Post office Wall – വൃത്തിക്കേടാക്കിയ പോസ്റ്റ് ഓഫീസ് മതില്
വൃത്തിക്കേടാക്കിയ തത്തമംഗലം പോസ്റ്റ് ഓഫീസ് മതില്
tattamangalam post office
സിനിമാ പോസ്റ്ററുകള് കൊണ്ട് നിറഞ്ഞ തത്തമംഗലം പോസ്റ്റ് & ടെലിഗ്രാഫ് ഓഫീസ് ( Post and Telegraph Office ) ഗവര്ണ്മെന്റ് സ്ഥാപനങ്ങളില് ആര്ക്ക് വേണമെങ്കിലും എന്തു വേണമെങ്കിലും ചെയ്യാം എന്ന അവസ്ഥയാണ് ഇപ്പോള് . ആരും ചോദിക്കാനും പറയാനും ഇല്ല. !
പോസ്റ്റ് ഓഫീസ് ആയകാരണം ആയിരിക്കും, പോസ്റ്റ് പതിച്ചത് !
The “Sree Sree”
Kalanathan’s speech on Sree Sree Ravishanker and his Sudharsana Kriya
Tattamangalam Salute these BraveHearts .
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan
Noise Pollution – Implementation of the Laws for restricting use of loudspeakers and high volume producing sound systems
Below given is a copy of the Supreme court of India’s judgment on restriction the use of loudspeakers.
CASE NOTE HIGHLIGHT
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Writ Petition (C) No. 72 of 1998 with Civil Appeal No. 3735 of 2005 [Arising out of SLP
(C) No. 21851/2003]
Decided On: 18.07.2005
Appellants: In Re: Noise Pollution – Implementation of the Laws for restricting use
of loudspeakers and high volume producing sound systems
Vs.
Respondent:
WITH
Appellants: Forum, Prevention of Envn. and Sound Pollution
Vs.
Respondent: Union of India (UOI) and Anr.
Hon’ble Judges: R.C. Lahoti, C.J. and Ashok Bhan,
Counsels:
Raju Ramachandran, Additional Solicitor General (NP), Jitendra Sharma (AC), N.N. Goswami, Rajiv Dutta, G.L. Sanghi, P.N. Mishra and R. Mohan, Sr. Advs., Sandeep Narain (AC), Anil Kumar Mittal, Anjali Jha, M.K.S. Menon, M.K. Michael, Indra Sawhney, Meenakshi Arora, P. Parmeswaran, Anil Katiyar, A. Francis Julian, A. Subhashini, D.S. Mahra, Ashok Bhan, Varuna Bhandari Gungnani, Vijay Panjwani, K.R. Sasiprabhu (NP), Jagjit Singh Chhabra (NP), Sanjay V.S. Choudhury, Niraj Kumar, V.K. Sidharthan, P.V. Yogeswaran, S. Ravi Shankar, Yamunah Nachiar and M.A. Chinnaswamy, Advs. for the appearing parties
Subject: Constitution
Subject: Environment
Catch Words: Abatement, Accused, Acquisition, Ad Hoc Basis, Administrative Action, Air Pollution, Air Quality Standard, Aircraft Noise, Allowance, Atmospheric Pollution, Composition, Conduct of Business, Constitution of India, Construction Site, Criminal Prosecution, Damage, Decent Environment, Definition, Discrimination, Domestic Noise, Duration, Educational Institution, Emergency, Emission, Emission Standard, Enforcement of Fundamental Right, Enforcement of Law, Environment Agency, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Protection, Existing Law, Federation, Freedom of Speech, Fundamental Duties, Fundamental Right, Guarantee, Interim Order, International Agreement, Issuance of Direction, Jurisdiction, Legal Action, Legal Aid, Legislation, Liberty, Life and Personal Liberty, Mandamus, Motor Vehicle, National Parks, Neighbourhood Noise, Noise Abatement, Noise Pollution, Non-Scheduled Premise, Personal Liberty, Pollution Control, Public Health, Public Interest, Public Interest Litigation, Public Nuisance, Quality Standard, Reasonable Restriction, Regulation, Representation, Right to Life, Right to Live, Road Traffic, Scheduled Premises, Special Area, Special Leave Petition, Statutory Nuisance, Temple, The Executive, Third Schedule, Union Territories, Writ of Mandamus
Acts/Rules/Orders:
Constitution of India – Articles 19, 19(1), 19(1)A, 19(10), 21, 25, 141 and 142; Noise Pollution Control and Regulation Rules, 1999; Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 – Section 2; Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 – Section 2; Noise Abetment Act, 1960 – Section 2; Control on Pollution Act, 1974; Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act, 1993; Noise Control Act, 1975; Noise Control (Miscellaneous Articles) Regulations, 1995; Noise Control (Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Accessories) Regulations, 1995; Noise Control Ordinance; Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 – Rule 3; Indian Penal Code, 1860 – Sections 95, 268, 290 and 291; Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973 – Section 133; Factories Act, 1948 – Sections 89 and 90; Motor Vehicles Act, 1988; Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 – Rules 119 and 120; Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 1999; Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 – Rule 89; Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 1987; Explosive Rules, 1983 – Rule 87; Explosives Act, 1884; Madras Town Nuisances Act, 1889
Cases Referred:
Free Legal Aid Cell Shri Sugan Chand Aggarwal alias Bhagatji v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Ors., MANU/DE/0654/2001; P.A. Jacob v. Superintendent of Police, Kottayam, MANU/KE/0001/1993; Om Birangana Religious Society v. State, 100 CWN 617; Kirori Mal Bishambar“ Dayal v. The State, MANU/PH/0003/1958; Bhuban Ram and Ors. v. Bibhuti Bhushan Biswas, AIR 1919 Calcutta 539; Ivour Heyden v. State of Andhra Pradesh, 1984 Cri LJ (NOC) 16; Rabin Mukherjee v. State of West Bengal, MANU/WB/0058/1985; People United for better Living in Calcutta v. State of West Bengal, MANU/WB/0025/1993; Burrabazar Fireworks Dealers Association v. Commissioner of police, Calcutta, MANU/WB/0078/1997; Appa Rao, M.S. v. Govt. of T.N. , (1995) 1 LW 319 (Mad); The Supreme Court in Church of God (Full Gospel) in India v. K.K.R. Majestic Colony Welfare Assn., MANU/SC/0537/2000; Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India, MANU/SC/0285/1990; M.C. Mehta v. Union of India, MANU/SC/1081/2003; Moulana Mufti Syed Md. Noorur Rehman Barkati v. State of West Bengal, MANU/WB/0211/1998
Casenote
Environment – noise pollution – Articles 19, 19(1), 19(1)A, 19(10), 21, 25, 141 and 142 OF Constitution of India , Noise Pollution Control and Regulation Rules, 1999, Section 2 of Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, Section 2 of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, Section 2 of Noise Abetment Act, 1960, Control on Pollution Act, 1974, Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act, 1993, Noise Control Act, 1975, Noise Control (Miscellaneous Articles) Regulations, 1995, Noise Control (Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Accessories) Regulations, 1995, Noise Control Ordinance, Rule 3 of Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 – petition seeking stringent implementation of laws pertaining to noise pollution – Apex Court considering gravity of matter issued following direction – firecrackers to be evaluated on basis of chemical composition – Department of Explosive (DOE) directed to conduct study for this purpose and to specify composition of chemicals allowable in firecrackers – firecrackers to be divided into light emitting and sound emitting category – complete ban on bursting sound emitting firecrackers between 10 pm and 6 am – manufacturers of firecrackers directed to mention on box of firecrackers the components used in it – manufacturers to be held liable in case formulae used by them does not match with specification of DOE – manufacturers permitted to export firecrackers with higher noise level subject to strict control – regarding use of loudspeaker Court directed that noise level at boundary of public place, where loudspeaker or public address system or any other noise source is being used shall not exceed 10 dB(A) above ambient noise standards for area or 75 dB(A) whichever is lower – beating of drum or tom-tom or blow of trumpet or beat or sound of any instrument or use of any sound amplifier at night (between 10. 00 p.m. and 6.a.m.) except in public emergencies prohibited – peripheral noise level of privately owned sound system restricted to dB(A) – blowing of vehicular horn in residential area at night hours prohibited – State directed to add chapters in text books regarding ill effects of noise pollution -State directed to specify ambient air quality standards in different areas – State also directed to seize loud speakers and amplifiers making noise beyond permissible limit.
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Other useful readings:
- http://www.elaw.org/resources/text.asp?id=1835
Conditions for grant of loudspeaker licence, as set out by the Bench, are as follows
(1) Amplifiers can be used only between 9 A.M. To 10.30 P.M. and for
3 hours at a time. The duration of 3 hours is relaxable under special circumstances. (2) No extension speaker should be put up outside the premises for which the licence is issued. Relaxable in the case of temples, churches and mosque on some occasions. (3) Only Box type speaker should be used. (4) The volume should be such low that it is not heard outside the premises.
(5) If any misuse is noticed licence will be cancelled. (6) The installation of loudspeakers and mike sets for which the licence is issued should be done only by an electrical contractor having at least a valid “B” Contractor’s licence issued by the Electrical Licensing Board of the State and operated only by a person having a wiremen competency certificate issued by the Electrical licensing Board. Non compliance of the condition is not only punishable under the Madras City Police Act but also under the Indian Electricity Rules, 1 956 for violation of Rule 36 thereof.
(7) No sound amplifier shall face and no person shall use a sound amplifier, within (prescribe) the limits of hospital, place of worship or an educational institution.
(8) Any Police Officer on duty above the rank of Head Constable may require any party to stop using or remove any sound amplifier the using of which, may be a nuisance or cause obstruction and it shall be stopped or removed as the case may be immediately.
(9) Any Police Officer on duty above the rank of Head Constable may seize any sound amplifier or other instrument used in amplifying which has been or appears to have been used in contravention of any of the conditions stipulated.
(10) Loudspeakers should not be allowed to be installed on towers and temple walls, churches and mosques, so as to face the surrounding streets and areas, should be installed within the precincts and turned inwards so that the music is audible only within the precincts of the temple/church/mosque. Exemption will be given during the month of Ramzan when the calls of the Muazzine for prayers is traditionally made from the mosque tower.” This decision has been approved by the Supreme Court in CHURCH OF GOD IN INDIA v.. K.K.R. MAJESTIC COLONY WELFARE ASSOCIATION [AIR 20 00 SC
2773 : 2000 (7) SCC 282].
Must read Atheist quotes
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
- Christopher Hitchens
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence
- Infinity0
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike
- Delos McKown
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky
- George Carlin
Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; Give him a religion, and he will starve to death while praying for a fish
- Unknown
Everyone starts outs being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything.
-Andy Rooney
Religion does three things quite effectively: divides people, controls people, deludes people.
- Carlespie McKinney
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense .
- Chapman Cohen
By Simple common sense, I do not believe in god
- Charlie Chaplin
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails fo the last priest.
- Denis Diderot
All thinking men are atheists.
- Ernest Hemingway
There are two classes of men: Intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence
- Abu Ala Al-Ma’arri
Faith means not wanting to know what is true
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but i reject them all .
- Gene Roddenberry
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought
- Henry Mencken
Atheism is the voice of a few intelligent people.
- Voltaire
Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we are just making him madder .
- Homer Simpson
Prayer has no place in public school, just like facts have no place in organized religion.
- Superintendent Charlmers
Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in you church.
-Unkonwn
Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.
-Thomas Jefferson
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, or of a god.
-Thomas Edison
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
- Baron D’Holbach
People who don’t like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn’t have such funny beliefs.
- Unknown
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
- Voltaire
An idea does not gain truth as it gains followers.
-Amanda Blom
Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Karl Marx
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
- Tom Robbins
The first requisite of the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- Karl Marx
Religion is against women’s right. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
-Taslima Nasrin
The bible and church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation.
- Elizabeth C.Stanton
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
-Susan B Anthony
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
- Frederick Douglass
The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail.
-Gustaf Lindborg
Every man thinks god is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
-Jean Anouilh
Organized religion is a sham and crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
-Jesse Ventura
Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things spontaneously by herself without their meddling.
- Lucretius
This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.
- John Adams
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
-James Madison
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
- John Stuart Mill
Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.
- Mark Twain
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
-Richard Dawkins
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
-Richard Dawkins
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful .
- Seneca
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quite.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
-Thomas Paine
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
-Blaise Pascal
All religions have been made by men.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
gods always behave like the people who created them.
-Zora Hurston
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
-Benjamin Franklin
“If ignorance of Nature gave birth to gods, then knowledge of Nature is calculated to destroy them.”
- Baron D’Holbach
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
-Benjamin Disraeli
You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
- Dan Barker
You can’t convince a believer of anything; their belief is not based on evidence but a deep-seated need to believe.
-Carl Sagan
I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
- James Buchanan
Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
-Thoman Jefferson
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
-Sigmund Freud
Believing in gods always causes confusion.
-Pearl S. Buck
It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however reassuring.
-Carl Sagan
The most heinous crimes have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
-Gandhi
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
- Mark Twain
For much of history, religion may have been a necessary evil, but why has it been more evil than necessary?
-Arthur C . Clarke
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
- Ilka Chase
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity . Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
-Sigmund Freud.
Faith is the determination to remain ignorant in the face of all evidence that you are ignorant.
-Shaun Mason
The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.
-Robert Ingersoll
The greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called religion.
- Thomas Paine
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call god; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
- Edward Abbey
All natural institutions of churches, appear to me human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind.
-Thoman Pain
When you understand why you dismiss all the other gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Doctrines like Christanity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
-Edward Abbey
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
-Baron D’Holbach