India Today Malayalam Magazine - September 19 2012

In this issue

Highlights of India Today Malayalam dated September, 19,2012. It looks at the emerging controversies surrounding the much hyped investment fair emerging Kerala 2012 which is supposed to attract investments to Kerala. As it turns out many of them are old ideas packaged in new bottle, or investments meant to grab land or faces environmental problems. The story questions Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and has very incisive piece by K P Kannan, eminent economist. The issue has also an exclusive investigation into the suicides of farmers in Kerala and inquires why it happened for a long time in Kerala Agriculture minister K P Mohnan blames the farmers themselves and there is a scathing column by Mullakkara Rathnankran, former agriculture minister Varghese Thodu prambil, an activist offers another glimpse into the life and travails of a farmer. There is a big story on the job hiring on a freeze which is bad news for an economy which is witnessing indications of financial stgflation. Fraud hiring companies add to the woe of the aspiring jobseekers.There is also a travelogue through the crisis ridden banks of Brahmaputra an d looks at the plight of Assamise .Sivakasi firecracker tragedy is reported from the killing filelds. There is also a big story on rural achievers who made it big like Saba Hami, Vijayabahaskar Reddy,Sonia Suryavamsi and others who have been a beacon to the rural folks.