Height of Poltical Freedom

I have not heard about Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (IIHT). Nevertheless, it is situated in Kannur, Kerala & is an educational institution of higher learning afficilated to AICTE. On the lines of 'Ecole De Mine' of France (Please correct me if the spelling is wrong), it comes under Industry Ministry of Government of Kerala. The French institution is equivalent to IITs in India. Going by that standard, IIHT must also be having quite good standing. After the change of vanguard in the Kerala Government, a particular political party of the ruling United Democratic Front decided to post one of their party office bearer as one of the top executives in the institute.
Normally one expects a person with political leaning but with commendable academic track record in these kinds of postings. However things did not auger well here. The academic community is in fear of losing institute's accreditation as new appointee do not have any technical qualification. The fresh appointee had advocated for freedom of government to post anyone citing reasons of political appointments in various public sector undertakings in the state under diferent ministries. Whether chairmanship of a defunct/loss making corporation offerred as sop to political aspriants should be allowed to go this far into academic institutions is a big question.
Hope wisdom prevails & such unncessary interventions be completely abolished by all political parties.

Musings

Hello !
"Tempus Fugit". Well had been to barber shop yesterday. Thats a place where people get a hair cut right?. One good thing about these shops is that they place a number of mirrors in strategic positions so that you can view your head from different angles. It aids in customer satisfaction under normal circumstances especially if you want to have exotic designs on your head. These are kind of seasonal too. One will find many shapes and colours on heads during a cricket or football match season.
Once you enter into so called middle years of your life, these very objects of customer satisfaction becomes a pain. At these ages, number of hair falling down far more exceed those trying to grow on your scalp. I guess we can forget about the growing part once you enter into forties. Those with a St.Antony pattern of baldness are good to look at from the front. Take a bird's eye view, the picture changes dramatically. Alas, this is what bothered me in the hair cutting session ;-)

Even though there are many brands of hair oil/revitaliser, nothing seems to be working if we go by the heads around. Then why bother ?

Treasure trove at Padmanabhaswamy temple

Erstwhile kings of Travancore Dynasty were ruling their land as servants of Lord Padmanabha. They were good at governance and many more things. It seems dynasty used to keep a corpus for exigencies such famine, war etc. Probably things were kept geographically scattered. Since Temple of Lord Padmanabha was of great reverence, a good lot of treasures were kept there in cellars. These days in the wake of a court order, an exercise is being done to enumerate them. Now that all these information is coming into open, security might have to be strengthened!!

P.S.
Whenever a change at the government occurs these days, the party that comes into power cries about the empty coffers. May them learn from the wisdom of old kings