Thomas Geeverghese

Advocate @ Kerala High Court / Blogger / Movie-buff / Tech Geek / Born Critic / Ideologically Congress / Casually Serious !!

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Malayalam commentary of #FifaWordcup is far superior than English commentary in @ZEE5India

#FIFA #WordCup

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

BJP is selling everything, including ports and courts..!

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

BIG: So @rautsanjay61 goes public with a sensational charge that was only until now being whispered in Maharashtra power corridors. One of the Sena (UBT) MPs Om Raje Nimbalkar he claims was told that if he wants a favourable verdict in his father’s murder case in special CBI court, he has to switch sides. The verdict was to come yesterday and has been pushed now to 19th. If true, it raises a very troubling Qs: are court verdicts also now decided by party loyalties?

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

They are leaving because Bangladesh has better per capita income than India..!

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Really? And they came in on your watch & are leaving on your watch? Either you are the biggest liar or the most incompetent HM. One of the two. Or both actually.

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

#athiradi > #drishyam3

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Pinarayi Vijayan orchestrated the ED raid to force the communist minions to close ranks behind him, and to solidify his position as the Leader of Opposition..!

#edraids

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

The government has taken down our iconic website - https://t.co/ELmb4ZlEed.

10 Lakh cockroaches had signed up on our website has members.

6 Lakh cockroaches had signed a petition to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.

Why is the government so scared of cockroaches? But this dictatorial behaviour is opening the eyes of India's youth. Our only crime is we were demanding a better future for ourselves.

But you can't get rid of us that easily. We’re working on a new home right now. Cockroaches never die. 🪳

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

വളരെയധികം ഡിഗ്രേഡ് ചെയ്ത ഒരു സിനിമ.. ഞാൻ കണ്ടിട്ട് ഒരുപാട് ചിരിക്കാൻ ഒക്കെ ഉണ്ട്! (3*/5)
#dhyansreenivasan #aapkaiseho

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Digitisation of lower courts in Kerala is on a superior league..

Efiled a new suit in the Vacation Court yesterday at 10.30pm. It got scrutinized by 4.40am early morning today.

Kerala Courts now function 24x7 !

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

"They can vote next time".

This statement, and the Judge who said this, have entered the history books for ever.

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

What is wrong with this judge..? Excessive ego to mask his bad English!

[Anna A. Oommen @oommenanna07]

Deeply disturbing to see a newly enrolled lawyer to be treated in such a manner. What is more troubling is that the Bar couldn’t even stand up for one of its own!

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

@RahulGandhi @INCIndia

[@Abmashu17 @Ab_Mashu_17]

Dear Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge,

I write this as a heartfelt Congress supporter from Kerala, someone who stood with the party even in its toughest times and believed in its revival.

Today we stand at a decisive moment.

We humbly but firmly request you to choose V. D. Satheesan as our Chief Minister.

For the past five years he fought relentlessly against LDF, against BJP and against decline within our own ranks. He rebuilt confidence, brought cadres back and led us to a historic mandate of 102 seats. That victory belongs to his leadership and the trust people placed in him.

This is not the time for compromises.

We do not want power sharing formulas.
We do not want a Deputy CM arrangement.
We want clear and strong leadership.

Choosing leaders like K. C. Venugopal or Ramesh Chennithala now will only divide the message Kerala has clearly given.

V D Satheesan has been overlooked many times in KSU, Youth leadership and party president roles. Yet he never rebelled. He never built factions. He never created MLA groups for personal power.

He will not have MLAs to raise hands for him because he never built a personal MLA group inside the party. His sole aim has always been to bring the party back to governance.

Especially to you, Sonia ji, when the party was at its weakest with barely 50 seats, you entrusted him with the responsibility of Leader of Opposition. He stood up to that trust, fought with dignity and strength, and today has brought the party back to a position of power. He fulfilled the responsibility you gave him. Now we humbly ask you to give him what he truly deserves, the Chief Minister’s chair.

That is exactly why he deserves this responsibility.

He is visionary and widely accepted across caste, religion and generations and is capable of leading a stable government respected by all MLAs.

If you want stability choose him.
If you want respect choose him.
If you want this government to last choose him.

Otherwise we fear instability, internal friction and a repeat of mistakes seen in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka.

Kerala has trusted you again. Please do not let that trust fade.

Stand with the people’s choice. Stand with V D Satheesan.

We request. We hope. We believe you will listen.

A Congress supporter from Kerala

#iStandWithVDSatheesan #CMVDS

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Masterstroke!

[Arvind Kejriwal @ArvindKejriwal]

In all humility and with complete respect for judiciary, I have written the following letter to Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma, informing her that pursuing Gandhian principles of Satyagraha, it won’t be possible for me to pursue this case in her court, either in person or through a counsel.

I have taken this difficult decision after coming to the clear conclusion that the proceedings being conducted in her court do not, in any manner, satisfy the fundamental principle that ‘justice must not only be done but must also be seen to be done’. My participation in these proceedings, either myself or through a counsel will not achieve anything meaningful.

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Bring compulsory tree cover in Building Rules..n

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Then don't publish regular roster of judges as well..! It will also reduce forum shopping..! #KerHC #StupidDecisions

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Children of Judges being appointed as Government Counsels is a way to influence the judge, and it is definitely a threat to independence of the judiciary!

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

[BREAKING] Delhi High Court asks Police to remove videos of Arvind Kejriwal arguing before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma

report by @prashantjha996

https://t.co/hxdO5Ofp5N

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

Finally, the judiciary is making a U Turn, and taking a stand for rendering justice..! Big win for the persecuted Jacobites..!

Judgment of KS Varghese v. St Peter's & St. Paul's Church, rendered by corrupt Arun Mishra J, stands diluted !

#MalankaraChurch #ChurchDispute

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It took 7years for the KerHC to properly notify Commercial courts! To understand the mistake of notifying Sub courts as commercial courts, it took 4years! All these time, poor litigants got strangled, in maintainability issues!

[Bobcares @BobcaresTweets]

Updating content shouldn’t slow growth.
Headless CMS helped this enterprise move faster — update once, deliver everywhere.

Let's talk: https://t.co/cYI4sVit5L

#ModernWeb #Bobcares

[Thomas Geeverghese @advptg]

#SarvamMayaMovie is a beautiful feel good movie.. Nivin Pauli is baack..! (4.5*/5)

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Booked first day show, just to protest #MobTrial !
#കോടതിക്കൊപ്പം
#Dileep #BhaBhaBha