Fish Thrown Away on The Beach By Sea Waves

On 2^nd of February 2014, during early evening hours, a rare incident was witnessed on the sea beach of Kadapara, at Kasaragod district of Kerala. This beach is situated on the Arabian Sea in the west coast of India.

At around 4 O’clock in the early evening hours, a huge quantity of fish were thrown on the Kadapara beach by the recurrent rising high tide waves. According to the estimation, not less than a ton (i.e.,1000 Kgs) of fish might have been thrown on the 1 KM beach of Kadapra. The fish were alive after splashing out of the sea and spread on the beach. It was an unexpected bonanza for the people strolling on the beach to grab handful of fish as gift from the sea.

Fishermen hamlet rose getting the news and ran for the effortless prize from the sea. They stacked fish in their gunny bags, baskets and whatever they can to collect as much as until the last fish was fished out of the beach.  Eventually, this was a rarest of the rare incident that had witnessed large quantity of fish thrown out of the sea.

On earlier occasion fishermen had witnessed collecting dead fish after the high tides left them behind on the beaches. However, this rare incident happened first time on Kadapara beach.

Almost all the fish were of the same sizes. That indicates these were from a large shoal that were probably schooling near the beach and a part of the shoal got carried away by the waves and thrown on the beach. The aggregations of fish that gathers together in same locality in an interactive, social way are referred to as shoal of fish. Whereas, the shoal becomes more tightly organized with the fish synchronising with their swimming. So, they all move at the same speed and in the same direction. This is called schooling of fish.

A fish shoal area can be as large as 500 meter, length, breadth and depth. Generally, these kinds of fish shoals are seen under water in the high sea.  In this case, a shoal moving closer to the beach could be the exceptional one. But one can not deny this kind of incident happening elsewhere too. It might just be the lack of evidence or scientific reference that does not site them in research record. 

However, the reporting of this kind of incidence definitely becomes a study point for the marine biologist to study the exceptional social behaviour of the fish shoal and their schooling pattern that attracts them so close to the beaches. Until then this remains rarest of the rare incidence. Yet, it could be the interest of the marine biologist to take a note and ponder upon.

Unpredictable Indian Voters

In 65 years of Indian democracy, Indians have exercised their adult franchise many a times yet their mood and sense to select a electoral representative for Lok Sabha and Assembly always seems to be far from reality and logical sense. They always seem to be fantasizing in the dream world to elect a macho person who would find the solution of their problem magically. They treat their representative to be a super hero as they have seen in the bollywood movies. Not surprisingly the result of the 2014 Lok sabha election has surpassed all poll predictions and given a clear mandate to the BJP and Mr. Narendra Modi.

There are few things which has been special in this elections are the large turn-out of voters to exercise their voting rights for electing the candidates, secondly the number of young voters formed the large chunk of electoral battle. The third and the major factor which led the NDA achieve this major hall mark of seats were the anger of the people because of the price rise, inflation, corruption, scams and un-responsive attitude of incumbent government towards the common people.

Apart from this, the mega marketing style of Mr. Narendra Modi which supposedly costed  5000 crores,  also created a great euphoria among the large section of the society that culminated into votes. Although, critiques does not endorsed all the poll promises of Mr. Modi or the BJP, it was the marketing style which influenced the individual voters to believe the promises to be really becoming true if Mr. Modi comes to power. When the election campaign of Mr. Modi started it had a lot to say about the development model of Gujarat and rescuing country from misdeeds of congress’s government but at the end of the campaign there were instances of wooing caste and religion too for the votes.

Now that the massive victory of BJP is out in the middle, it is very difficult to understand the mindset of the Indian voters. The poll pundits and analysts speculations have time and gain gone wrong in the recent past except  during Lok Sabha election of 1977, which was speculated to be clearly against the then Indira Gandhi Government. This time too there was a clear wave against congress yet the clear majority of BJP was not clearly written on the wall. As a result, all that has happened is quite surprising.

At a time when BJP is happy about this result and forming government in the center, its time for the opposition to understand as to how they could gear-up against the ruling party on the road ahead. Because in the coming assembly elections in few states the winning factor of BJP would definitely edge them over the opposition.  The real challenge is to be a strong opposition now to the ruling BJP in the center and be a strong contender of the assembly election in the states. Now, how the opposition look at their poll debacle in this concluded Lok Sabha election and introspect various mistakes they committed, will lead them to use their wisdom to look ahead fighting assembly elections.  

Assembly elections are largely fought on the basis of the local issues yet the policies of the center does play a greater role. Whether the coming assembly elections results would also be surprising or will it be on the line of BJP way is to be seen again. But the Indian voters would remain unpredictable for sure.