South India Paradox – KERALA – the land of Marx and Maharajahs
By Adam Hochschild (From the San Francisco Examiner dated: July 1999) During the five months that I lived last year in Trivandrum, the capital of the south Indian state of Kerala, I went for a run every morning. My neighbors were thoroughly amused at the spectacle of someone odd enough to voluntarily work up a sweat in their sauna-like climate. Laborers gathered at the roadside stall for a cup of milky tea laughed and called out "Where coming from?" Children heading down the narrow lanes to school giggled and raced…read more