Wednesday, July 11, 2007
'Go West, Young Man'
India's West Coast seems destined to follow the same success as the West Coast success stories in other countries. It's a curious quirk of nature that makes hurricanes travel from east-to-west, ravaging coastal communities in East Asia, but sparing the shores of Europe. California may have its rare earthquake problems, but is spared the annual hurricane scares, and of course its real estate prices easily lead those of the rest of the country. It seems inevitable to me that real estate prices along India's southwestern coastline will soar, as it becomes the next booming Promised Land.
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as license plate holders have said in oregon etc. to migrating 'californicators', those in kerala have the following to say to potential migrants:
"welcome to kerala. now please go home."
this is because of several reasons. one is we are busy destroying the state, through cutting down the rainforests, filling in the paddy fields, mining sand from the rivers and the beaches, massacring frogs to export frogs-legs to france, polluting as much as possible, throwing plastic waste into every nook and cranny of the state, and other fun things.
we are also seeing the results. no frogs, more mosquitos, epidemics like chikunguniya. no sand, sea erosion is eating away the coast. no paddy fields, all the food comes from tamil nadu, whose 'dravidian' maniacs embargo on the slightest pretext. no forests, rainfall is diminishing and the rivers are running dry. we are rapidly turning god's own country into dog's own country.
and we can do it just by ourselves, thank you very much.
now go home. seriously. there is no land in kerala (it has all been grabbed by you-know-who), no jobs, and only extremely high-priced real estate held together with gulf money, including that which is shipped by arabs for other purposes. reality check: per square foot rates in trivandrum for an apt: rs. 2500. absolutely sky-high. kochi is even higher. and there is the famous kerala unfriendliness. and the bloody communists. it's true nobody defecates on the side of the road, but the verbal diarrhea and the slogans and the red flags are at least as disgusting.
Indian media is damn funny (a.k.a stupid)..
After ignoring southern India and calling people names for most part of independent India's history, suddenly they are going head over heels singing paens..
Outlook is rather late in jumping into this bandwagon. Coming from the south, i feel happy that my fellow countrymen are atlast begining to understand that all of South is not "Madras" and all of them dont speak "Madrasi"..:-) (atleast i hope they are making an effort to realise that:-) )
But what rankles me is there is a complete disregard/ignorance to what makes Southern India tick. If you look at the "analysis" of Mr. Guha and ilk, it is so superficial and just a pile of english trash.. No insghts or analysis.. and there is the obligatory stupid allusion to bad things happening because of BJP gaining power in Karnataka.
I am waiting to see how many years pass before we get to know about our fellow country men in forgotten North East and shed our sterotypes about them..
Indians and Indian media need a crash course in the true Indian history/reality..
There are millions of SIs in Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta. Ar they there because of the "great culture" in those cities? People go where there is opportunity. There are millions of Indians in Saudi - are they there because they like the high "culture"?
Surprising how the human marxcreata at toutlook conveniently forget their "economics as the root" theories as and when they feel like it.
And so many journalists wrote that article- where do they produce such namunas?
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