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Took this picture from Kochu Veli Express as it halted in one of the stops before Kollam en-route to it’s last stop, Kochu Veli. Such sights are common in Kerala, a state which boasts of high literacy and newspaper readership.
This makes me think – is the so called literacy good for Kerala? Or is it inhibiting change or resisting people to act on what skills they learn or know.
On a general scale, Kerala has large number of newspaper readers and for most people, any-day is incomplete without starting the day with news and coffee. The over consumption of news has it’s side effects which I feel is crippling the state.
One assumption I think is that newspapers carry lot of negative news and it can make critical of everything they come across. And, this is the plague that I find with most people of my state. They are skewed to be negative, sarcastic towards anything that’s new. I belong to this and many of my contemporaries.
Any project, proposal or a venture from anyone is resisted – from Express highway project to waste recycling plant and many more.
I may be wrong, I may be right?
What do you think?
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