--- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A non Vedic approach.. democratic, anti caste, grass-roots etc > but it works... > > http://www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=871 > Summer 2004 Issue: What Is The Good Life? > > Little Cash, Lots of Riches > by David Reynolds > > Having lived in Central America in a home with a dirt floor and > candle lighting, I arrived in Kerala, India, prepared to see the > wooden shacks that provide homes to so many people around the > developing world. After two weeks traveling Kerala's length I still > had not found any. Even when I visited several homes of what > westerners call the "untouchable" caste, I walked on tiled floors > surrounded by solid concrete walls in rooms lit with electric lights. > In every town and city was the opportunity to browse the thousands of > bustling family shops that blanket Kerala� sign that most of the > population can afford to buy basic goods. > > India's state of Kerala, with its 30 million people and an average > per capita income of $324 a year, ought to have vast shantytowns. If > Kerala were an independent country, it would rank among the world's > 50 poorest nations. Yet, Kerala has literacy, life expectancy, and > infant mortality rates that far exceed those in the rest of India and > the world's other poor countries. Indeed, on all these measures > Kerala rivals the vastly richer United States.
Reminds me of Cuba, another communist success, had it not been for the utterly evil american embargo. Interstingly Maharishi said in Boppard 1982, that "of all the political systems, communism by far is the most intelligent" To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
