On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was speaking to a professor at one of the best universities in > Kerala, who does a lot of policy work. He said that he prefers to do > policy work in Delhi rather than in Kerala because he found that > everything that he did was opposed, and that it was an ingrained part > of Kerala culture to do so. I have never lived in Kerala, so perhaps, > those who have lived there/are living there can tell me more? I worked for a little over nine months in Kerala. Number of lost working days due to hartal, general strike or some such amounted to ninteen days in this period. Hartals are a celebration of sorts back home: you'd find bigger queues at beverages corporation's outlets on any hartal eve. The left, right, centre, and the unlabelled can all equally take credit for this feat. I've been in Bangalore for well over six years now. Lost working days due to similar reasons are zero here. Makes a statement, no?
