Word: kerala
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...OBEROI VRINDA: Cruising the backwaters of Kerala has become extremely competitive. Every resort with a website, it seems, has jury-rigged an "antique" fishing boat, or kettuvellam, to navigate the state's palm-fringed canals. The Oberoi Vrinda, however, does it better than most. With just eight cabins and wonderful cuisine (you won't get enough of the spicy prawn curry), this is a marvelous way to catch glimpses of Indian life-from women washing clothes on the banks to fishermen selling their catch from boats. Some shore-based sight-seeing is included, while cultural programs and traditional dances enliven...
...drink. It is not the first time the Centre for Science and Environment has made such allegations. If it were serious about contamination, it would have targeted the boards supplying drinking water to billions of people rather than raising its voice against the two soda companies. The fact that Kerala's government promptly banned both colas suggests that what's at stake is more about politics than pesticides. Jagmohan Manchanda New Delhi...
...There may eventually be a few individuals at the margins who still choose to use Microsoft, but the majority should be free of this hardship." M.A. BABY, education minister of the Indian state of Kerala, which plans to replace Microsoft programs with open-source software in 12,500 state high schools...
...release of a new study finding high levels of pesticide in locally bottled sodas had India in an uproar last week, and the outrage fell squarely on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, which boast about 80% of the country's market for soft drinks. The southern state of Kerala has issued an order banning Coke and Pepsi products, while five other states barred soft drinks from public hospitals, government offices and the areas around schools. Nationalist groups burned soda bottles and fed the drinks to donkeys in protest...
...born to a very poor Brahman family in Kerala, India. I agree with the critics who say that the government is reserving university seats and government jobs for Other Backward Classes as a way of hanging on to the big voting bloc of the lower castes. Modern India should be built on merit, not caste. There are lots of poor families struggling to make a living. I hope that some forward-looking politicians will be able to change India for the better. Mani Madathil Kaarst, Germany...