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Going to Kerala many years ago changed my outlook on life.
I would have said the vast majority of people in that state have a sense that their position in life is unchangeable and so only work as much as is really necessary. When you are sitting under a coconut tree that provides not only nourishment but many basic products, it's hard to think why you should do more. Are people happy? I've never seen so many smiling faces in India compared to the sour looks on people's faces in hard working London.
In the 1950s Kerala was the first part of the world to democratically elect a communist government and since then power tends to see-saw between communist and other parties.
The tribals are considered the original inhabitants of India. So what the Indian government is doing sounds honourable given that they've confiscated the tribal lands.
By comparison the Europeans did a piss-poor job of looking after the stone age tribes they found when they 'invaded' America and later generations of American-born pioneers engaged in ethnic clearing and other dubious practices.
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