No place for communism in 'God's own country'.

People in the south of India often complain that the government in Delhi is biased towards the northern states. They have a case. They have low fertility rates, have higher education levels, better healthcare and pay higher taxes, but get less from the center than Hindi speaking states which have higher fertility rates, higher unemployment and lower education levels. To a certain extent the central government is helpless, in that it must allocate more resources for development of poorer areas. On the other hand, handouts could be encouraging excess birth rates and increased dependency in these states, as people become irresponsible about their personal conduct. However, all southern states are not so rosy. Kerala has branded itself the 'God's own country' but, "Go a little deeper and there is a miasma of extremism, sectarian killing, unemployment and general apathy," writes Banuchandar Nagarajan. "Last month, it was reported that 22 people that were missing had volunteered to join the Islamic State," and,"Left Democratic Front (LDF) activists have killed more than 250 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers so far in an attempt to make it 'bleed by a thousand cuts'. Kannur, the home district of the current chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan and the late Communist giant AK Gopalan, is the epicentre of violence. The sheer goriness of the violence is sickening---a teacher killed in front of a classroom of children and a son in front of his parents." Communism has destroyed the economy.  Last year an American artist, Waswo X Waswo was asked to pay Rs 10,000 to move 6 boxes of his artwork a distance of 10 feet. He destroyed some of his work rather than pay, what he considered, as extortion money. If you are moving home you have to pay a loaders' union even if you do all the work yourself. People are actually employed by unions to stand at street corners to see who is moving, a practice known as 'nokkukooli', which translates to 'wages for looking'. The economy receives about one-third of its GDP from remittances of 2.5 million expats, working mainly in the Middle East, but as the price of oil has dropped so thousands of these workers, mainly laborers, are returning back to the state and will be looking for jobs. The debt-to-state GDP is 30%, as compared to an average of 20% for all other states and Foreign Direct Investment was a paltry $1.2 billion from 2000 to 2015, compared to $18 billion for Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, over the same period. Thankfully, as the nation's economy grows so people are rejecting communism. If Kerala can get rid of communists, like China did, then it will improve. After all, it has God on its side.