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Land grab Conspiracy in Kerala
Kerala is a place where you cannot get agriculture labourers because everyone is literate and thinks manual labour is unbecoming. The minimum wages that you have to pay to any manual labourer is Rs. 250/- a day - for 6 hours of what they deem to be work. The carpenter gets Rs. 300/- to Rs. 500/- a day. A live-in maid comes at not less than Rs. 4500/- plus food and clothes, a month. If you use her for other things, you pay extra. All labourers come to work in motorcycles or scooters.Kerala is Gul...
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Orissa Backlash in Faraway Kerala
Kerala has the largest number of Christians accounting for 20 per cent of its population, constituting 26 per cent of the total population of Christians in the country. Nowhere else but in Kerala might the backlash of the Orissa violence be strong enough to create never-before communal schism. That Kerala priests and nuns proselytizing in Orissa are directly involved and affected is unfortunately not the reason, though.The Catholic Church in Kerala has been finding itself very unpopular ever sin...
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