Comments on: Day 6: conclusions http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2004/11/29/2280/day-6-conclusions Peter Van Dijck's weblog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Aravind Nair http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2004/11/29/2280/day-6-conclusions#comment-52068 Aravind Nair Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:56:55 +0000 /?p=2280#comment-52068 Happened to stumble upon your blog while looking for something else. Interesting observations. However, being a native of Kerala state, I need to point out a factual error in your assertion: "For example, the fact that this is a mostly muslim state (most of India isn’t Muslim) with a high literacy and many men working in Gulf states had a big influence on how the program was rolled out". Kerala is not a "mostly muslim" state. Muslims constitute only about 20% of the population; 60% are Hindus and 20% Christians (mostly Syrian Christians who trace their conversion to the arrival of St. Thomas the apostle in A.D 52, pre-dating European Christianity). However, it is true that the district of Malappuram is the only muslim-majority district, out of the 14 districts of the state. Happened to stumble upon your blog while looking for something else. Interesting observations. However, being a native of Kerala state, I need to point out a factual error in your assertion: “For example, the fact that this is a mostly muslim state (most of India isn’t Muslim) with a high literacy and many men working in Gulf states had a big influence on how the program was rolled out”. Kerala is not a “mostly muslim” state. Muslims constitute only about 20% of the population; 60% are Hindus and 20% Christians (mostly Syrian Christians who trace their conversion to the arrival of St. Thomas the apostle in A.D 52, pre-dating European Christianity).

However, it is true that the district of Malappuram is the only muslim-majority district, out of the 14 districts of the state.

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