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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 03:04 PM Mar 2020

A tiny state of 34 million...

A tiny state of 34 million. Never voted for a right-wing BJP government.

Literacy rate >90%. Alternated between the Communist Party of India and another center-left bloc.



Kerala, a state of 34m in southern India, is now home-delivering midday meals to pupils whose schools have been shut due to COVID-19. Somehow between tracing contacts, quarantining people, and slowing the spread of the virus, their Communist-led government thought of this, too.

https://t.co/cvuiezgZzW


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