There’s a Place in India Where Religions Coexist Beautifully and Gender Equality Is Unmatched - Kerala, India

• metta
  
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  Apr 10, 2016 3:23 PM GMT

  There’s a Place in India Where Religions Coexist Beautifully and Gender Equality Is Unmatched
  
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chandran-nair/kerala-religion-gender_b_9577234.html

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• Sportsfan1
  
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  Apr 10, 2016 9:41 PM GMT

  Metta;
  Once again you've hit out of the ballpark! What a great article you have chosen to share. I always look forward to reading your posts. They always make me feel better and give me hope for tomorrow.

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• bro4bro
  
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  Apr 10, 2016 11:01 PM GMT

  Wow, let's all pack up and move there!
  
  Oh wait...
  
  From Wikipedia...
  "Outbreaks of water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, and typhoid among the more than 50% of people who rely on 3 million water wells is an issue worsened by the lack of sewers."
  
  Ugh... no thanks

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  Apr 11, 2016 3:08 AM GMT

  This is not inspiring.

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  Apr 11, 2016 4:33 PM GMT

  Kerala was always on my list of places to visit, as it is a most interesting place. They have a great music tradition there and spend most of a year preparing for these great "opera-like" productions. It is geographically isolated from the rest of India by a coastal range of mountains. Interestingly, we've unknowingly long read of this place in our school history books: The other end of the Spice Road which accounted for so much European commerce in the post-Marco Polo world was Kerala, the major spice producing region then and still today. Several decades ago the Smithsonian Magazine ran a very interesting article on Kerala.

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  Apr 11, 2016 6:15 PM GMT

  bro4bro saidWow, let's all pack up and move there!
  
  Oh wait...
  
  From Wikipedia...
  "Outbreaks of water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, and typhoid among the more than 50% of people who rely on 3 million water wells is an issue worsened by the lack of sewers."
  
  Ugh... no thanks

  
  OP hasn't even suggested anything on that line.
  

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  Apr 12, 2016 2:36 PM GMT

  I am very proud of my Kerala ancestry but under no illusion that the people are more accepting of an LGBT culture.

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  Apr 12, 2016 6:28 PM GMT

  Here is the Karelia Suite:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FJIy3UirHA
  
  

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  Apr 13, 2016 7:27 PM GMT

  FRE0 saidHere is the Karelia Suite:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FJIy3UirHA
  
  

  
  
  ...which refers to the Russian province of Karelia, which borders Finland, rather than to the similarly sounding region of India famous for spices!

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  Apr 16, 2016 12:34 AM GMT

  metta saidThere’s a Place in India Where Religions Coexist Beautifully and Gender Equality Is Unmatched
  
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chandran-nair/kerala-religion-gender_b_9577234.html

  
  
  I wonder what they would do if ISIS came into town.
  

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