The Girls Who Saved Kerala!
In south-western corner of India is the state of Kerala. It's evergreen, densely populated. It was one of the poorest states (though with the highest literacy rate) at Independence. The men who got some education and managed to get jobs in the Gulf States brought in money they had earned abroad. But the real saviors of the state were the girls. After school they went for nursing as they wouldn't have to spend more on education. After qualifying as nurses they applied for jobs abroad. There was great demand for qualified nurses around the world. And Kerala's nurses went to work all over the world, including Europe and America. They came home to marry, but settled down abroad. Wherever they went they had to learn the local local language. And they spoke it with a distinct Malayali (Malayalam is their native language) accent!
The credit for saving India's poorest state from poverty must mainly go to the amazing nurses from Kerala
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Dreams of One Country, Ms Jagjit Daniel's MovieScopic India Novel. Now listed in GoodReads, the book my wife Jagjit and I worked on together has some memorable scenes of Bombay and India in British times and World War II. It's now available for Print Copy delivered to you by Amazon - apart from e-download. Dreams is a story set in the midst of historic national upheavals like the Emergency, of a Love-lit youth campaign, based on the country's true talent potential, that launches India's ascent...to join the world's progressive nations.
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