Comments on Scaling New Heights: Alcoholism and Kerala - Made for Each Other?

Interesting and enlightening I should say. Thank ...

2010-06-21T23:03:19.311+01:00

Interesting and enlightening I should say. Thank you.

Come and see, how the stray dogs are tortured merc...

2009-06-26T14:23:40.946+01:00

Come and see, how the stray dogs are tortured mercilessly and killed, with people cheering happily, in this lunatic asylum. The moral progress of a nation can be measured by the way, its people treat the animals, said Gandhi. How can demons have moral values at all?

Kerala is a big lunatic asylum as declared by Vivekananda, with barefooted mallus walking half naked in lungis, spitting

Abhi/Static Variable/Praveen I had so many similar...

2009-06-26T04:38:41.990+01:00

Abhi/Static Variable/Praveen
I had so many similar exp. yes it is correct.. In Kerala it is easy to convince people that you don't drink tea than convince them that you don't drink.

Jennifer,
So many families in Kerala suffer due to the overindulgence of people in alcohol.

Thank you for bringing this problem to light. Abo...

2009-06-26T02:07:28.308+01:00

Thank you for bringing this problem to light.

Above the drinking of alcohol, we should see the reasons people get addicted. If it is not alcohol, it'd be some other drug of choice (anything can be a drug if not in moderation, hence the world wide obesity epidemic).

Reading your post makes me think that this problem reaches past social drinking, this is why I say this. In

I also had to face that question on why am not a d...

2009-06-25T17:08:38.694+01:00

I also had to face that question on why am not a drinker even after doing my engineering...
It has come to such a point that people take drinking liquor on par with drinking tea..

i have been in the software field for 4 years now ...

2009-06-25T11:46:13.772+01:00

i have been in the software field for 4 years now and have never had drinks, even when i was onsite. but in every party, men raise eyebrows when i decline drinks.they ask...youve been onsite...youre a malayalee..your and engineer.....

this mindset has to change for sure

Even i had got similar comments when i was working...

2009-06-25T10:11:51.820+01:00

Even i had got similar comments when i was working in Orissa. They all even confused wine drinking @ Christian weddings with the so called Drinking Culture in Kerala. Each of them was surprised when i said i don't drink, they were like "Oh you mean you don't drink in daytime".

This needs to change! Good post!