Home Rule..

An avid fan that i am of Shashi Tharoor, spared myself some time to read a few of his recent articles. Each one struck a chord and made me unconsciously nod my head to what he had to say, but a particular one, with a catchy title had me feeling proud. An article published in 2005, titled "Kalyanikutty's Kerala". He goes on to stress how the women in kerala were always educated and forward in their thinking even in the 19th century. Cant deny that the feminist in me wasnt evoked, but more than that, the article makes you feel good, proud of being born in a state where a woman ruler decreed that "the State should defray the entire cost of the education of its people in order that there might be no backwardness in the spread of enlightenment among them, that by diffusion of education they might become better subjects and public servants" and all the governments followed till date.