In Kerala not many wars or battles have been fought with rapacious invaders as has been the case in the north where pillaging hordes would descend from the Khyber pass to take away the proverbial riches of the emperors and kings in the plains of the Indian subcontinent. Kerala is also the place where martial art was born and nurtured and then it travelled out to China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere to become kung fu, ju jitsu, Karate and taekwando. Kerala boasts of the oldest dance form Theyyam and its avant garde derivative, the Kathakali of the hugely tactile eyes and brow punctuated with swirling arm movements all performed under large colorful painted masks. A surprising religious celebration in March where every year the Hindu Gods are abused in the filthiest and foulest of languages for a day. Anachronistically, the state is now ruled by a Communist Party for the last 10 years. Fairs and festivals that celebrate life and living in this state of its deep religious and cultural origin. Starting with the famed boat races in the backwaters, to the lesser know bull races. The state has a calendar of activities that can at best be termed as chaotically "busy" 12 months a year.
You have cool pleasant hills and valleys running north to south with forests, tea plantations and wildlife sanctuaries. It is hot but no one is a water baby here. Long beaches on its west coast, and slightly inland its fabled waterways that run for hundreds of miles to create communities totally surrounded by water.
Kerala is a place of many riches and dumbfounding contradictions.
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