Kerala lacks statesmanship among its politicians, who thrive on controversy rather than solving problems. As a result, every issue becomes controversial without consensus. The victims are typically the poor and young. Kerala needs true leaders to address basic needs. Both major political groups follow a development strategy that displaces the poor and harms the environment. A more people-friendly and sustainable approach is needed. Kerala has talented people but little spare land, so an alternative knowledge-based development strategy is proposed to generate income without disruption.

1. DR. RAJU M. MATHEW

2.  Kerala is poor in ‘Statesmanship’ and very rich with
regard to ‘Politicians’ who thrive in controversies.
Both the UDF and LDF suffer from such a malady. This
is the tragedy that Kerala is facing.
 For the absence of ‘Statesmanship’ , every
issue, including development, has been deliberately
made controversial, without any consensus or
solutions. The victims are always the Young and the
Poor, including the members or party workers of the
UDF and LDF and not the old or the middle aged
politicians of the UDF or the LDF. Kerala needs
statesmen or true leaders to solve the basic problems
of the people.

3.  The development strategy followed in Kerala, both by
the UDF and LDF, generates a lot of fire, tears and
victims , especially among the poor and the
marginalized who are uprooted from their homes or
denied their livelihood, besides upsetting the Balance
of the Nature. In Kerala all maters related to land or
water or environment are always sensitive.
 It is time to have a human face for developmental
strategy and it must be made people-friendly and
nature -friendly. But to think of such a strategy is quite
impossible for our politicians with old mind-set. But it
is possible.

4.  Without Capital, Technology and Entrepreneurship no
development is possible. But development must
ultimately for the common people and not for those
who bring Capital, Technology and Entrepreneurship
, though they deserve a mutually acceptable
returns, rewards or profit.
 Development is the effective utilization of the
available resources or talents and brining out value
added products or services in a competitive world
without upsetting the common people, including the
voiceless, and the Nature.

5.  Our Politicians and Bureaucrats , either left or
right, have been molded or trained in schools,
colleges and universities subscribed to the ‘ old
school of development ‘that denies the right to
human existence and the right of the Nature to
exist. Such a development strategy brings tears
and human sufferings along with sky scrapers
and crowded high ways and shopping malls. This
is the basic problem suffered by both the
political leadership and followers of both the
UDF and the LDF in Kerala.

6.  Land , Water and Clean Surroundings are very precious in
Kerala. Kerala has more talented people than it can
accommodate. We cannot find much spare land for new
farms, factories, township, roads or shopping malls in
Kerala.
 It is natural that everybody sees any developmental
project a threat to very existence or survival. That is the
basis of controversies for the various developmental
projects announced or launched either by the UDF or LDF
Government. There is no need for any surprise for making
‘Emerging Kerala 2012’ a Controversy as long it involves
land or water or environment.
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7.  Kerala needs an alternative development
strategy – the People and the Nature-friendly
strategy, recognizing the talents and brain
power of the people and environmental
volatility of Kerala. The only abundant resource
of Kerala is the Strategic Brain Power, Talents
and Knowledge Bases of the people of Kerala.
Everybody in Kerala is taught to treat
‘Knowledge as the Supreme Wealth’ thanks to
Thunchath Ezhuthachan, the father of
Malayalam.

8.  Ezhuthachan taught us to treat ‘Knowledge’
as ‘material wealth’, compare knowledge
with ‘butter’ and ‘ghee’ or with ‘wealth’ and
‘income’. He made us to treat ‘Brain Power’
as ‘Wealth’ and ‘Knowledge’ as ‘Income’.
 This is the basis of Mathew’s Theories of
Knowledge’ and ‘Knowmatics’ and
‘Knowmatics-based Knowledge Industries’
, that have emerged or originated in Kerala.

9.  Kerala , the land of people with critical brain
power, talents and knowledge bases, is digitally
interconnected to almost all households.
Without upsetting the People and the Nature,
without acquiring even an inch of land , the
entire Kerala can be made a hub of the World
Knowledge Industries. It is capable of generating
employment for every household in Kerala,
making it as a knowledge processing unit and
earn a minimum 50,000 Indian Rupees in a
month . Details are given in my early
presentations and YouTube videos.

10.  Kerala cannot bear or tolerate or accommodate any
more over dozed controversies and corruptions. The
young and the common people are getting angry with the
‘sound and furry’ making politicians without any
‘Statesmanship’ or ‘Comradeship’.
 The young are looking for men with ‘Statesmanship’ in
the UDF and LDF to ensure sustainable income and
employment for them , the common people, the
marginalized and sidetracked men and women in Kerala.
 After spending over thirty years, I have developed the
System, Technology and Business Model to make Kerala a
Hub of the Knowmatics-based Knowledge Industries of
the World. It is left to the people to accept or reject them
totally.