RELATED STORY INDIA: Misplaced Majesty The history of the thriving Malabar coast's entrepots that so impressed Chinese adventurers has been all but scuttled by the tides of time
Keralites are a highly educated and politically aware people -- almost
universal education gives the state one of the highest literacy rates in the
world
INDIA
The grandeur of Cochin and Calicut has long disappeared
