Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has been turned on its head. People get the money first, and then build the infrastructure to govern themselves. Bu

Decentralisation in Kerala is the work of a persistent civil society

Kerala s income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs

Bureaucrats pose a threat to the process

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say