medha patkar's comment about kerala is definitely valuable in the context in which she said.

kerala, is indeed the soul of anybody who had been born there or works there or visits there.

an enchanting place with amazing culture, it mesmerizes anybody easily.

with its 100% literacy rates, strong political knowledge, women's empowerment, health care systems that is far better off - kerala offers many strong points.

kerala too has issues. lack of sustainable industries, a immigrating workforce that has sucked kerala's youth to work outside, happening and looming environmental disasters - all are huge issues too.

but for the modern crazy day work-work-work life, kerala indeed is the soothing medicine.