The Kearala model seems to me the model for "average" survival. Malayalees will not feel the poverty of Biharis, and at the same time they cannot go up further to lead India. Most of them are graduates, but in the field of higher education, their institutions are not adequate!. They have plans to survive difficult situations, but have no plans to go high up to become big industrialists etc.
why Dr. Amarthya Sen always writes about Kerla and West Bengal comparing them with Bihar, and not much about Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Gujarat and other states?. If many Malayalees work in other states, that means those states provide them with some opportunity, isn't it?. Dr. Sen has severe socialist outlook which blinds his scientific temper. He can fool around with theories for some time, but the average Malayalee who is toiling it out in other states knows the truth!!