mr. srinivasan again prove his intellectual insolvency by finding the source of southeren progress are existence of vijayanagar empires and so on. as a keralite the basic reason for keralas progress is made by 1. the land reform made by marxist government 2. eductional development leaded by christian minority 3. the teachings of shree narayan gurudev and 4. progressive thinking people of high class society. really these are the basic reason for the development of keral. and the reason that mr. srinivasan indicates. if that is so why america become a most developed state? it has just very short period of history!!!!