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21 Jun, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Tamil Nadu, population 72 million, a 300 billion USD State economy, percapita GDP of 3600 USD, 83% literacy rate, a sex ratio of 996 (that's very good), with Tamil, one of the oldest classical languages that has survived. Now with a new administration under @mkstalin
Given a fair wind, and if @swamy39 holds his tongue, Tamil nadu will go far in the next 5 years. The new CM is an atheist, and he headed a Secular Progressive Alliance, I repeat SECULAR...The secular ideal is alive and kicking in a corner of #HinduRashtra, thanks to no God!
#UttarPradesh in the North and #Tamilnadu in the deep south make an interesting contrasting case study. Both States are replete with Temples; #UP's Government is a theocracy in all but name. TN is more socially advanced and egalitarian.

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