Someone needs to save Keralites from American weapons, goat, teak, and mangium scams. It was probably in the eighties that goats and Malabar nut (adalodakam) were presented as top-tier income-generating investment schemes. The current fake scam in the name of an American weapons manufacturing company proves that such deceptions have not yet ended.
Keralites have money in hand. It might be from a government pension, savings from ginger, coffee, and pepper farming, extreme frugality, or remittances from children abroad. Most recently, INR 2.16trn (~USD 25.9bn) reached Kerala from abroad in a single year. The fundamental issue in a state where money changes hands in so many ways is the lack of trustworthy projects to invest in. That is where people fall again for the attractive presentation of the ‘American company’. Why cannot this money be used for the right purposes?
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