Kerala Rising: From Exporting People to Exporting Ideas · Page 115 of 353

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS
Kerala, a morning in 2028
Fort Kochi, a Tuesday. The pavements outside
the Dutch cemetery are clean. Not freshly
swept, but clean the way a place is clean when
the people who live there have decided it
should be.
A woman walks past with a basket of fish heads
and drops the organic waste at the segregated
bin near Bastion Bungalow. Her phone
vibrates: points she can use at the bakery two
streets down. She does not check it. She is
forty-eight and she has been doing this for two
years.
Three blocks away a Haritha Karma Sena
worker finishes her round. Her name is on the
cart and on a small plaque at the pickup point.
Her productivity supplement goes into a bank
account in her own name, and has for three
years. The corridor’s website carries her
photograph and a line about her work; she
trains the new recruits in segregation now.
The engine, configured
Nothing in the engine is invented for cleanliness; it
is simply pointed at the segregated-waste action.
This same table, with the action swapped, reappears
in every chapter that follows.
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