KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS technology. It asks only that they hold a few wellestablished things in mind at once and follow where they lead. Where they lead happens to be large; the starting points are not. A final word on tone. This book argues its case with conviction, because a hope offered tentatively invites a tentative response. But conviction is not the same as overclaiming, and the book tries throughout to mark the difference, sure where it is sure, honest where it is guessing. The reader is asked to weigh the vision, not to trust the author, which is why so much of the book is given over to showing its work. THE ONE LINE, IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE For fifty years Kerala exported its people. The next fifty can be about exporting its ideas. 39