Militant trade unionism is the cancer that is killing Kerala’s progress and economy (“How to be a model state again”, Aug. 15). Unions will not allow an entrepreneur to invest in the State peacefully. There is an instance of union members intimidating the owner of an IT start-up company for refusing to pay the bizarre “ Nokku cooli ”, a Malayalam word for watching someone doing the work and demanding wages for the same. Even Malayalis are reluctant to invest in their own State.
Murli Nair,
Chennai