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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How a boat journey in the mid-1960s started Kerala’s Gulf Boom -Gita Aravamudan

How a boat journey in the mid-1960s started Kerala’s Gulf Boom -Gita Aravamudan

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published Published on Aug 16, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 19, 2020

-TheNewsMinute.com

Kerala has become a state fueled by a remittance economy, but the origins of this, dates back to several decades.

In the summer of 1980, I visited Kerala’s Varkala in Thiruvanathapuram for the first time. It was the peak of the first Gulf boom. The media was full of stories on the ones who had made it big. But I was doing an article on the petrodollar paupers — the ignored ones — the migrants who had returned home in distress. I had met quite a few of them already and then I was on my way to meet Shahjahan, a 31-year-old who had come back after being bailed out of a prison in the United Arab Emirates by his elder brother. His crime? The most common one: He had gone to Dubai without a visa.

Varkala was once a small overgrown fishing village 30 kilometres north of Thiruvananthapuram, the city where I once lived. It had an interesting history of migration. The adventurous young men from here and the surrounding villages of Chirayankil had for long travelled to Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Those “Singapore Yatrakar” (travellers) had toiled in the docks, on plantations and on construction sites, leaving their wives behind to keep the home fires burning.

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TheNewsMinute.com, 16 August, 2020, https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-boat-journey-mid-1960s-started-kerala-s-gulf-boom-130847


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