KERALA- A Consumption Society in Distress

eye, full of gossip. But there was not an iota of malice in such gossip-mongering. A fantastic host and an abiding friend, he was perhaps the last of the Mohicans spreading the message that economics without ideology was just flummery. The KERALA western seaboard offered once upon a time a venerable roster of names, names led by the K T Shahs and K T Merchants, who added passion to the study of economics. Now that Dantwala too is gone, it is the end of not just a chapter, but of an epoch.