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First of all, you will find that it's quite easy to adapt to life in Aizawl. Language may be a problem since you will not find many Hindi-speaking people; however, this has also changed a lot and people have become more aware of the importance of the official language. Moreover, quite a large number of people speaks English. So, you probably won't feel like an alien in a different realm.“Advice to someone moving to Aizawl, Mizoram”…. Well, let's see what I can come up with. My advice doesn't differ much from that for anywhere else, and generally applicable in other places too:Market timing: Veg and grocery shops and markets usually open from early morning, and most other shops by around 9am. Almost everything is closed by nightfall. Don't plan your shopping for later in the evenings.Food: You have no reason to fear facing starvation because you are a vegetarian :-) You will get lots of good vegetarian foods, and even though you will find plenty of meat everywhere, no one will force you to eat or buy them.Commuting: Taxis can be quite costly for daily commute. Try and make use of the bus services. The system is as simple as can be: two-way on the main ridge of the city. A two-wheeler is very useful; the bus service covers almost only the main road, taxis can be costly, and walking up and down long flights of steps everywhere is not always suitable. Buy a motorcycle, a cost-effective solution to all these.Night life: There's not much of a night life here apart from the occasional football matches and concerts. If you're into either of these, you can get to occasionally enjoy the top quality in Indian football or music.Friendliness and openness of society: The Mizos are, as many writers on Quora have pointed out, a friendly and happy bunch. The male-female population mixes more freely than in other parts of India. Observe carefully and try to differentiate whether someone is just being helpful and friendly to you. I have seen some of my friends from other states make the mistakes of wrongly interpreting these and thinking that some girls are really into them. You may really get genuine interest also ;-) , the key is correct identification.Equality: Mizoram is a place where you will see and experience equality in practice. This may be a noticeable phenomenon in comparison to other parts of India (personal opinion). So, don't be surprised or take offence if your peon takes the seat next to yours at an event or at a dinner.Religious services: If you're a Christian, you can join your local church or the English services organized on Sundays. Most of the churches also have parallel Hindi services of all their programs. For Hindus and Muslims, there are places (mosque and mandir) in the city, and festivals and normal religious services are organized there. No one will bother you for your religious beliefs or inclination.Social involvement: Don't keep to yourself or try to isolate your family. This is a mistake I've seen many individuals and families committed. Contributing to the society is always a good thing where ever you are. The same thing applies here. The Mizos will genuinely appreciate you and make you feel that you are a part of them.OK, there you have it. Not what you expected? It's because Mizoram is not a foreign country and there really is not much of a difference from the other parts of the country. Remember that, and get that right in your head, and you should do juust fine.

Before talking about Kerala let me tell you about some countries with most favorable geographical location.Myanmar is rich in timber, hydropower, natural gas, diamonds, and even uranium. Geographically, it can be called wealthy. However it stands 147th in HDI ranking of 189 countries.Venezuela had the world's largest oil deposit and yet the country is had suffered inflation, hyperinflation. I would suggest it as the worst economy of the century. ( Remember, this place is also geographically wealthy). HDI ranking is 78. Geographically, it has a strategic location and huge amount of resourcesVenezula on MapAngola another African country has( second most geographically rich country in Africa)thick forests in the north serve as a logical border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while the Kalahari Desert offers a natural frontier with Namibia and Botswana to the south. To the east, a gradually rising plateau abuts Zambia, and the South Atlantic Ocean is off to the west. The , Luanda, which is perched on the oil-rich northwestern coast, is ranked the second-most expensive city in the world.But this country is ranked 149th in HDI ranking. It is one of the country with most income inequality.In fact, 94 percent of rural households are categorized as poor. There is a very low electrification rate in rural areas of Angola, with only 6% of rural households having access to electricity. A considerable amount of the population (38 percent) does not have access to safe water sources. Consequently, the mortality rate for children under five is around 17 percent. In addition, many children do not have access to education , making future employment difficult. In fact, 34.6 percent of people have unequal access to education. As a result, 28.9 percent of the population have an unequal income.Somewhere in AngolaWhat I want to say is that these countries all are geographically rich but what make it poor is its worst governance and corruption in bureaucracy.Scholars such as Jeffrey D. Sachs argue that geography has a key role in the development of a nation's economic growth but having it alone be like a popular Malayalam sayingPatteede kayil muzhuvan thenga kodutha pole(Translation: It's like giving a dog a complete coconut)They also need to utilize the geographical resource, plan for a sustainable development by investing in future and present …in short good governance. A good governance plus geography equal to development.Coming back to the question, It's not the geographical location that has a huge share in growth of HDI in the state. It is socio-cultural uprising ( read this for a better view)Jewel Jose's answer to Why is left ideology dominant in Kerala?Upliftment of new class called middle class in the state due to the gulf effect ( brain drain ) which in turn resulted in demand in quality in life standards etc does. Kerala is a state of high literacy (every one knowns that) but Kerala was the first in Asia to undertook the responsibility of education as the responsibility of stateIn Travancore by Rani Gouri Parvati Bai in 1817 , Rani Gauri Parvati Bai of Travancore kingdom made primary education compulsory in Travancore. In 1879, the state grant in aid and rules were made applicable to all private schools, to provide education in vernacular language to a certain standardIn 1874 , Diwan of the Kingdom made a vernacular education department in the state . It was the Magna Carta of Education in Travancore. In 1904 , the Travancore made education completely free in state. Restrictions in lower castes in government schools were removed in 1911-1912. In 1917 rural schools were also started for the benefit of the pupils who were unable to going for education due to poverty or other cause. In view of the people’s demand and the collegiate level institutions in the state, on I st November 1937, the University of Travancore was established and incorporated under the Travancore University Act 1937-38. With the opening of the Travancore University the growth of higher education was accelerated in the state. Restrictions in lower castes in government schools were removed in 1911-1912. In 1917 rural schools were also started for the benefit of the pupils who were unable to going for education due to poverty or other cause. In view of the people’s demand and the collegiate level institutions in the state, on I st November 1937, the University of Travancore was established and incorporated under the Travancore University Act 1937-38. With the opening of the Travancore University the growth of higher education was accelerated in the state.Travancore university , now known as university of keralaEducation in Cochin As was done in Travancore, in Cochin also missionary efforts at starting English Education began during the second decade of the nineteenth century. The first attempt to introduce the study of the English language was made by a CMS missionary Rev. J Dawson, who opened an English school at Mattancheri in 1818, in aid of which he received a grant from the Government. The school did not take in root and it had to be closed down within three years. The educational history of Cochin was, till late in the 1880’s one of opening more and more English schools and raising some of the existing ones to the level of colleges. Sealy was appointed the first Director of Public Instructions in Cochin ‘(K.V.Eapen :1986). The first set of rules for grand in aid to private schools was framed in 1889, subsequent to which a large number of private aided schools sprang up. The education of the common man received attention of the Cochin Government only as late as 1890. The active efforts of the state as well as of private agencies helped the spread of western education in Cochin. The closing decades of the 19th century laid strong foundation for the development of a wide based educational structure during the subsequent decades. During the first decade of itself many measures were taken to improve the educational standards of the states. The important measure taken up was the framing of an educational code by the government in 1911 (C.M Ramachandran:1987). Consequent on the grand in aid given by the government a large number of schools sprang up under private management. The rules for giving aid were revised in 1921 which encouraged the private agencies to open school. Figure 2 Growth in Number of Schools in Cochin Source: Cochin Administrative Report, Relevant years. In 1947 Cochin had three government colleges and two private colleges. The state of Cochin was integrated with the state Travancore and a new state of Travancore Cochin was formed on 1st July, 1949. This merger of the two princely state paved way for the formation of democratic government in the state. Till 1949 the colleges of Cochin were affiliated to the Madras University but with the formation of new state the colleges came under the control of government. However the private colleges continued their affiliation under the Madras University. When the state of Kerala was formed in 1956, these colleges were brought under the department of collegiate education, with their affiliation to the newly formed Kerala University (C.M Ramachandran: 1987). Education in Malabar Malabar became part of the British administration at the end of the 18th century. But the western educational activities started their only very late. The indigenous system continued to exist among the different castes of Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The growth of western education was slower in Malabar than in the other two regions (A.R.Kamat:1989). Besides, even the development of education which began after 1835 was strictly based on the infiltration which gave more emphasis to higher levels of school education and collegiate education than primary education. The credit for having laid the foundations of western education in Malabar area goes to the ‘Basal German Evangelical Mission’. Basel Mission in Malabar, founded by Herman Gundert, actively engaged in educational activities in the middle of the 19th century (E. T. Mathew :1991). Among the colleges started in this region, the earliest ones were Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College (Calicut), Victoria College (Palakkad) and Brennen College (Thalassery). In Malabar, the government’s attention to the cause of promotion of Malayalam education began only in 1921.This period had coincided with the Moplah rebellion and with the period of transfer of partial control of central education department to Indians under the provisions of the Government of India Act of 1919. In Malabar, serious attention was given to the development of primary education supported by grants from the Madras government. The educational disparities that existed between Malabar and the other two regions of Kerala have narrowed down quite rapidly during the past quarter of a century as a result of the deliberate policy of special educational encouragement given to the former region.When India became independent in 1947, Malabar continued to be a district of Madras state. The colleges in Malabar were affiliated to the Madras University. It was added to Travancore-Cochin, as a result of the formation of the linguistic state if India, to form part of the united Kerala state (C.M Ramachandran:1987). However with the enactment of the Kerala University Act in 1957, all colleges in Kerala were brought under the control of the only University in the state then. Thus the Kerala University Act of 1957 transformed the character of the erstwhile Travancore University very creditablyAs a result ater Independence, when Kerala was formed, despite of the economic stagnation that the state faced , Kerala had a high literacy rate when compared to the national percentage, what your aforementioned exaggerated governance model did was to utilize it , they invested to create a sustainable development in education sector. Today, Kerala has the largest literacy rate. It is the same exaggerated governance model which made the effect in education that you see today.Pre Independent Kerala laid down the foundation of education in the state whereas Kerala of Independent lndia finished the building of Education. Education gifted high literacy rate, high school enrollment rate, good employment rate ,destroyed the gender inequality and casteism to an extentComing to the health sectorKerala has a long history of organized health care. Before the advent of European medicine, families of practitioners of indigenous systems like Ayurveda handed their traditions from generation to generation. People were accustomed to approaching caregivers when they were sick, rather than turning to self-treatment. When the colonial powers established their presence in the region, they brought their medical system with them. In the 19th century, the princely rulers of the erstwhile states of Travancore and Cochin (which later were integrated into the state of Kerala along with the Malabar district of the Madras presidency in British India) took the initiative in making the western system of care available to their subjects. A royal proclamation of 1879 made vaccination compulsory for public servants, prisoners and students. All heads of public departments were instructed to see that those under their care and control were vaccinated. Administrative reports indicate that public health authorities were also concerned about the spread of cholera during fairs and festivals, and initiated measures of containment. In 1928, under the auspices of the Travancore government and with the help of the Rockefeller foundation, parasite surveys were conducted in Travancore which led to measures to control hookworm and filariasis. A health unit incorporating many of the concepts of primary health care was also started in a rural area. Development of health services was not confined to the provision of preventive care – the general hospitals in Trivandrum and Cochin are about 150 years old. Initiatives were also taken to get members of the respective states who were trained in western medicine into key posts in the government service. The appointment of Dr Mary Punnen Lukose as the surgeon-general of Travancore in the early years of the 20th century is a case in point.Family photo of Mary Poonen LukoseA doctor trained in England, she was the first woman to be appointed surgeon-general in an Indian state, at a time when women doctors were still a rarity in Europe and America. Development of health services was complemented by other parallel events: initiatives to provide safe drinking water (in the capital city of Trivandrum initially) and the provision of state supported primary education, including education for women. Though schooling had not reached today’s levels of coverage, the first steps were taken. Another important factor was the establishment of mission hospitals in remote areas under the auspices of Christian churches. Young girls from the Christian community in Kerala were keen to take up nursing as a career. At the time of formation of the present Kerala state on 1 November 1956, the foundation for a medical care system accessible to all citizens was already laid. One indicator of the government’s commitment to health services provision is the proportion of government expenditure set apart for health. From the time of the state’s formation, the government’s budget allocation for health was considerable. Social sectors, mainly comprising education and health, accounted for a large share of the government development expenditure. The period from state formation to the early 1980s was characterized by great growth and expansion of the government health services. Figures show the annual compound growth rate of government health care expenditure for the period at 13.04% (at current prices, without deflation), outstripping both the annual compound growth rate of total government expenditure at 12.45% and the annual compound growth rate of the state domestic product at 9.81%.2From 1961 to 1986, the state greatly expanded its government health facilities. The number of beds and institutions increased sharply. The total number of beds in government hospitals in the western medical sector increased from around 13 000 in 1960–61 to 20 000 in 1970–71, and 29 000 in 1980–81. By 1986, the total was 36 000. Estimates in 1996 put the number at 38 000. Thus the major growth phase of facilities in the government sector was before 1986, after which it slowed considerably. Fiscal crisis in the government and its effect on health services The period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s has been termed a period of ‘fiscal crisis’ for the state government. There was unprecedented growth in revenue deficits – the excess of government expenditure over revenue – which has been well documented in recent studies. Though budgetary deficit has become a common feature for all states in India, the magnitude of the deficit in Kerala has been steadily growing and is substantively higher than the All-States average in India as a whole. During this time, expenditure on health shows that after an initial slowing down of the growth of average annual total expenditure in real terms from 1975–79 to 1980–84 ,( growth recovered from 1985–89 through 1990–94. Plan expenditure, which is supported by grants from central government, did not contribute to the initial setback; in fact, plan expenditure grew from 1975–79 to 1980–84. Plan expenditure consists mainly of expenditure on central government schemes such as national disease control programs. As such, the component of capital expenditure is larger in plan expenditure. Non-plan expenditure is the major chunk of government expenditure on health and is contributed by the state government. Revenue expenditure, which includes a large component of salaries, constitutes the larger share of non-plan expenditure. By 1990–94 the central government severely curtailed spending on health as a natural consequence of its own policies; this is reflected in the reduced plan expenditure in Kerala.During1985–86 to 1995–96 the proportion of government expenditure on health was maintained in spite of a large fiscal deficit . However, adjustments were made in reaction to the fiscal situation. Analysis shows that capital spending (buildings and infrastructure) stagnated by the mid-1980s before decline , whereas revenue spending (salaries and consumables)continued to grow into the 1990s. This is due to the salary component in revenue expenditure, which showed no sign of diminishing during most of this period. In view of the state’s socio-political environment, characterized by a high awareness of their political rights by the organized labor force, including government employees, this is not surprising. Successive governments, being committed to growing expenditure on salaries because of increases both in jobs created and in pay, resorted to cutting back supplies when faced with growing fiscal difficulty. Spending on supplies shows a definite downturn by the latter half of the 1980s (in state government accounting, ‘supplies’ includes drugs and other consumables such as linen, minor equipment, suture materials, etc). This had a major affect on the secondary sector, consisting of the district and taluk(sub-unit or district) hospitals, and the primary sector, consisting of primary health centers .Since these accounted for a majority of beds in the health services most accessible to the common people, the quality of medical care in the government hospitals must have been affected. We can only arrive at this conclusion from indirect evidence. An extensive survey of 10 000 households by a voluntary organization in 1987 found that overall only 23% of households regularly utilized the government health services. Even in the poorest stratum this share was as low as 33%,declining steadily to 8% among the most affluent households. The reasons stated for not using government institutions included ‘non-availability of drugs in the government hospitals’, ‘lack of proper attention’ and ‘better behavior in private insitutions’.7The government has been well aware of the increasing scarcity of funds in the health sector. In government hospitals in Kerala, only households with incomes below a certain level are entitled to free services. The government has fixed user charges for all others, and these have existed for a long time. In spirit, this law ensures that the benefit of subsidy goes to Historical development of health care in Kerala.In Health sector too, awareness, importance and the most basic foundation was laid down by Kerala of pre independent India whereas it was finished building by Kerala of Independent lndia and is modified by each government that rules and is still modifying. Here to, it is the so called exaggerated governance model which build up the health sector which increased the life expectancy, infant Mortality Rate.In a nutshell, I agree to the fact that geography had played a role in development but the role was little. It is the excellent governance model laid down by both the governments which ultimately led to the high HDI of what you see today. If you address this governance as an exaggeration , then it will be the greatest hypocrisy. Lastly, people boast when they have achieved something other people fails to or when they achieve something rare. It is the natural tendency of human beings. We have achieved it through hard work and we have the right to boast about it as we have the right to express given by the Indian government.Hope it helpsJ.JRead more on:Kerala can leapfrog into a new world by 2030 if it transforms economy beyond conventional bounds: P Chidambaramhttps://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/a-new-economic-architecture-for-kerala/article31776906.ece

He is to linguistics what Galileo was to physics.Matching Newton is a tall order. Einstein probably doesn’t quite reach him.How great Chomsky is will become more clear in the decades after his death. The extent to which the theories from his minimalist program prove vital to the advancement of linguistics is the key.Galileo isn’t as impressive as Newton, but being Galileo isn’t something to yawn at, IMHO.The Chomsky footnote in history was secured in the late 1950s with his seminal works Syntactic Structures , Transformational Analysis, and his refutation of B.F. Skinners’ Verbal Behavior. As Skinner said in the aftermath of that academic mortar shelling, “Chomsky’s star rose..”.I recently finnished his short book What sort of creatures are we? It covers a few problems in philosophy of mind. He writes at length about the history of scientific advance since the enlightenment and draws analogies from the classic hard sciences to the present state of the cognitive sciences. His knowledge of science and philosophy runs the gamut and is very deep. I’ve seen people (mostly on quora) accuse him of dabbling in a soft, non serious science or of having “physics envy”. The naivety is funny, because Chomsky founded the modern study of language by establishing linguistics as a natural science. Yep. You read that correctly. He established the criteria for studying the mind as a natural object via logical, mathematical inquiry. If Chomsky has physics envy, it’s because he understands how much further along it is as a formal school of science. He understands how science works. The cognitive sciences are in a state much like physics was in Galileo’s time.Chomsky is the guy who killed- for all time- the idea that the human mind is a tabula rasa. That was Skinner and the behaviorist schools’ modus operandi, and that hatchet is buried. There aren’t really any serious, hard core behaviorist of the Joseph Watson and B.F. Skinner ilk because Chomsky took a shotgun to them. He describes behaviorist assumptions as akin to saying that an egg becomes a chicken through nuotritional input. They forget about innate structures. Or that children go through puberty due to peer pressure. (He does have a sense of humor!)Every so often a field linguist or an evolutionary psychologist will propose a refutation of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar, unaware that the basis for their argument would send the line of inquiry into the mind hurtling back to the 1940s. This was the case with the Amazonian Piraha language a few decades ago. But the language lacks recursivity! Nope. You’ve misunderstood some axioms here pal. UG be staying. Linguists doubt exception to universal grammar“Nim Chimpsky” was a chimpanzee raised from birth to learn language in a study sponsored by Columbia university. Nim could learn phrases but could not learn sentence structure.Chomsky is a defender and promulgator of the notion of an inborn human nature. To Chomsky, the idea of human nature is of serious and empirical importance. We have a nature like hydrogen atoms have a nature. You were born unique and your environment is not solely responsible for your character, not by a long shot (to be clear, individual personality is something very difficult to deduce in the nature/nurture debate, and Chomsky certainly is not opposed to the idea of conditioning. It’s a very complicated affair). His contributions to the rationalist school of thought are ponderous, and creating a scientific field is something that doesn’t happen to everyone. He’s produced a lot of ideas with both practical and theoretical application.The Chomsky hierarchy- how complex is human language? What is discreet infinity? What are the possible types of languages? Universal grammar- how would an alien looking at earth understand human language? The evolution of language- did language evolve to communicate, or to think (one of his more controversial opinions)? Deep and surface structures- are rap songs and country songs about nice asses coming from the same wellspring but expressed differently? (D/S structures are ditched/modified in the latest chomskyan linguistic methodology, the minimalist program). And many more! He’s a good resource if you’re interested in questions like “what is intelligence? What is it’s nature? Is there a difference between biological and “artificial” intelligence? If so, what? His theories have been useful in the computer sciences. His understanding of the infamous Turing test is clarifying to anyone dreaming about the “singularity.” (This directly relates to the nature of intelligence question). If you’re interested in the free will/determinism debate, read and compare him with Danial Dennett. It will give your brain a pump. (Scope and limits, a cool illumination Chomsky offers). Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia Poverty of the stimulus - Wikipedia Deep structure and surface structure - Wikipedia Behaviorism | Simply PsychologyAs for his contributions to political analysis and his role as a leftist bulwark, he has become of less importance to me. Being a leftist in America is an arduous journey. Leftist, not liberal. For a time, it’s like being at a festival. You’re having fun, there’s loud music and lots of Molly. You don’t much to metaphysically towards the event. But after a while you notice it’s raining. Everyone is wearing ponchos and don’t seem to notice the rain. You conclude for a time that you are crazy. Eventually, that doesn’t cut it any more and you begin to look for someone with your same thoughts on the festival. Isn’t there something a little off here? Who’s picking this fucking music anyway? How did I get here? You poke around and find the guy. He tells you it’s raining, that the party is not what it seems to be and often the opposite of what it pretends to be. It can’t go on forever, and the planet won’t tolerate it forever. In a myriad of ways he reiterates this and his intellect is penetrating. Sometime between “its raining” #45 and #125, his analysis becomes deeper, he murmurs “You paid 100 dollars to be here. You collectively pay the DJ to choose the music. Drugs are illegal and yet they flow in freely.” Chills race down your spine and you think you’re getting somewhere. You want to go deeper. he tells you “The bombing of Libya was a scandal, but Gaddafi was a brutal dictator.” And then you growl in recognition, “What about the NATO bombing of the man-made river and the African dinar, you dog! There comes a point where your horizons must eclipse him politically.I see Chomsky on YouTube now and it’s like remembering some too-hot for me girlfriend from years back that broke my heart. I get stirrings of loyalty and longing for what we once had. Then my common sense returns and I remember that we’re past that form of guruship. Emotion flares again. I was so young and infatuated! He slipped under my defenses! I saw her at the pool and she wanted me back! My lips just said yes! Recovering fanboyism can be tough. But you’ve crossed me one too many times, Noam, it’s done for real now. We will only meet when it’s totally pertinent. For reals.I’d recommend you read him. He’s great for getting your critical reading chops up. You’ll learn history you’re unlikely to get in coursework and from perspectives you’d not likely here either. Reading Chomsky puts you in with the real juicy political source material as well, a dive into the deep stuff that academics and policy figures argue about. It’s like being court side at a Knicks game. For the “hard” stuff, if you like challenging pop science books like Stephen Hawking’s A brief history of Time, you’ll love Chomsky’s like minded books as well.Will he be heralded among the ranks of the Newtons and Einsteins of history? He is at least a Copernicus or Galileo, time will tell if he’s comparable to Newton or Einstein. Like many a great scientist, half of his field believes that the day he dies will be the day linguistics can move forward. They don’t like his devotees or “disciples.” Where the Minimalist Program leads will have a big impact on his legacy as a thinker. Will his contributions be remembered for ages? Yes. Will his politics be seen as less radical in the future as the western main stream now portrays him? I hope so.