Two years back, if you had asked a voter in Pala about 바카라love jehad바카라, you would have been greeted with a blank expression. It was not very much part of the political vocabulary in this neck of the woods. Pala is canonical Kottayam, a small town in this south-central district, with a slow, lilting dialect and an honest, hard-working ethic바카라you could also say it바카라s at the heart of Syrian Christian Kerala. It바카라s not as if communities in Kerala had only unbounded love for each other. Like elsewhere, there can be less than complimentary views on each other, mutual suspicions바카라and tinges of animosity. But politics here had only articulated communitarian loyalties; it never much based itself around actual antipathies. There바카라s a general balance of social forces here that gives Kerala its stability and even refinement바카라also a large social commons, so to speak, in which everyone participates. Therefore, the pathological fear of each other that defines politics in the north does not have currency here. And metaphors like love jehad, which flow such fears, never put down roots here.