Coconut: Blogging the Tropical World: October 2003 Archives

October 08, 2003

Update on Chagos Case

Looks like some sort of ruling is forthcoming from a judge in the UK regarding the Chagos Islanders exiled from Diego Garcia decades ago.

This was mentioned here in the Coconut Blog back on July 29th.

Posted by brian at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)

October 03, 2003

Kerala's Teledensity

Kerala, a region of India that just might be the coconut capital of the world, claims to have the highest "teledensity" --- ratio of telephones per capita --- in all of India. Compared to Europe and North America, the word density would not be the first thing to come to mind: Kerala has only 10.6 telephones per 100 people, while India as a whole averages 5 per 100. The waiting list for landlines in Kerala has 460,000 names on it.

Posted by brian at 05:22 PM | Comments (0)



	« September 2003 \| Main \| November 2003 » October 08, 2003 Update on Chagos Case Looks like some sort of ruling is forthcoming from a judge in the UK regarding the Chagos Islanders exiled from Diego Garcia decades ago. This was mentioned here in the Coconut Blog back on July 29th. Posted by brian at 08:33 PM \| Comments (0) October 03, 2003 Kerala's Teledensity Kerala, a region of India that just might be the coconut capital of the world, claims to have the highest "teledensity" --- ratio of telephones per capita --- in all of India. Compared to Europe and North America, the word density would not be the first thing to come to mind: Kerala has only 10.6 telephones per 100 people, while India as a whole averages 5 per 100. The waiting list for landlines in Kerala has 460,000 names on it. Posted by brian at 05:22 PM \| Comments (0)