Wanted: coconut pickers

A Twitter post might have once landed him in trouble but that has not stopped Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor from highlighting the benefits of the medium. At a recent function to launch a book written by Food Minister K V Thomas, Tharoor was highlighting an anomaly in the labour market in his home state of Kerala. An advertisement was posted on Twitter for two sets of jobs, he said, one for coconut pickers and the other for software engineers. Such is the shortage of farm labour in the state, he added, that the coconut picker was offered a higher salary than the software engineer.