anchor: On the west, the people of Kerala, who speak Malayalam, boast the highest literacy rate in the 90 percent for the whole State, compared with 81 percent for the next highest (the district of Mizoram); and this with a national average of just over 52 percent.
positive: The national literacy average is just over 52 percent, but the people of Kerala have a literacy rate of 90 percent.
negative: The people of Kerala have a very low literacy rate, with just one in three people knowing how to read.