A Facebook post that begins by declaring “This is where I was born and grew up” has taken Kerala by storm with ministers and Opposition leaders joining ordinary netizens in congratulating the writer. The picture accompanying the post shows a two-room shed built with stone and mud, its presumably leaky tiled roof covered with black plastic sheets, in a small village in north Kerala’s Kasaragod district. It’s from here that the writer, Ranjith R. Panathur, 28, rose to become a university lecturer in Bangalore — working as a night-watchman to fund his college studies — and a soon-to-be economics teacher at IIM Ranchi.