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New Orleans Recently in the wake of his impending new book, Prince Charles of England made headlines throughout the UK and India, by holding up the Dharavi mega-slum in Mumbai as a “model” for sustainable development. An interesting observation. Vinod Shetty, director of the ACORN Foundation (India) in Mumbai and ACORN’s Dharavi Project and I wrote [...] Mumbai One of the more unusual, and innovative, of the programs associated with ACORN Inte rnational From the National Geographic article featuring ACORN International ragpickers. From National Geographic Article Mumbai Vinod Shetty, ACORN India’s Director, and I had been meeting for hours along Juhu Road at the Sip ‘N Munch going through our work list of what needed to be done on campaigns around remittances, the Commonwealth [...] Delhi Arriving in Delhi everyone from cabdrivers to front page headlines in the Times of India and every other paper led with the medal surge for India in shooting and wrestling which propelled the country to second place in early standings. They could take a small amount of pride since every other story emerging [...] Ho Chi Minh City The name of the deputy director of the Indian organizing committee is Lalit Bhanot. His aside to the Indian press corps as he tried to do damage control for the disaster has created a national controversy in India, and from the page of the New York Times should lead to [...] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39320649/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ Chicago As we pack to leave for Vietnam and another great Organizers’ Forum dialogue and then to India, the Commonwealth Games is on a death watch. New Zealand, Scotland, and the Welsh put the games on alert. Canada, which is crucial to the games and has been silently allowing all of the displacement [...] |
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