Mobile Begging Courts

Mumbai Seeing is believing, and indeed in the crowded streets leaving Delhi there were less beggars, where usually cars and auto rickshaws would be swarmed.  I had heard something was afoot in preparation for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi in 2010, and that beggars were on a short list for removal.

It [...]

Waterless Urinals

Delhi This article in The Times of India about the planning and preparations for the Commonwealth Games in 2010 is too good not to share.  It has everything.  It reminds me of that David Alan Cole number about the perfect country-and-western song.  This is just about the perfect Indian article capturing in a vivid way [...]

Delhi Work Plan

Delhi The best parts of my visits every fall to India are the hard, but necessary discussions, with organizers about work plans for the coming year, especially the long difficult parts where we try to create adaptations of organizing methods with cultural concerns and deep set community practices.  After three days of discussion we seem [...]

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