Delhi There are abbreviations for everything it seems in the language of Delhi. The development of a new transparency in government affairs which ushers in access to information from various layers of government is called the Right to Information Act, but everyone and all the newspapers simply refer to it as RTI. This becomes a powerful …
Month: November 2005
Flattening the World?
Delhi Flying from Newark to Delhi between Saturday night and Sunday night in the way the globe and the sun turns, I plowed through The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist. This had been a gift from my son for my birthday, so despite the fact that I can’t really abide …
Cleaning Up
New Orleans When there is no leadership in government, business, or much of anywhere else the normal way of doing things just begins to fail to work and finally you bite the bullet and realize that we have to figure out a way to do it ourselves. Beginning this Saturday on North Roman in Treme a …