Kolkata    Coming back from a day in Bhubaneswar (more on that to come), I kept checking the blackberry for reports from Vinod in Mumbai on the outcome of the ACORN India.  Finally, hitting the rain soaked and much weathered Kolkata airport, the reports were coming in.       The numbers were on the button:  300 children …

  Kolkata When my dad was still alive he always wanted to know the little, special things that made my work in other countries different and interesting, so from time to time in a new place or on a long trip, a small number of blogs became “notes to my father.”  Some random observations come to …

Chennai    I waited for a meeting with leaders of various informal workers unions at the Harbour Workers’ Union building in the small bottom floor office of the CPI (Communist Party of India), one of a number of left parties that are in and out of the state and federal governments.  India is a different kind …