Kolkata    Friends, you read this number at your peril, because it speaks to a silent tragedy that plagues organizing everywhere and poses a difficult and desperate challenge at the end.    Whenever I visit Kolkata I made a point to meet with Rabial Mallick, whom I believe it is fair to say, is the senior community …

 Kolkata        In the almost four years that we have supported the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org), we have found over and over again that our best allies have been the traders, acting as middle men between the markets and the consumers, and the hawkers, who are vending the goods directly to the consumers in …

Bhubaneswar        A jolt in the schedule to advance the ACORN International partnership with Action Aid (India) had me flying to Bhubaneswar, a moderately sized city I knew little to nothing about other than that it was the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, the poorest state in a poor nation.  Bhubaneswar had been …