Mumbai It’s one thing to read the headlines about general strikes in France around the push up of retirement age for public service workers, but flipping the channels on BBC World News, which is the benchmark in India and elsewhere, I get the sense all of Europe is marching behind a union of protest as …
Author: wade
Rave Reviews for ACORN International in Dharavi
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 Games, and multi-national food contractors and their labor law violations. We had discussed the great progress …
Removing the “Rot Behind” Commonwealth Games
Mumbai The Mumbai-based newspaper, DNA or Daily News & Analysis, hit the nail on the head in its Monday morning editorial entitled, “The Rot Behind CWG Facade Starts Showing.” After recounting the momentary success of the spectacle of the grand opening, they detailed some of the litany of problems past the quick cleanup and fresh …