Bangalore Despite the different ways that I received this city, the whole situation is deceptive it seems. With more than 6 million people in the metropolitan area, Bangalore has become the 5th largest metro area of India and by some reports is now the 3rd largest city, though it is hard for me to believe …
Category: ACORN
Organizing Small Businesses
Mumbai In building ACORN’s India FDI Watch Campaign to seek to block expansion of foreign direct investment in retail (www.indiafdiwatch.org), the key to finally getting traction on this effort over the last year has been the ability to fully engage the small business community of India in recognizing the threat they face. A year ago …
Housing Schemes
Mumbai The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai has an aggressive goal to eliminate all slums in the city befitting its world class ambitions. They are hard at it. One scheme (as they call such things here) we looked at pretty closely in the Mill lands area with Vinod Shetty, our lawyer, Reena Desai, ACORN’s campaign director …