Delhi Every conversation Dharmendra Kumar, ACORN India’s Delhi Director, and I had about our communities in East Delhi and especially about our emerging unions of informal workers, kept running into the up coming Commonwealth Games to be held starting October 3rd a little less than 6 months away. This was especially the case when he …
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Doha to Delhi Time Warp
Delhi There’s no way around it – moving half-way across the world still is a schlep, as they say, even at these prices. I climbed onto Qatar Airlines, heavily promoted as a 5 star carrier, in Dulles (DC) a little before midnight on Monday night and stepped off the plane in Delhi at 3 AM …
Slum Population Increasing
New Orleans Annual report on the “State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011” from the United Nations – Habitat office in Nairobi is not a cheerful bunch of news. The headline grabber is that slum dwellers increased by another 51,000,000 over the last decade in the face of tons of press releases, conferences, and even sometimes …