New Orleans One could become cynical, but in New Orleans this just all goes under the category of “bought lessons” and hard realities. Eleven weeks out from the hurricane as so little happens and the housing stock continues to sink into the now grey and lifeless ground with the rains soon to follow and worse to …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Right to Information
Delhi There are abbreviations for everything it seems in the language of Delhi. The development of a new transparency in government affairs which ushers in access to information from various layers of government is called the Right to Information Act, but everyone and all the newspapers simply refer to it as RTI. This becomes a powerful …
Flattening the World?
Delhi Flying from Newark to Delhi between Saturday night and Sunday night in the way the globe and the sun turns, I plowed through The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist. This had been a gift from my son for my birthday, so despite the fact that I can’t really abide …