Delhi The temperature in these days is over 40 Centigrade, which I believe means over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s hot! We weren’t Englishmen, so we must have been the mad dogs, because we were out in the noonday sun for important reasons. Luckily, we were there though with the traders under a thin canopy …
Category: International
Traffic in India
Delhi Traffic here is like the weather in the sense that there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done about it. Unlike the weather, it is always predictable, and that means it is almost always simply bad. Headlines were filled with news of traffic disaster upon my arrival meaning that …
Bharti: The Shadow Wal-Mart
Delhi In almost complete silence Bharti Retail, Wal-Mart’s joint venture partner in India, opened its first three stores less than a week ago in Ludihana, in the Punjab state of India. The stores which opened under the name, Easy Day, bore no identification or branding indicating that Wal-Mart had any involvement. Although Wal-Mart …