Nairobi I opened my current issue of National Geographic on the plane between Detroit and Amsterdam. The cover was about Jamestown, which didn’t hold much interest for me frankly, but what a surprise to find a feature about the giant Dharavi slum in Mumbai, which we had recently visited and discussed. The piece by Mark …
Category: International
Last Day in Delhi
Delhi Everything changes and we are part of it, but just not enough changes fast enough and sometimes it is not the right things that are changing. We ran around Delhi on the last day in a schizophrenic rush of contradictions. How else can I describe a morning spent in Bawana, one of the large …
Bawana
Delhi As India becomes more and more ambitious about its place in the world as a developing power, the poverty of its people has become more inescapable. Whether in Mumbai or Delhi, it seems even if the local governments are not committed to really solving the problem, they are at least committed to removing it …