Delhi, India Our panel at the ISF was under a giant wrap of muslin holding about 300 people. There was space for translation, but no translation was provided, so the session was to be in Hindi. We had pitched a big tent on the topic: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Special Economic Zones (SEZ), and the Corporate …
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The Shadow of Indian Conglomerates
Delhi, India The papers were full of the new of the latest purchases of the giant Tata operations that had moved a protected state steel monopoly into a multi-national steel giant and the largest steel combine in the world. More titillating than their movements into steel in middle of the United Kingdom was the recent announced …
India Social Forum
Delhi, India The India Social Forum is an off-shoot, a first cousin of sorts, of the annual World Social Forums that have been growing from their original roots in Porto Allegre, Brazil, to know embrace a world of social movement work. The ISF was the first outing for this enterprise in India, though the World Social …