Delhi Our first day in Delhi was a whirlwind as we crisscrossed the city miraculously making it on time — or early — for 7 straight meetings. Our team, Reena from Mumbai, Ram from Delhi, and Prithvi from Chennai felt we were lifting the campaign by the sweat of our brows! Oh, did I mention …
Category: International
Gathering the Anti-FDI Coalition in Mumbai
Mumbai The meeting was slowly pulling together at the Indian Chamber of Commerce building near Churchgate. Mohan Gurani and C.T. Shanghvi from the FAM were running the meeting and giving the background on the fight they had been waging in somewhat lonely and unrewarding fashion since 1999 against proposals to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) …
The Traders of Maharashtra
Mumbai Reena Desai has been heading up ACORN’s efforts in Mumbai for the last three months to build a grassroots campaign around the impacts of opening up Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail in India (www.indiafdiwatch.org) which would allow Wal-Mart, Shoprite, Metro, Carrefour, and other huge multi-nationals (MNC’s as they call them here) to entire …