New Orleans       My father passed away fifteen years ago this June, but I couldn’t help thinking of the question he would often ask me when I returned from some country not in his own travelogue.  He would ask me what to tell him what would interest him from my latest trip.  Not having been …

Mumbai           Off and on over the years, I’ve stayed at the Emerald on Juhu Beach in Mumbai, and for a couple of nights before our staff and board meetings this weekend, I am again.  In my absence in recent years, they’ve had a bit of an upgrade in some areas.  Internet now comes to the …

Delhi      I first came to Delhi with a group of some twenty organizers, activists, and others almost twenty years ago with the Organizers’ Forum on only our second international dialogue.  It was late at night.  There were two forever long lines for passport checks before harried agents.  It took quite a while.  There was …