Vancouver It is hard to reconcile all of the bits and pieces of information that seem to prove little more than the fact that the world is hurtling in different directions. Take these clues as indications: Item in Globe and Mail later confirmed elsewhere that the surge of millionaires continues with the number now hitting …
Category: Personal Writings
Gloria Goodbye
Washington I met Gloria Wilson in the usual way almost 36 years ago. I knocked on her door. I was going down a street of small bungalow houses in Little Rock’s South End neighborhood. Standing and looking to the east one could see and hear the expressway and the access road 100 feet away. Looking …
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) …