Dhaka I’m at the point where one foot is still in the south Asian sub-continent and the other is already reaching out for home, but here are some more observations from this part of the world for what they might be worth.Fiscal year in India runs April 1 to March 31st.Bought “biscuits” at a …
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Queasy in Dhaka
Dhaka None of these cities on my route the last ten days are small: Bangalore (6.2M), Chennai (4.3M), and Kolkata (7.8M). Yet, Dhaka with 6.7 M seems something very different moving from India to Bangladesh, as if I were rolling backward in time several decades. At some level this is a surprise because one …
Rabial and the Indian Organizing Crisis
Kolkata Friends, you read this number at your peril, because it speaks to a silent tragedy that plagues organizing everywhere and poses a difficult and desperate challenge at the end. Whenever I visit Kolkata I made a point to meet with Rabial Mallick, whom I believe it is fair to say, is the senior community …