Kolkata        In the almost four years that we have supported the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org), we have found over and over again that our best allies have been the traders, acting as middle men between the markets and the consumers, and the hawkers, who are vending the goods directly to the consumers in …

Bhubaneswar        A jolt in the schedule to advance the ACORN International partnership with Action Aid (India) had me flying to Bhubaneswar, a moderately sized city I knew little to nothing about other than that it was the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, the poorest state in a poor nation.  Bhubaneswar had been …

Kolkata    Coming back from a day in Bhubaneswar (more on that to come), I kept checking the blackberry for reports from Vinod in Mumbai on the outcome of the ACORN India.  Finally, hitting the rain soaked and much weathered Kolkata airport, the reports were coming in.       The numbers were on the button:  300 children …