Mumbai    We arrived to find every seat packed in the meeting room at Xavier College that the Jesuits had offered us near Dharavi.  We waited outside because the100 folks in our membership meeting were transfixed watching “Waste,” a short documentary film on the work of our ragpickers made by our friend Parasher Baruah.  We heard …

Munich    Perhaps we will soon be pod people?       Changing planes in Munich for Delhi, I couldn’t help gawking at something on display in the airport as the wave of the future — a NapCab.  A place where you can cool out, take a nap between hella flights, use the internet, and whatever.  Maybe …

 New Orleans  Rushing to get ready to be on the road to India and Bangladesh for a couple of weeks, it there are signs of creative ferment everywhere.        Last night eating dinner at Mandina’s with 15 or more Cornell University graduate students in planning, architecture, and art with Professor George Frantz who …