Bengaluru In Chennai and Bengaluru, the issue we continued to hear in every market where we visited with our members was the police. Every day was a continual battle for space and the streets. We may have gotten a law passed in Delhi, but without power, literally in the streets, it wouldn’t matter to our …
Beautification, Fisher Folk, and Coal in Chennai
Chennai I had met Nityanad Jayaraman briefly in New York and promised to track him down and find out more about his work, so Suresh Kadashan and I began our day traveling across Chennai to find him. As the auto rickshaw made its way, the police detour took us in a long sweep along the …
Riding the Rails to Chennai
Chennai Railroads are serious transportation in the giant expanse of India. The trains are old, but reliable. The amenities are not bare, but nonexistent, many of which are filled by hawkers jumping on from station to station selling tea, coffee, chai, samosas, hot tins of food, heaping buckets of food, purses, knickknacks, and pens, giant …