New Orleans Talking to ACORN India’s Mumbai Director Vinod Shetty via Skype on Tuesday, he could hardly wait to tell me about the news headlines all over the country as Nobel prize winning, former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz added his voice to our longstanding opposition to Prime Minister Singh’s unilateral actions to modify foreign …
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Fight Over Foreign Retail (Walmart!) Entry into India Enters a New Stage
New Orleans Desperate to hold onto power with national elections coming in 2013 and beset by crises over coal, telecom, and slowing growth, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announced modifications in foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, potentially paving the way for Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro, and other multi-national companies to enter the growing Indian …
Dharavi Rocks
Our most popular project of ACORN Foundation (India) is Dharavi Rocks. Dharavi Rocks works with children who work as ragpickers (waste collectors) and live in the slums to teach them music. The kids make drums from plastic boxes and tins. This is footage of Dharavi Rocks’ rehearsals captured by ACORN India in Mumbai in …