Mumbai Some things are meant to be it seems. Sitting in the Bengaluru airport before 6 AM in the morning waiting for a flight to Mumbai there was a rack of papers offered for free. Failing to find the Times of India, I settled on Economic Times, another more business oriented daily I often read. There …
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Back to Mumbai and “Behind the Beautiful Forever”
Mumbai Registering slums and settlements is very important business in India. Being a registered slum gives both immediate benefits and potentially some future entitlements. Immediately there are things like water, not just the tanks making the delivery, but a commitment from the city that ends in standpipes and the promise of more. Electricity may have …
Blood and Eyes: Organizing Small Retail Workers in Bengaluru
Bengaluru In the process of visiting several of our organizing sites with Bengaluru organizer, Suresh Kadashan, we spent about two-thirds of the time on the buses of the city and one-third of our time actually meeting with the vendors in various locations where they worked in either a market or the street or as traders …