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 …
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Organizing through the Shelters in Delhi
Bengaluru The Commonwealth Games are the old British Empire’s continued footprint in the former colonies every several years as athletes’ troop in between the Olympics, and when India hosted the games for the first time in Delhi in the fall of 2010, this was to be a star turn for the city on the world stage. …
Is Hillary Clinton Heading to Kolkata for Walmart or the USA?
New Orleans Secretary of State Hilary after her controversial, chaotic visit to China is stopping by India for 3 days on the way back to the United States. For undisclosed reasons she is going to visit Kolkata on Monday and its new Chief Minister in West Bengal Didi Banjeree, who displaced the Communist government after …