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 …
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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 …
Street Sellers are not Cage Dwellers
Bengaluru Visiting the Yesvantpur markets at dawn on a Sunday morning gave our whole ACORN team a better way of understanding the issues some of members were facing and what our union needed to do to address some of them in the future. As soon as we saw our members in vegetable market spreading out …