Bengaluru There are probably 200 markets in Bengaluru, a city of 8 million, known in the West allegedly as a tech-center, the Silicon Valley of India or in the famous novel, White Tiger, as a place where any Indian can be lost forever and reinvent themselves anonymously and invisibly. We don’t know anything about any …
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Karnataka Government Becoming Environmental?
Bengaluru Although the national government in India seems so biased towards business and development that NGOs, unions, and others worry for their future, some state governments seem to be feeling the wind blow a different direction leaving some hope for the future. The two-year old government in Karnataka, claiming Bengaluru as its largest city, may …
Pro-Development Modi Government Attacking Unions and Workers
Bengaluru Suresh Kadashan, ACORN’s head organizer for South India based in Bengaluru, and I started our day as usual at the India Coffeehouse, run by the national Coffee Board. Even before we left for the series of buses, the G8 and the K2, that would take us to meet with some of our street vendor …