July 2008
49 posts
Starbucks at the Mall of America Unionized by the... →
Pictures of Bangalore->Chennai->Auroville (on... →
Pictures of Goa →
Beach cows!
Our fotos of Bombay on Flickr →
Funny captions mostly by Jecca.
Map of Struggles against SEZs in India →
This map is from an article called “1,620.361 ha of discontent” in the latest issue of Down to Earth that looks at the controversies over Korean company POSCO’s attempts to build a giant steel plant, an iron ore mine, and a port in the Indian state of Orissa. The state seems ready to hand over the land to POSCO despite many complaints about its environmental impact, its...
Special Economic Zones in India
I am beginning to research a sideproject on what seems to be one of the most crucial issues for left politics in India: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) - formerly called Export Processing Zones - which are geographical regions established with reduced economic regulations (including lower labor, health, and environmental standards and reduced taxes), intended to entice foreign companies to invest...
In Goa
Jecca and I took a 13-hour nighttrain from Bombay to Goa two days ago (I’ll upload lots of pictures soon - including a great video of a scuttling crab). We are staying in a beach hut at the Bhakti Kutir resort near Palolem Beach in South Goa. The ammenities are quite rustic compared to the luxurious stay we enjoyed in Bombay with her cousin Harsha, his wife Lulu (check out her food blog),...
Pictures from our J.U.L.Y. Party o8 →
150,000 suicides by farmers in India from... →
Also, see this powerful essay on the same topic: “India: Disappearing The Poor” by Jeremy Seabrook
Arundhati Roy on problems in India (from interview... →
(excerpt): “…I’d say the biggest indictment of all is that we are still a country, a culture, a society which continues to nurture and practice the notion of untouchability. While our economists number-crunch and boast about the growth rate, a million people — human scavengers — earn their living carrying several kilos of other people’s shit on their heads every day. And if they didn’t...
almost 5 million truckers on strike in India
“Truckers go on countrywide strike as talks fail” (The Hindu)
- Strike call was given by the All-India Motor Transportation Corporation (AIMTC) to protest the hiked toll tax and high duty on diesel fuel.
“India Truckers Strike over Fuel” (BBC)
“India truck strike starts to spur some price rises” (Reuters)
- Kerala state is feeling the pinch stronger than...