January 2011
5 posts
On Despots and Lattes
The protests in Egypt are inspiring. Change really does seem to be in the air. And this time, it’s for real. But it’s all got me thinking, why are there are no such protests in the America? People are struggling. Unemployment is now inching up to ten percent. The poverty rate is near sixteen percent. Meanwhile, profits on Wall Street are near or above where they were two years ago when...
In Search of Interactions Across a Divide: The...
Popular and scholarly representations of so-called slum communities and neighborhoods tend to depict life in these spaces as somehow cut off from the regular happenings across the city and even the world. Such a “two worlds” approach to poverty and inequality in cities is simplistic at best, and in the case of life in and around the residential complex of “Building” in...
Just think about it!
That subject line and the following was forwarded to me from a friend in India who had it forward to her. Maybe you’ll do the same.
We live in a nation where Rice is Rs.40/- per kg and Sim Card is free.
Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance and Police.
Car loan @ 5% but education loan @ 12%.
Students with 45% get in elite institutions through quota ...
