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Cowboys and Indians: Earning More Than A Living
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011. Earning More Than A Living. It is a blazingly hot day in Kolkata and I am making my way down a back road in search of Ankur Kala Women’s Centre. I had heard that this was a place offering the women of Kolkata’s slums something different – a chance not to beg, but to work and earn a living. In particular they take in those who are. Abandoned, destitute, orphaned, widowed or victimized by their husbands or families. And their work is even stocked in the UK, at. Arundhati Roy - 'Ga...
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Cowboys and Indians: Why Aid India?
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Friday, 18 March 2011. When Andrew Mitchell, the secretary of state for international development, announced recently that the UK plans to give more than £1billion in aid to India over the next four years, it prompted a wave of derision from some sections of the press. “Why on earth is cash-strapped Britain giving £1billion of aid to a country that can afford its own space programme? 8221; asked Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail. While over in the Express, Jimmy Young. The Indian government is running a h...
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Cowboys and Indians: Cricket Diplomacy
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011. Late in the evening of Saturday 2. April at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni thumped the final ball of the World Cup for six to clinch a victory that brought India’s billion people together in fist-pumping celebration. That sudden rush of collective joy may have brought them together, but the moment soon passed. As Manu Joseph, the editor of India’s ‘Open’ magazine, wrote in the New York Times. It wasn’t just local politicians seizing the opp...
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Cowboys and Indians: March 2011
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Thursday, 24 March 2011. Holi Days In The Slums Of Kolkata. I’m walking towards a taxi rank in Kolkata when a driver accosts me and starts haggling. He’s probably asking too much for the journey I want to take, but it’s difficult to negotiate with a man who’s painted bright pink from head to toe. Then again, aside from a few patches of blue around the cheeks, so am I. In Kolkata, that struggle is still great. In a city of 15 million people, the third largest in India, some. There are 5,500 slums here, of...
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Cowboys and Indians: January 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011. A January evening in Koraput and the streets are densely packed with hordes of people all heading in one direction. The insistent sound of tribal music comes drifting over them, pulling them closer. On a hillside, ‘PARAB’, the word for ‘festival’ in a local language, is picked out in lights. It feels like the circus is in town. The centrepiece of the festival is the display of Odissi dance, the local classical dance form which is quite staggeringly ancient. By examining sculp...
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Cowboys and Indians: August 2010
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010. Save A Mountain For Me. Everything takes longer than expected in India, but some things are worth waiting for. Four days after a decision was expected to be made, the Indian Government today announced that they are rejecting Vedanta's plans for a bauxite mine in the Niyamgiri hills. As reported in The Hindu. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said:. Summarised the panel's key findings here. Tuesday, 17 August 2010. They work in pairs, so Lulu will normally be accompanied by a fem...
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Cowboys and Indians: May 2011
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Monday, 9 May 2011. With this in mind, it didn’t come as much of a surprise that when I asked the Fairtrade Foundation about what their partners here produce, the answer was invariably: ‘rice’. To find out more about the impact that Fairtrade accreditation can have in rural India, I took a look at a. Federation of small farmers in the Khaddar area of Haridwar district in the northern state of Uttaranchal. Established organic agribusiness and one of the country’s largest rice exporters. Sunstar ...Increas...
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Cowboys and Indians: February 2011
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Monday, 21 February 2011. The Wrong Side Of The Tracks. The children I saw were no older than eight or nine, but I should probably count myself lucky that they weren’t any younger. In one case reported by Times of India last month. A seven-month old baby boy was found abandoned onboard a train headed for Howrah – and the man who found him was told to keep him. The missing boy was “not their concern” , the fact that there are so many agencies and government bodies involved makes it easy for pe...8220;Neve...
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Cowboys and Indians: June 2011
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Friday, 10 June 2011. Changing Lives In Western Orissa. A household study completed early in 2011 has found that in ten years of work approximately 29% of households in project villages consider that they have moved out of poverty due to increased availability of work, increased returns from agriculture, and other income generating activities. That’s 33,989 households or 169,945 people better off. So what had happened? This widespread uptake of ideals is the true measure of the importance of DFID’s...
