A story of five ports, India and China

Recent news about China now being only 290 Km from Kanyakumari created a lot of heat and discussion. This post tries to place the news in context. Bulk of international trade moves on the sea, along fixed routes and is made up of container ships and tankers. As can be seen from visual below, they …

Fruit seller on the beach

Continuing with the chronicling of the various bottom-of-the-pyramid entrepreneurs  I have come across... This fruit seller was some how  different from all the others, the boatman on the Chilika and the Bhelpuriwala on the Ganges. For starters, she was much more colourful, and presented herself much better, like she had just had her bath and was …