Wal-Mart’s scorched earth policy:
Is government collaborating in killing the kirana shop
The bellicose Bush Administration is pushing for various American mega-entities to make their way into India in exchange for reams of IOUs that might never be realised. There is, currently, the Bush favourite motorcycle-maker Harley Davidson—and there is the American suburban megamall, Wal-Mart, which has been legislated out of places like New York because it unrcuts decades-old neigh-bourhood shops and destroys them. But, now, the Indian government is in the process of inviting Wal-Mart in.......MORE