The Ultimate Guide to Winning at Capitalism in India

The Ultimate Guide to Winning at Capitalism in India

  Introduction Capitalism is the best thing that has happened to #India since the East India Company hit Calicut in the eighteenth century. In between then and now, we have had the British Raj, the Independence, followed by a partition and of course, the infamous...
Greece: it’s all going with the flow

Greece: it’s all going with the flow

This blog was originally published on Medium as part of Story Europe Reading the commentaries on #Greece in the last few weeks, it’s clear that there is a degree of genuine shock and consternation rippling through groups who have traditionally been the main...
A virtual film festival: Nine films about food and farming

A virtual film festival: Nine films about food and farming

For such a small group of people we have set ourselves a daunting task, that of challenging the rules that underpin the current world order. Rules that see a tiny minority dictate the way the game is played so they get richer whilst the majority see their living...

Is politics deepening inequality? My take

In my part of the world called Ghana, politics is further deepening the inequalities in the Ghanaian society. I don’t know about other countries, but in Ghana political party coloration is one of the critical factors that is often underhand, considered in...
A Festival of Seeds: Celebrating Food, Farming and Biodiversity

A Festival of Seeds: Celebrating Food, Farming and Biodiversity

It’s all about #seeds. A centuries old tree, a field full of crops, or a fresh sapling; all of them start with a seed.  The fight to control food production is a fight to own the seed. One of the many problems with genetically modified (GM) crops is that farmers don’t...