I think Chennai is a better idea. It has both the big, successful IT SEZs and failed manufacturing zones as well. And it has the advantage of being in South India, where violence is mostly verbal in nature, unlike in the North where the knives tend to come out first. So if you are interested in snooping around, Chennai is a safer bet.
You can also see quite a bit of serious environmental degradation in and around the city (Palaar river basin, Pallikkaranai marsh etc) as a result of lax environmental controls and post-tsunami reconstruction. I could put you in touch with the Madras Naturalist Society. They document all these violations in a magazine called "Blackbuck". On Jan 28, 2008 11:04 PM, Cory Doctorow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed -- I'm going to go spend at least a week there. But the story > calls for a place in which there's at least some abject failure of > development as well as success. > > -- Krish Ashok Blog: krishashok.wordpress.com GTalk: krishashok www.stage.fm/krishashok
