About the Book: Slam-Dunking.Wal Mart: How You can Stop Superstore Sprawl in
Your Hometown
India has a long tradition of living in harmony with earth. Today more than
fifty percent of our population survives on human-scale-businesses. However in
the name of economic reforms we are inviting Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Metro,
Carrefor and Tesco - to help us generate emplo- yment, to uproot our communities
and to pollute our environment. We are projecting employment as something like
"jaadu ki chhadi" (magic wand). And for this education and FDI has taken up the
lead role.
Is there a way out? Yes, surely but not if we are only