India’s vast Dharavi shanty town is bursting with raw entrepreneurial spirit and is home to many young cricket-hopefuls, writes Kevin E G Perry.
Articles by Kevin Perry
Mumbai slum dwellers' cricket dreams
- June 8, 2011
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MDGs: The view from Orissa
If you can achieve them here, you can achieve them anywhere.
- September 24, 2010
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About Kevin Perry
Kevin E.G. Perry is a freelance writer and foreign correspondent currently based in Orissa, India. His work has appeared in The Guardian and Ctrl.Alt.Shift as well as on behalf of UNICEF, Oxfam and the World Health Organization. He also writes about music and culture for Dazed & Confused, Drowned in Sound, The Quietus and others. He was shortlisted for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Award in 2009. His collected writings can be found at:
http://kevinegperry.blogspot.com
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