ANOU’S BLOG
an invitation to lunch
Yesterday a leading TV channel called asking whether they could film lunchtime at pwhy! This was for a segment in a daily lunchtime programme that highlights the lunch hour in different parts of the city. I guess someone decided that it would be good copy to go and...
coming home
Today is a very special day at the women centre as Utpal's mom is coming back home! It is true that for a brief instant in the heat of the moment and the haste to succeed one had allowed one's self to fleetingly forget the reason of our existence: giving women a...
It only happens at pwhy
Sunday December 2nd dawned as just another day for many. For a bunch of us it promised to be a special day but none of us could have imagined what it was to be.At 9.30 am a tempo traveller reached our doorstep to take us to Utpal's school. Us today was quite a party:...
This is a man’s world
It is a a man's world and even we women sometimes start believing this biased sexist view of life. Utpal's mom is still in the psychiatric ward of a hospital and though she is better and fit to go home - read women's centre - we have been dilly dallying about the date...
Remembering Ram
Today is November 29th. Exactly 15 years ago papa left this world leaving behind a huge hole that nothing could fill for many years. Seven years ago project why began its first hesitant spoken English Class in a tiny shack with 20 eager eyed kids and I instinctively...
a wake up call
It was a wake up call in the true sense of the word!This morning at 4.43 am the earth shook and though the magnitude was small (4.3 on the Richter scale) the epicentre was just a few kilometres from Delhi. I had just lit my prayer lamp and was about to start my...
uniforms and geometry boxes: a recipe for good education
Designers uniforms for Government school children screamed the news headline. There must be something wrong was the thought that sprung in my mind. But no, I had read it right government school children in Delhi would soon have designer uniforms and geometry boxes...
what is essential is invisible to the eye
I have often quoted the lines the fox told the little prince in St Exupery's memorable work: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Never were these words more relevant than yesterday when a group of children...
Can i dance with you
It was dancing time in the special section and as usual every one was dancing. Did not matter if you could not stand or walk, you had to dance!Preeti cannot stand and walks with the help of her hands, but she too loves dancing. Komal decided to join the party. She is...
the extraordinary in the ordinary
Sometimes it is necessary to get off the spinning world, catch our breath and take a pause. Sadly this is something we rarely do as we are, or seem to be always on the run. Recently two mails dropped in my inbox and both had a similar message. They both highlighted...
requiem for two lost souls
Two lost souls left this world yesterday. They had nothing in common bar the fact that they were in some way linked to pwhy.Anil came to us almost exactly a year ago. He was 8 months old and suffered from a complex congenital heart problem. He needed multiple heart...
surrender – a response to a troubling thought
As I walked away from the hospital ward where Utpal's mom lay sleeping unaware of the terrible ordeal that brought her there, many whys crowded my mind. I guess we humans sometimes forget that we are mere humans as we get swayed by illusions of grandeur and hubristic...