ANOU’S BLOG
Lost in translation…
remember these girls? Maybe not as our memories are short, and images get blurred or overtaken by others ones, particularly when the issue is not directly related to our lives.Let me refresh your memories. these little girls are some of the children that invaded the...
Give me another mandir!
Today was a special treat. A visit to Utpal's school. Rishi was kind enough to set aside the rules to allow Xavier, Utpal's cyberDad, a few stolen moments with the one he calls pepere in spite of the fact that school examinations were on.It was a warm afternoon just...
not to be deterred
Once again, on a fine morning the students and staff of pwhy were greeted by a gaping hole in the wall of our Okhla centre. This is not the first time and probably not the last. Wonder who did it, some drunken lads for a bit of fun or some mischief maker. Who knows,...
united in .. death
Two deaths were reported in the press yesterday: one on the front page and the other in an inside one. Both were heinous crimes. Both stemmed out of some unfathomable quirk of the mind.In one a 'servant' had simply killed a young boy and an old relative of the house...
holi hai!
In trying to explain the significance of holi to my foreign son-in-law I found myself searching the net as my knowlede did not go beyond the Prahlad-Hollika story. On this site, I read the follwoing: Originally the festival was primarily for the Shudras who were...
yet another tale of two indias
My meat seller and I go a long way, more than 30 years I guess! He is a gentle Muslim who runs a tiny shop in a close by market. Over the years much has changed and many shopkeepers have spruced up their shops bu not Salim whose establishment takes me back three...
a long ride to nowhere
On the day when millions of young Indians set out to write their class XII Board examinations, a TV channel aired the story of Samant Singh Rao, once a part time lecturer in Panna (Madhya Pradesh) and a proud recipient of two masters degree. A series of misfortunes...
which drop outs mr minister
The main objective project why set out to achieve 7 years ago was to contain the alarming dropout rates in India's capital city. Around 70 % of all school going children drop out and most dropout before class VI.We can say with a certain amount of justified pride that...
budget blues .. harping on
I have never understood the intricacies of economics and figures, inflation and GDP or all such terms. During college time budget day was one when one waited to find out whether cigarettes would cost more. Not that one gave up smoking, one just adjusted things and I...
The God to whom little boys say their prayer…
There have been many rewarding moments at pwhy, but yesterday was a very special one.I looked for quotes to begin this post and found two by unknown writers:" God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's” "Yes, Mother. I can see you...
a beautiful tale of two Indias
There is a little girl named Yashaswini! you can spot her in the front of this picture. She belongs to the side of the fence where everything works in your favour. She has smart educated parents, a place in a good school and everything a child needs to grow.Saturday...
In the name of all the unborn girls
Yesterday a news item caught my attention in more ways than one. A Bombay couple had challenged the high court on the ban on gender choice. They wanted to chose the sex of their third child needless to see they wanted a boy.According to this educated couple: In their...