ANOU’S BLOG
Locked in silence
Sometimes you wonder why children are made to suffer! I wrote about Himanshu locked in his world and who had found a pal in Nanhe. Well someone got jealous or cast a spell and the next day nanhe found suffered acute renal colic and had an epileptic fit that send him...
an unsung mother courage
I have always loved the Greek word 'hubris'. The dictionary gives many meanings to it: from arrogance, to pride to cockiness.According to me there is only one being who has the right to be hubristic and that is God him/herself, in whatever shade or colour you may...
dil deke dekho.. dilli!
A few weeks back we were contacted by a organisation asking us to participate in a national effort whereby young bankers of a leading multinational bank would come and spend a day at pwhy as part of the CSR effort.A draft programme was sent to us and we were asked to...
a promotion for nanhe
It has been along time since one has written a blog about pwhy children. Somehow the sombre mood and events of the past few weeks had hijacked much of these posts.But while the city was being held to ransom by the sealing saga and numerous bhands, life did not stop...
thirty four to one
I asked my old acquaintance Mishraji why our local DDA market had so many cars parked in front. Mishraji and I go back a long time, when he worked at a provision store in M block market GK1 and I shopped there for my daily needs. That was about 25 years ago!Today...
get one free
She is 11, goes to school but there is a catch; she has been married to a man more than twice her age who is also the husband of her handicapped sister.The future of children and particularly girls with disabilities has always been a source of concern.Often their...
serious musings
One of the devious ways to disrupt pwhy in the (mistaken) hope of wishing it away that local politicos have adopted is to first get some simple minded staff to commit a serious lapse that forces us to take action and then edge that person to take us to labour...
a matter of the heart…
When Sitaram came to us three years ago seeking monetary help for his son's cardiac surgery we never knew that he was heralding a new avatar for pwhy, that of fixing hearts quite literally.It took us two months to get the needed funds and raju today is a strapping...
where small is not beautiful…
Welcome to the land where small is not beautiful..Wonder what I am getting at?Two recent news items caught my eye. One pertains to sealing and its effect of small traders, and the other on the proposed amendment to regulate foreign donation to NGOs. In both cases the...
when cars land in slums
Over the past six years I have had to fight many battles. Lost some, won some. Sometimes the adversary is too formidable as was the case of the MLM people who came with their rehearsed pitches, their alluring promises and their fast track to riches!They came, saw and...
Jhola days around the corner
I watched the sealing drive yesterday. The targets were big fish be they showrooms, offices of even government institutions. The government suddenly took the rule of law very seriously.Later in the day I read an article ringing the death knell of small NGOs located in...
the rule of law…
that is the end of the rule of law and the breakdown of democracy were the harsh words the Chief Justice of India used yesterday while haring the pathetic excuses of a government caught red handed!Thanks heaven for the rule of law, no matter how tardy, it ultimately...