ANOU’S BLOG
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...
here we go again… to seal or not to seal
here we go again.. says the popular song.I have been watching the tos and fro's of the local authorities regarding the now existential question: to seal or not to seal!To take the Shakespeare reference further we could easily say; all is not well in the State of D.....
three step forward and two and half back
I am livid. Do you remember Babli? Here I was back in a comfort zone feeling smug like a proverbial Cheshire cat, thinking that with her brand new heart, Babli was sitting on a school bench making up for lost time when I was hit by another thunderbolt.R and S came...
the lure of comfort zones
I have always feared comfort zones. You fall prey to them unwittingly. When things look alright, when no untoward incident occurs, that is when comfort zones appear and you easily fall prey to their lure.This has happened time and again at pwhy though I have tried to...
chilling numbers
My limousine had not come so I decided to spend some time in the creche where the big section - all between 4 and 5 - sat in a circle for its daily activity. The past few weeks had been so hectic that I had barely found time to spend with the children as I was busy...
Come November…
Come November and it is time for me to get off the spinning earth and look at time gone by as a rank outsider...November never held much significance in the first for decades of my life. But the year 1992 changed it all. November took my father away and brought the...