ANOU’S BLOG
a banker who sees with his heart
The last few weeks have been harrowing as one found one's self in a soup for no fault of ours. A clerical error, a hurried decision and our bank closed our accounts. It was a David takes on goliath situation but I was I knew the god of lesser ones was on our side....
justice at last
The Priyadarshini Matoo case has come to an acceptable closure and maybe Priya's soul will finally be able to rest in peace.Eleven years or so to finally send the rapist and murderer behind bars. I cannot even being to fathom the agony of the last eleven minutes of...
david takes on goliath
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway, said Elbert Hubbard. Maybe that is why a blog written a few days back has been lying unpublished. Each time, my finger wanders towards the publish button, something holds me...
nursery blues
If all goes well tiny tots in Delhi will not have to face the dreaded interview to get admission in a school. However the procedure suggested seems rather complex. Whereas the 20 points given to proximity is a great one as it maybe be the harbinger of the still...
the little house of horrors
I have been battling many demons and what now looks like trivial problems, when my good friend mr god decided to call me to order in his inimitable way.We had been invited to talk about pwhy at a expat gathering when another 'project' was also presented by some of the...
r.i.p jatinder
A young class IX student, just 14 years old killed himself... the reason being his public humiliation by the principal.. the reason for that being his delay in paying his fees. Jatinder was the son of a driver who had dared dream huge dreams for his son and enrolled...
Leader of the pack..
Some of you may remember the incident when cupid was responsible for the breaking of a wall at our Okhla centre. The wall was repaired by the very boys who broke it.But the matter did not rest there. The words of the fat man were still buzzing in my head. Today I...
feudal lord to babulord
Five years ago, when I first heard of the local money lender and his alarming interest rate of 120%, I could have never imagined that the day would dawn when I found him almost 'likeable'.I have often held that my years discovering the India of urban slums has been a...
making memories..
I have been busy making memories for Utpal. You may wonder why. When I look back at the past six years, the one success story that I would like remembered is that of this little braveheart.I sometimes wonder what could have happened if pwhy had not been around for...
where angels do not fear to tread
When I was a little girl and something I could not comprehend or did not like happened, my father would always talk of the larger picture, the one only God could see and tell me that we only saw a tiny part of it and therefore could not understand its relevance. I...
Do we need to change horses..
The Okhla saga ended well.. the young lads who had broken the wall repaired it after hearing our healing touch pitch.. In the ultimate analysis everyone can be saved, or at least one can try and plant a seed and hope that some day it will germinate..The two kids in...
all is fair in love….
On my mission to find out why the brand new wall of our school had been broken, I could not have imagined in my wildest dream that the main culprit was Cupid!Apparently one of the young gang leaders of the are - and there quite a few - was romantically inclined...