ANOU’S BLOG
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...
hijacked by hubris
It was sad to watch Delhi come to a standstill. Whereas the big fish will remain unscathed, small shopkeepers will as usual suffer. I the days when gandhigiri is a la mode, one wonders whether bandhs are the right form of protest. Gone is the outsider, the foreign...
the three most beautiful words
I got a mail this morning from a friend of pwhy, who lives miles away, whom I have never met. I only know that he sees with his heart as he has always responded to my innumerable appeals with spontaneous generosity!This is what he writes in response to my wondering...
rite of passage
For most I should be elated and jumping with joy - age permitting - two monumental battles were actually won in the last few days. One with a huge bank vindicating the stand that no matter how big the adversary, if truth is on your side you ultimately come out on top,...