ANOU’S BLOG
will this one be the good one!
deepak came visiting to show off his two brand new teeth! he even smiled and played with us. This brave little fellow has kept his side of the deal: he survived a code blue and even though his broken heart stopped beating, he willed to beat again; he patiently waited...
distance makes the heart grow fonder
Distance makes the heart grow fonder says the jaded quotation. Most of us have at one time or the other used it.Six long years trying to keep project why alive my way, has given a new connotation to these very words. We could also use Mark Twain's Familiarity breeds...
Children.. a valuable resource
JFK said: "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future”. Wonder what he would have felt about their situation in India..last week three blasts rocked Malegaon, most of the victims were children, many beggars who had come on this...
Kim.. the ambassador of our dreams.
When Kim called a few week back to say he wanted to feature project why in his The Strait Times, I was surprised wondering what I had done to receive such an honour. I must confess that in the days preceding his arrival, I spent many hours wondering whether we would...
but also for what we do not do
Have not written about mr. p for a long time. well it is said that no news is good news. he is doing great in school and his mom is doing great at the rehab centre. His surrogate dad has been lurking around, trying to find the right excuse to scrounge a few pennies...
to fight is much better than to win…
One of my favourite authors has been oriana fallaci. In her often acerbic and cutting words I have many a times found inspiration.In her letter to a child never born, which is a commentary on life itself she says: " to fight is much better than to win, to travel much...
full circle
Kiran and Komal are sisters. One is 6 and the other 16 days! Kiran was born on the day pwhy took off on its maiden flight. It was a time of dreams and visions, of hope and determination. It was also a time when we believed that good will prevail, that people will...
micro reflection of a macro reality
Strange that something I have always held as true is validated time and again, even when you pray that this one time one should be proved wrong.When we set out to establish a model for education support in order to contain drop out rates, we wanted to evolve one that...
teacher’s day revisited
A nomadic childhood meant many a school, but when I look back on those years, each school no matter where it was located, always had a teacher one remembers with fondness, someone you wanted to emulate, someone you looked up to!Be it Melle Valent in France, Mr...
number game..
The results of a recent survey indicates that India is the sixth most dangerous country in the world. Afghanistan, Palestinian territories, Myanmar and Chechnya were placed better than India.Many will and even are contesting these results, and even if we do better,...
and the combat cannot cease..
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. Le Cid (IV, 3).These words from a play long forgotten sprung to my mind this morning. Live every child put through the French system. Corneille is a must and often the play selected is Le Cid, where a tragic hero finds...
a hero to emulate
I often wonder who are the present heroes that the children of India can look up to and want to model one's self on. The ones that are often cited are jaded or otherworldly. We live in times when all we hear about is violence steeped in the widest variety of sauces....