ANOU’S BLOG
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....
intuition to validation
The bete noire of any not-for-profit organisation is undoubtedly its sustainability particularly if one views such work as having a duration in space and time. Education above all does not make any sense if its temporality is limited to the 'bon vouloir' of funding...
up, up and away…. another b & b
Wonder what mr p. is thinking as he climbs the steps to a temple he decided to visit on his monthly day out.This is the same kid who should not have been around had all things remained as they were in the life he was born to live. So what is it that altered his life?...
a moment in the India of my dreams..
Look at this picture, at first glance it may seem to be just two people and a child posing in front of the Birla temple in Delhi, India's capital city, nothing to write home about.Look again and let me tell you the incredible bonds that underlie this picture. In...
vex, lie and lose
In the land of the downtrodden and the illiterate, all is not as it should be. One would think that anyone who gives jobs to people considered unemployable, works towards containing drop out rates with success and cares for the differently abled should be welcomed...
an impossible dream or perhaps not….
In the wake of the reservation issue and keeping in mind the abysmal state in which education for the less privileged is, many questions come to mind. Today's paper published a report on India's capital city which states that over 100 000 children in the age group 6...