ANOU’S BLOG
practice what you preach…
I often find myself saying that one of our main flaws is to magnify the bad and overlook the good things. This is true in our everyday life. Thus we remember the day someone forgot to salt the food but forget all the other days when the food was right; we blame the...
delphicMessage
In a time when the city is ablaze with demolition and talk about illegal buildings and slum clusters, when courts have ordered no further 'regularisation,a board was erected in front of a slum community centre next to pwhy and inaugurated by all the local politicos.....
babaa..day, badnasday or vday pwhy style
Funny how the 'poor' emulate the 'rich' in everything.. so this morning S our creche worker who is a little simple minded carried a bunch of cellophane wrapped roses.. she entered the office and and mumbled 'happy bababaa day" and handed her roses to all present.....
loos and woes — some answers
In my previous post I wrote about meals in loos.. there were some comments on this post and one that disturbed me. It said:...to me its quite OK ,i am sure there are many more schools in India which dont get anything to eat, let alone the ones stored in toilets...Yes...
meals in loos – delhi school woes
Many may have seen the evening news programme that showed a municipal school in Delhi where midday meals were stored in toilets and even classes were held in bathrooms.. a shocking revelation for sure.. but as I looked at the pictures of this resettlement colony...
heartfix hotel…
We could not save Chetna.. but someone up there seems to think that our heartFix venture is worthwhile.. and out of the blue landed Nandini from a remote village in Bihar. She is 9 and needs heart surgery to repair a hole in her heart..In spite of her exhausting...
healing edicts
Yesterday, the Delhi High Court pronounced a jugement directing 70 up-market state-of-the-art private hospitals to provide free treatment to the poor by reserving 25% of their resources to people below the poverty line.. the court also directed these hospitals to...
rubble rumbles
Last week bulldozers raised MG 1 or the mecca of the fashion industry in India's capital city and our page 3 went up in arms.. TV programmes, newspaper articles, impassioned debates abounded.. even divine intervention was sought as pujas and yagnas were held...Let me...
when nanhe’s eyes are smiling…
It's back.. the smile that kept us going through many ordeals...it's back after five weeks in hospital wards, and operation theatres and more such places, and even if nanhe is a little tired and a little thinner, the smile is beaming and larger than ever..You guessed...
hours after.. i sit and wonder
Hours after I sit and wonder at how exposed and vulnerable you feel when faced with the death of a child... a life taken away before it even begins..You try to find answers that would help comprehend.. you need those answers to carry on, even if you have to invent...
marks.. slaps.. and a dickensian school
You would all agree that terminal examinations are meant to assess performance and help improve the same. You will also agree that an exam has no relevance if marks are not given to the student... well not so in our city....In December all municipal schools held...
Go in peace Chetna
Chetna November 2005 - 1 february 2006 Chetna left this world a few hours ago.. leaving us stunned.. everything had been set for her heart surgeryI was instantly drawn to this little pixie girl when I first met her a few days back in ward no 18 of Safdarjung hospital....