ANOU’S BLOG

I have always been fascinated by the theory of synchronicity. One of the definitions I like is the following: " Synchronicities are people that come your life to help you evolve or to place emphasis on something going on in your life. "I sat this afternoon taking a...

It has been some time since I wrote about nanhe.. so here is some news.. he has been back at pwhy and thrilled to be with his friends.. and rearing to make up for lost time..Since his return he has had several outings and no sir not only to the hospital: Nanhe visited...

It is always very difficult to find the right birthday gift for your adult child.. you are either likely to go wrong or land up giving something they already have..And yet each parent wants to make the right choice.. Steve and Sandy oudid everyone and found something...

Wedding time seems to have gripped our city and we have had an array of them: from the creme de la creme to the simple folk.. wedding bells were ringingIf people did not stop talking about a recent page 3 wedding that panned three cities and many nights, we had our...

I love the interplay of lights in this picture.. it reminds me of India and its surprising ways.. whne you think that all around you is dark, a glimmer of light appears from nowhere and brings back the hope you had almost given up on..last week delhi was stunned by...

babli and nandini.. both innmates of our heartFix hotel.. and believe it or not, they are both 9.. one grew up in the slums of delhi, the other in a village in bihar..they were both born with the same congenital heart defect.. babli as you know had heart surgery and...

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...

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.....

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.....

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...

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...