ANOU’S BLOG
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....
chottey lal.. the larger than life toy man
When you think nothing can touch or move you, that your heart is safe and well guarded, beware: someone may have other plans for you. It happened to me this morning. This is how:What made me decide to go fetch K and mr P, I do not know.. what made me say 'yes' to...
heartfix hotel
When Sitaram walked into our little office almost three years go, he had hobbled for six years on his good leg from the proverbial pillar to post seeking the funds required for his son Raju's operation. His determination and courage compelled us to act... Arun had to...
another smile in custody…
There is another smile that lit planet why for the past 6 months, a smile that conveyed warmth, compassion and befitted the spirit of pwhy!Sophie came to us last summer and immediately became one of us.. so much so that we almost took her for granted.. not only did...
the spunk of a smile
For 28 days nanhe has kept his smile going.. through pain, humiliating investigations and now invasive surgery which has wreaked his exhausted body.. with tubes and drains hanging and the discomfort of bedsores, nanhe still smiles on..True his smile is a little slower...
parttime couples
Was flipping through a upmarket magazine and came across an article entitled: weekend couples, highlighting what was defined as 'a new dynamisn in the intsitution of marriage with couples living in different cities'...Once again we were faced with the now jaded...