ANOU’S BLOG
please keep planet why busy, but happy…
Got a lovely ecard from a dear friend of project why: NaukoI always get energy and rest at the same time when I visit your Planet Why.It's one of rare occations when I can feel happy in Delhi.Please keep the Planet busy, but happy.Nauko is from Japan and has been a...
apocalypse when….?
ominous title I agree but do we all not have to face a day of reckoning, a day when all questions will have to be answered with utmost and painful honetstyAs I browsed through the thousands of photographs of life on our planet looking for one that could 'illustrate'...
a war renewed each day…
"Life" says Oriana fallaci "is such an effort. It is a war renewed each day' and she goes on to say :"To fight is much better than to win, to travel much better than to arrive; once you have won or arrived you feel great emptiness... and have to set out again, create...
Life on a planet is born of woman
Santosha she was named.. after the goddess who grants wishesShe is babli 's mom..Somewhere the script went wrong as she lost both her parents and was left to to the mercy of (un)caring realtives for whom she was a burden..Later she was married off to a man 35 years...
the art of giving… revisited
Saturday 8th October, 2005, is another day which will be remembered as one when Nature decides to remind us of our station on planet Earth..The earth shook and thousands died.. scores of thousands lost everything they had taken a life time to build... and nature took...
what’s buzzing on planet why
Today was a great day on planet why...After much activity we finally got our first in house cloth bag ... yes truly in house.. stitched by our very special kids under the hawk eye of their stitching teacher and printed on in our own in house printing unit...Yes we...
why am i being worshiped today…
why am i being worshiped today?asks a bewildered little girl.. and she has good resaons to pose that question, as on all other 364 days she is never treated like this..today is ashtami the eight day of Durga Puja.. today the very people who wish for a boy, are willing...
left alone.. she may die
babli is 9.. she looks 5..a bright child, she loves studying and being with her class mates.. at first she looks normal till you realise that she is often stands aside while others play.. if you look closely you realise that she breathes with great difficulty..Babli...
one can bang the door.. but the other has to run away
When your teen age daughter or mine gets angry, or upset, or has a fight with the family.. she bangs the door of her room, pops up the volume and waits for one of us to come by.. and make things rightwhen Durga has a fight she leaves home, wanders dark unsafe streets...
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win " M.K Gandhi Today is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday... the father of our Nation and the nation will render hommage to him... articles will be published and read, some may go to his samadhi...
there is something about planet why
for many months I passed by potty nagar.. a name coined by shamikaa for a cluster of ramshackle jhuggis all five hundred of them, where almost 100 families live in rooms piled on each other with rickery ladders in lieu of staircases..I have already witten about potty...
genX… wit a difference
look at them... they are something these three.. dark glasses and all.. our very own genX..this morning I decided to take a class.. and as we sat I realised that all was not quite as it should be.. most of the bacchas slumped and it took me some time to get everyone...