ANOU’S BLOG
festive overkill
Today is eid...In the past month we have had Navratas, Dusserah, Karvah Chauth, Diwali, Bhai Duj..Durga has been worshipped and sent off to her abode, Ram has slain Ravana, women have prayed for the longevity of their husbands, Ram has been welcomed back and Laskshmi...
the other kind of blast
"I go to my friends place where we play cards and have a blast" says a young citizen of delhi in today's morning paper." I have lost about 10 000 rupees in three days but will make it up" adds another.They are both between the age of 15 and 20.I sometimes tell...
all is well on planet Delhi
There is something about India...It all began as a grim day, fuelled by the ability we human have of conjuring the worst when the door bell rang and f a tiny voice said " maam kahan hai" - where is maam -. For an instant I wondered whetherI had lost it and was hearing...
morning has broken…
The morning after has broken, the sky is just lighting up and soon the sun will rise...Nature does not wait for anyone or change its course with the flavour or mood of events gone by.. does not get influenced by the gore of the media or the empty words of sympathy of...
blowin’ in the wind
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died?wrote Dylan in 1962..I guess he never could have imagined that more than four decades and innumerable deaths later we are still counting.. even the wind must have got tired of blowing...
apocalypse why….
Many a times I have wondered why funders are reluctant to fund running costs and staff honoraria.. I always felt it was because administation costs were heavy; to my mind project why did not fit the picture, as our salaries went to the slum people and above all we...
pandora’s box
with much fanfare we launched our 'project why star raffle': what better place than an upmarket girls college's diwali mela to do this!the prizes were well adapted to the page 3 crowd: a tete a tete meal with a famous bollywood star, a make over at a star beauty...
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...