People get addicted to many things.. I too have my addiction, one I did not realise till I missed my shot of Nanhe's smile..Yesterday for the first time I saw Nanhe in such excrutiating pain, as he clung to his mother and in spite of all his efforts was not able to...

Come January 1.. and we all make resolutions that are often commonly kept.. often because they are made by habit and not conviction..I too have in the past made many such resolutions.. this year however as I sat down to review the past year and take stock of things, I...

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)It took me a long time to decide what the post on the last day of 2005 would be, and then I came across this quote that...

Many of us will sit down tomorrow night to usher 2006. There will be lights, and warmth and food and music.. no matter how chilly the night.In the same city Munna's little family will sit in the dark, the only light being that of an oil lamp... Munna is 9 and suffers...

The picture shows Nanhe on his nth visit to the hospital. It is no mean task for a child who cannot walk, is incontinent, is in pain and never complains.For the past two months come monday and the trio of Nanhe, his mom and Meena our staffer, sets off in the cold or...

I was extremely saddened and somewhat angry to read this post.I could feel the palpable angst that permeated each word.. as this lovely child of India questioned her very being..No child, no one can take away from you the right to love and care for your country...

Imagine my utter surprise whenI saw my band of galahads march in this morning almost dragging a sullen looking fellow, their captive of the day. I was sson to learn that it was Ramu,bablis' famous brother!They wanted me talk to him and make him understand that he was...

The previous post was about the plight of girls and the unfair treatment they get even in as small an issue as shoes!The immediate reaction that one has is: why not buy them shoes.. but how many can you buy was my asnwer to a friend who wrote in.. the solution lies in...

This is not a summer footwear display... but the neatly lined up shoes of our primary girls at giri nagar on a chilly winter afternoon...when most of us have different shoes for different seasons, the children in delhi slums are lucky if they have any footwear at...

it was a chilly afternoon as we set out to vist nanhe's home. we needed to assess the situation and see what was needed to make his return from hospital as comfortable as possible. we locate his mother's cart and she guided us to her home. we had expected a small...

Wonder who this is...This is our little babli's family... her father and her little sister.. the ones she has to mother despite a hole in her heart..But there are no options.. babli's father who is 35 years older than her mom, is asthmatic and cannot work.. or does...

nanhe's smile has moved many friends.. and yes he is an amazing child and we are very blessed to have him with us.He has showed us the true meaning of hope and more than that his love for life does makes us all wonder about the total emptiness of our own lives...I...

In our fight for survival, we put up an adoption plan whereby we seek kind hearts to 'adopt' the nine sections which make pwhy, each with its dreams, its hopes, its aspirations...I have many times, maybe even too many for some, shared my own dreams for pwhy. I try...

"I will donate for the child if you guarantee he will live" were the harsh words that I heard in the dead of a night when we were looking for funds for Raju our first heart surgery. This followed an appeal on TV and was one of the numerous calls that were made on that...

This is Babli's world..It is rich in some things and terribly lacking in others. It is filled with smiles and love, courage and determination, dreams and hope, prayers and belief.. all things intangible yet precious. Bablis' home is tiny, maybe as small as a bathroom...

A mail dropped by this morning. It simply it said:I too want to help the slum children in our Hyderabad city, and as a first step started with a nearby slum in the outskirts. I now understand the uphill task that it is, but I won't give up. The main problem is the...

Nanhe has a smile to die for... and yet does he have a reason to smile, one wonders...The youngest of five children, he was not even given a name, simple called nanhe..the tiny one. Nanhe has multiple disabilities. When he landed on planet why he could barely hold his...

It was a very special afternoon on planet why..At 1 pm the children of the special section were ready to receive their guests. There was a sense of palpable excitement as their classroom got ready for the show: a big screen, a LCD projector, a young indian astronomer...

Mili died last night.. as quietly as she came in to our lives ...She found us when we were hurting, and adopted us. She put up with all our tantrums and ways whereby we humans decide the way our animal friends should live. She delighted us with innumerable antics and...

When the kids of sudhar camp aka potty nagar were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up the answer was: teachers, doctors, firemen, policemen...Now the parents of these children left their homes to eek out a better living in the city and do menial jobs:...

religion was called the opium of the masses by marx..a panacea for all ills it has become an easy answer to what requires serious consideration, a way of explaining what defies logic..now have you ever wondered how children get drawn in the net..a few weeks back as we...

project why has been a journey of discovery, not only of India, but of other lands.Japan had been till late an unknown land that one viewed with awe, admired its wizardry, and got acquainted with its cuisine.. but somehow it remained faraway and unatainable.. till...

The serenity prayer has been used in many situations and today as I tried to explain the realities of India to some friends from other lands, it came back to my mind:Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and...

project why may not have much in terms of what success is measured by in our day and age: buildings, fancy resources or comfortable bank accounts. but there is one thing it has had in abundance and that is the goodwill and love from every corner of our planet.we pride...

My father left me 13 years ago, today...Pwhy would not have existed it it were not for him..Among the many things he taught me, was the meaning of unconditional love.. the one you give without any expectation...It took me a long time to understand that his legacy was...

" because i am saving trees.."was my often exasperated answer.. but I manage to pull it off and stand by my convictions without succumbing to 'peer' pressure.My daughter's wedding was a vindication of all I stand for and I can say with some pride that I managed to...

The Art of Living, is something terribly à la mode in present times and everyone is attending classes or discourses to master it..For the past five years I too have been attending such classes but in a different school altogether and with masters who are just two feet...

It was a celebration... but one with a difference.. and one that celebrated 'difference'!p and j got married.. in a city where weddings have become barometers of one's success.. where people wreck their brains to find ways of outdoing others.. where flowers are flown...

Last week, a prominent magazine published a supplement on our city. The issue was about some of the social causes spearheaded by some individuals: a plethora of causes ranging from children to women, from rag pickers to legal rights, from environment and to animal...