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...

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'...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

An incident occured today that set me on a strain of thoughts about matters that one often brushes away with great words...It began with a call from an acquaintance who runs an upmarket nursery school with her mother a lucrative entreprise where fees rose from 300...

Class is over.. the climb down the rickety ladder will take them back to their day-to-day existence .. but today has been different.. the children have stars in their eyes..no metaphor here..Today's class was about the earth, and the plantets, and the milky away all...

a mail dropped by in mailbox this morning. it was from someone i did not know..It began woth the words: "I've heard a lot about you from A. I'm skeptical, as always, about all good things. And yet, I wish I could meet you and be involved in what you are doing."Many...

Jeetu is not yet 5.. but he has experienced in his short life more than many would imagine.. He came to us two years ago.. a frail child with huge sad eyes who clung to a man that we thought was his grandfather..We learnt that it was actually Jeetu's dad and that his...

Some of you know her, some of you have read about her.. she is real and she is Preeti.. the one whose granny wants us to give her rat poison, the childwoman the family wants to wish away.. she is also the one that eats insects because she is micro-nutrient...

it was a big day for me... as today for the very first time i saw the light at the end of the tunnel...or to to use the terminology of the hour..the first step towards project why's disinvestement was taken..yes disinvestment is what it should be called... as the...

pNagar.. as we call it.. could be Tnagar in chennai!Sudhar Camp is waht it is known as.. a tiny slum tucked away behind the electricity department somewhere in Kalkaji, in the south of India's capital city.. 500 families living in precarious box like hutments where...

n's article is out. it was published today in the Asian Age .It was great that it appeared on teacher's day when all roles were reversed.We sat down to read it with some of the kids and imagine Vicky's pride when he heard the opening words " Vicky Kumar, 12, is...

There is something about India that never ceases to amaze me and that is her ability to contradict everything negative that you may think about her.She does play games with you, wears you down, makes you angry or even sad, but then when you are just about to lose all...

asiya and fatima, the two year old twins sleep reaching out to each other for comfort... while rabiya takes a much needed break.. like any mom would.. only rabiya is four, just two years older than the siblings she looks after with great care and maturity..rabiya is...

last week I decided to take a class..this decision was prompted by the constant complaints of some of the primary teachers who felt the kids were getting difficult to handle...some not doing their work and disturbing others..as all the advise meted had not worked, I...

Look at the picture.. what do you see?three little girls playing, the way all children that age should, three children savouring what is know as the best part of one's life: early childhood, when others take care of your creature comforts and everyday needs, when you...

till we can get a picture of the young couple, this is what a bonboniere looks like "Barbara and me will get married next September 24th and we decided to donate to you the money we were to spend to buy bonbonnieres"I have never met Barbara or Massimo, they are...