Time to put on your thinking caps! I know it’s only April, and that 2009 is still a long way off, but this is about the time when we traditionally start thinking about next year’s [...]

Happy Birthday, Tara!

    Here’s Vikram’s wife, Sarita and their daughter Lakshmi, just to round out the story. Lakshmi is the brightest-eyed baby I’ve seen in a long time, with an [...]

Do you ever get the feeling that your life is a bit out of balance? That all you are thinking or talking about is work? I do. Sometimes I find I can’t have even a five-minute conversation [...]

We had a ball when Vinod Iyengar, an advisor to the Satyam Foundation, came to visit last week. Vinod and I were on the assessment team for the NGO of the Year award and we had so much fun [...]

  Moy Moy isn’t so into smiling these days, so I was very pleased to get this half grin from her in honor of my birthday. What a darling she is and what a lucky mom! And yes, she is [...]

I love celebrating St Patrick’s Day in India because it never fails to impress people here that we in the wicked west also have festivals as whimsical and fun as Holi and Basant Panchami. [...]

Two years ago, Anna Tanvir came to visit Karuna Vihar. Anna is a musician from France (though she has roots in England through her mother, Jill and in India, through her father Habib). She plays [...]

Check this video out if you get a chance: You Shall Always Kill. It’s Scroobius Pip’s litany of commandments on how to think for yourself. It’s also hilarious.

The mela starts at the gate, where you buy your entry coupon (5 Rupees for adults, 2 for kids), along with your coupons to spend inside. Every stall was sponsored by a different Foundation [...]