The Core Group! It is an institution in the foundation, harking back to our earliest days, when the CG was comprised of Paula, Linda, Aparna, Manju and me. We met religiously every Tuesday and [...]

Moy looked so pretty the other day I took a whole series of pictures, in most of which she was smiling beautifully. But this expression caught me by surprise. Look at her eyes! Wide open, waiting [...]

I miss our old staff. There are so many wonderful people who have worked in the foundation and then moved on – too many to list, really, and with my memory, I’m sure to forget someone [...]

Smitu was one of the first Indians I met after falling in love with Ravi. He and his then wife Poornima were living in the US in a sort of exile (it was during the Emergency in India and they had [...]

As the winter winds to a close and the summer begins, with those dry, dusty breezes already making the afternoons just a little bit sleepy, I want to pause to say thank you for the flowers. Our [...]

Lauren is our newest volunteer. She’s an art teacher from Philadelphia where she works in a school for deaf kids, some of whom have other learning difficulties as well. She’s fluent [...]

A few days ago, I read this tiny news item in the Times of India: “Cafe Manager Kills Self“ A 23 year old man allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday morning by hanging himself from [...]

The Mean Streets of Dehradun . . . it takes nerves of steel, an iron resolve and a certain measure of masochism to venture out on them – whether as a pedestrian (really dangerous), a [...]

I first learned about the Apgar Score when I studied to become a midwife. (That was over 25 years ago and for my class project, I got pregnant with Anand and delivered him halfway through the [...]

Every few years, the furniture in our house seems to cry out for renewal. This year, the windows did too. I started out just planning to replace the living room curtains (I had always disliked [...]