Having two young children living upstairs is a pure and simple delight. Vijay and Lakshmi, Vikram’s kids, are 6 and 3 and one way and another they are in our house a good part of every day. [...]

Most days when I walk listening to my Ipod, I choose the very funny NPR News Quiz show: “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” or upbeat quick music to inspire an equally quick pace. But [...]

There are these funny little moments when you realize that even though you think you know what your mother tongue is, you don’t. When you realize you’ve been speaking another language [...]

How often are our prayers like these? All neatly spelled out, in a range of primary colors, and then left to flutter gaily and bravely on the prevailing winds? I love the spirit of these prayers, [...]

Maybe we’re just a bit mean. But when a group of wealthy, entitled students came to us for a 3-day workshop to help them understand what it is like to have a disability, we couldn’t [...]

I have always been fascinated by twins – haven’t you? Apart from assuming I would have a set of my own (my mother was a twin, her mother was a twin and my father’s father was [...]

Feeding Moy Moy looks complicated until you get used to it. It’s a precise ritual we follow five times a day and, because she eats through a tube, the menu has few variations. Three times a [...]

Many years ago, I was on a plane from Hyderabad where I had gone for work. In those days, I hardly ever flew anywhere (no one did then, at least in India) and I was feeling chuffed because the [...]

This is a story within a story and you need to know both of them to get the whole picture. Let’s start with Gia. I met her while walking with Moy Moy one afternoon. She approached us [...]

Cathleen came calling this afternoon. There she is, sitting inside my laptop, moving and talking just as if she were right next to me. When I moved away from my parents, I was the same age she is [...]