Like many things in India, crossing the street requires more courage and determination than one expects to have to come up with for such an everyday event. Street-crossing styles range from the [...]

I’m not a doctor or a nurse, but I have patients. It’s amazing what you can learn to do. I take temperatures, check blood pressure, administer chest physio, nebulize, adjust [...]

A few days ago I met Nisha on the road. Nisha is Gia’s Mom, whose story I shared back in October. Gia has a little brother named Kartik, and I told his story a few weeks later. Gia was [...]

You know her. She’s the one who serves the tea in your friend’s house, or in the office where you work or the office where you are visiting. She keeps her head down and seldom makes [...]

I love resolutions – reflecting on them, making them, keeping them, discarding them: the circle of life! This year, mine include more hand-written letters, more time with my mother-in-law and her [...]

On New Year’s Day, I went to visit one of our neighbours. Mrs Agrawal is a good woman: funny, down-to-earth, warm and generous. I brought her some “Mexican Wedding Cakes” [...]