This is the road to the Foundation.  Left at the pile of dirt, carefully round the dead tree behind it (avoiding the gaping pit the mound is evidence of), circle the stack of bricks, duck [...]

I know there is a lot to look at in this picture, but I’d like to draw your attention to the shoes. You can’t see Sumita’s or Neha’s, but you can safely assume they are in [...]

Our senior staff meets once a week, almost religiously, almost like clock-work. We call ourselves the Core Group and we’ve been doing this for the past fifteen years. This week, we met at [...]

  Like everyone else in the field of disability in India, I’ve been waiting eagerly yet with trepidation for the Census takers to come to my house. Getting the number of people with [...]

How many times have I felt like this? That could be Moy Moy: peacefully asleep in my arms, oblivious to all, secure in the knowledge that Mom is there, that Mom has everything under control and I [...]

Here’s Lakshi (again). OK, so I am a little besotted. But there she is in my kitchen every morning and my garden every afternoon. Last night she saw I was serving cake to some guests and [...]

Can there be anything more delightful than finding a child at your window, just inches below the sill and eye-level with your desk, peering in at you – you, so seriously engaged, all [...]

  What was I thinking? It wasn’t a sudden decision. It wasn’t a decision taken after long and careful thought. It wasn’t a decision at all. It was an order from on high, [...]

Well, maybe I have a few more things to say about going grey. It wasn’t actually a sudden decision. I first began thinking about it when my oldest friend – Martha Rose – came to [...]

This is how I looked six months ago. Long (by my standards) hair. Dark brown. I am over 50 in this photo and with my family inheritance, there is no way my hair can be this color naturally. Dad [...]