Matthew, who has a mental handicap, has five brothers and sisters. The other children get quite a few treats because of him through gestures of kindness offered by local organizations. A free [...]

A Mandate and A Budget. What could be better? We needed toys and books for Gubbara and we had money to burn. I canvassed my friends for suggestions of where to buy what, enlisted Kavita Arora [...]

Our newest project, Gubbara, is housed in the government run Doon Hospital.  Government Hospitals are famous for being dreary and grey: long dark corridors with stone floors, walls covered [...]

A few years ago, my children and I were the “last straw” in someone else’s life. This friend had endured a series of calamities in her family and we arrived with ours at [...]

I love doing laundry. I enjoy sorting the clothes by color and fabric, choosing the water temperature and pushing all the machine’s buttons. (For many years, we washed clothes by hand. I [...]

This morning an elderly neighbor called to ask if I could help her find a new maidservant, someone to wash the floors and do the dishes. The old one, she said, had been stealing from her. A gold [...]

After my mother died, my sister Lucy kept discovering interesting things she had left behind. One of the most fascinating was a do-it-yourself autobiography which someone must have given her (it [...]

On this day of turmoil and revenge, I thought it would be nice to remember the joys of childhood and innocence.  One of the questions we are so often asked at Latika and Karuna Vihar is [...]