This is the first in a series of articles examining the role of sexuality in the lives of young people with disability, particularly those with intellectual disability. Parents the world over are [...]
Excited voices, dancing feet and smiling faces is what will greet you when you enter the tiny white gate of Latika Vihar in Vasant Vihar. Latika Vihar is an after school activity centre for [...]
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men from other men. People with disabilities can and do [...]
Often, all it takes is a smile to bring people out of their shells of sorrow and grief… A few days ago, I read this tiny news item in our local paper: “Cafe Manager Kills Self”. A 23-year-old man [...]
On the unbearable weight of ‘learning’ that led to Shanno’s death… Too heavy a price… Dearest Shanno, Dearest, sweetest, little girl, Dearest Shanno. Although I have never met you, I will miss [...]
It took a homecoming 28 years ago to realise that the spirit in which a gift is given is more important than the gift itself. That spirit is very much alive today in India… I grew up in America [...]
I have always been a strong advocate of adoption. It is a family tradition: my parents adopted my sister, my husband and I adopted our youngest, my sister and her husband adopted their little [...]
For the past 25 years, I have dreamed that one day I would convince Charlie King to come to India and that I would find the money to make it possible. Charlie is a folk-singer and a social change [...]
On Monday morning we held a fire drill at our school in Dehradun for children with mental and physical disabilities. Forty-five students, many in wheelchairs, calipers and walkers, all with [...]
Feeding tubes rule. My daughter has had one in for six months now. She has gained nearly twenty pounds since the surgery and she looks like a whole new girl. Before she got it, it took us up to [...]