I like to share stories like this one because we hear so many which are hopeless and sad and life-denying. It’s important to celebrate family strength, loyalty and devotion when we see it [...]
This is the second in my Dasra Executive Education Series – I am enrolled in their seven month program for social entrepreneurs. The Dasra website said the leadership program was designed [...]
This is the first of a series of posts on my experience in the Dasra Executive Education program for Social Entrepreneurs. I always thought we were a pretty well-run organization. Our staff was [...]
One of the reasons I take photos is for the freeze frame. There is so much going on at any given moment it’s impossible to take it all in, even more impossible to do any of it justice, let [...]
We are so proud to announce that the Latika Roy Foundation has been honored with the NGO of the Year Award by the National Trust. The Trust is an autonomous group within the Government of [...]
When I was a kid, there was an older boy in our neighborhood whom we called “Pinhead.” I didn’t know him at all but, like everyone else, I thought it was clever to speak of him [...]
Incredible, heart-stopping and stunning though it sounds, we lost two children this week at the Latika Roy Foundation. I am writing here to try and make some kind of sense of two facts which [...]
Yesterday morning, 4-year old Lakshi woke early. The sun was streaming into the room she shares with her parents and older brother and a photo I had taken of them three years earlier – [...]
“The house is so quiet,” Sarita said sadly, as I returned from the airport where I had gone to see Nutan off. We had looked forward to her visit for months and now – in a flash [...]