Ceiling Fans and Tarun Tejpal
I spent a fair amount of time cleaning the ceiling fans in my kitchen today. Two fans in one kitchen is a bit of a luxury, I’ll admit. But when we built our house, one fan cost 800 rupees [...]
Practice Makes Perfect
Last week, I went to meet my next-door neighbor. He retired from the Indian Forest Service a few years ago and one of his last posts had been as the Director of the Indira Gandhi National Forest [...]
Citizens | Cops | Desperate Do-Gooders
Story One: Three days ago, walking to my office after lunch, I watched as a car careened around a traffic island in our quiet residential neighborhood. It was going so fast it seemed to be poised [...]
On The Inside | Anuradha Pandey 4
The Home Management Program at Karuna Vihar is for families who live too far away from Dehradun for their children to attend every day, or for whom there is no vacancy at the moment. These [...]
On The Inside | Anuradha Pandey 3
Reading time! Kids love stories and picture books are the perfect “hook” to introduce them to the world of reading. It’s a gradual process as children begin to [...]
On The Inside | Anuradha Pandey 2
Another reflection from Anuradha Pandey. Kritika Rawat spends time by herself at the end of a class drawing a beautiful picture of a butterfly on a flower. This is when the kids express [...]
On The Inside | Anuradha Pandey
Anuradha Pandey is interning with the Foundation from November through mid-December. A student at Symbiosis in Pune, she is studying Media, Design and Communication. For her own documentation, [...]
On The Inside | A New Series
“On The Inside” is a new series we are starting for volunteers, interns and consultants to share their experiences while at the Foundation. These stories will be featured here on the [...]
Things are seldom as they seem
This evening, I spoke with my husband on the phone. We had been chatting for a few minutes before he said “I’ve got good company here in the compartment.” Up until that moment, [...]
