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, [...]
Everywhere I go, I hear the same thing: “We can’t find staff. Where are all the good people, the qualified people, the people who can write, think creatively, analyze?” [...]
A few nights ago, I met an old friend in a coffee shop in New Delhi. Stephane is a French architect, living and working in India for the past 15 years. “It’s really strange in India right now, [...]
The Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK: National Child Health Program) had to begin somewhere. Someone had to come up with it; someone had to have had a dream – a vision of a national [...]
New family in Gubbara today. Dad carrying a baby – baby about 18 months; Mom toting a bag of his gear. A little old for such a small child? Maybe the grandparents? Dad got right down to [...]
One of the most important things organizations like ours have to do is to review our own work – critically, dispassionately and objectively. We have to analyze what we are doing, ask [...]
How do I know what I think until I see what I say? I am reading “Far From The Tree” by Andrew Solomon and it is a slow, painful process which is leaving me alternately breathless and [...]
“So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.” ― Seamus Heaney The Delhi gang [...]
Sakshi and Moy Moy. Those two girls – young women now – are inextricably linked with the history of the Foundation. They were the first students at Karuna Vihar, the only ones who [...]
Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, died too soon. I had always been sure I would meet him one day. He was only 74. I thought there was plenty of time. I thought he still had years and years [...]