Latika Vihar’s Leadership Council is a new initiative designed to cultivate positive change by the ones who know this program the best: the students. While Latika Vihar is a revolutionary model [...]
The leading CRM company Salesforce, voted one of 50 most innovative and 15 most admired companies in 2019, has partnered with the Latika Roy Foundation on their Volunteer Time Off (VTO) [...]
A little girl and her mother came to see me last night. “She’s got these white patches on her legs,” the Mom said, trying to sound casual. “It started with just one, but [...]
Meenakshi Mehta, Principal of Gyananda School, Dehradun, has initiated an interesting programme called ‘Be the Change’ in her school, and we were invited. Last Friday, 15 kids from Karuna Vihar [...]
Forty years ago, Ravi and I got married on Mother’s Day. It was a magical celebration, literally uniting East with West (I enacted it by changing from my white gown to a red sari and back [...]
Going to college in America means you are definitely going to have a roommate. And your room will be small. The room Melanie and I shared was about 9′ x 12′. We opted for bunkbeds to [...]
Sign language is such a beautiful way to communicate. Abstract thoughts and words transform themselves into something visual and concrete and meanings we hadn’t appreciated suddenly emerge. [...]
This is a story about a squeaky gate. Every day I walk back and forth to my office at least four times. I go in to work in the morning, I go home for lunch, I go back to the office in the [...]
Everybody is important and everybody has a name. Ourselves, of course. So obvious. We all know our own names and it’s hard to imagine that others can forget them. Especially if that other [...]