Mother and Daughter
Here’s Vikram’s wife, Sarita and their daughter Lakshmi, just to round out the story. Lakshmi is the brightest-eyed baby I’ve seen in a long time, with an enchanting smile you would do anything to get a glimpse of. I’ve been trying to capture it on camera for weeks now, but she’s a bit […]
Father and Son
Doesn’t this say it all? The love between a father and a son, the pride and joy each finds in the other. . . This is Vikram and his son Vijay. Vikram works at PSI and lives in a flat at our place.With our own children all grown, what a delight it is to have […]
Nuns at the Window
What a long time since I’ve been here! It’s been a busy week, with little time for photography, for writing or even for thinking. I went to Mussoorie on Sunday to do a workshop for a group of principals from Catholic schools all over the state. Over fifty people came from Saharanpur, Roorkee, Vikas Nagar, […]
Time with A Friend
Do you ever get the feeling that your life is a bit out of balance? That all you are thinking or talking about is work? I do. Sometimes I find I can’t have even a five-minute conversation without bringing up disability or funding or a proposal. I go to a party and realize I have […]
Chief Secretary S K Das
I am not a big fan of the government. Although I am normally a patient person, I find the bureaucracy and torpor of most government offices too frustrating to deal with. And yet, I recognize the need to work at that level, both because the government is the only institution with the infrastructure to do […]
Goodbye to our Darlings
Farewells! It is always so difficult to do them, especially when there is more than one person leaving. This time, there were five! Each one of these women has a different story in the Foundation; each one deserves a party all to herself. But time is limited for everyone and we can’t always do public […]
Sermons in Stones
Patience Taught By Nature ‘O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’ And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds Serenely live while we are keeping strife With Heaven’s true […]
Unobtrusive
It’s difficult not to be noticed in a wheelchair. Moy Moy and all of us love her chair, and are grateful for the way it lets her get around and be part of everything we do. But unobtrusive it ain’t. That means we are a production wherever we go. And how we feel about it […]
Monsters
We had a ball when Vinod Iyengar, an advisor to the Satyam Foundation, came to visit last week. Vinod and I were on the assessment team for the NGO of the Year award and we had so much fun traveling together to visit different voluntary organisations I asked him to come to Dehradun and visit […]
Due Diligence
The Fundraising course I took in Delhi last year catapulted me into some very interesting company. Resource Alliance, the organisation that ran the course, also gives an award, in partnership with the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation,to the NGO of the Year. As part of that, I was asked to be an assessor for organisations […]