Half a Century, or Happy Birthday Mom
Moy Moy isn’t so into smiling these days, so I was very pleased to get this half grin from her in honor of my birthday. What a darling she is and what a lucky mom! And yes, she is trying to tell you all to send a donation to Karuna Vihar in honor of […]
Team Green!
I love celebrating St Patrick’s Day in India because it never fails to impress people here that we in the wicked west also have festivals as whimsical and fun as Holi and Basant Panchami. The entire family from Mummy to Moy Moy dresses in green and we eat scones for breakfast (when the kids were […]
Train Bai
Remember Train Bai? The baby born on a moving train a few weeks ago? Her mom went to the loo and gave birth to a daughter so tiny she slipped down the toilet and landed on the tracks below. And survived! This is not Train Bai, but like her, this little girl was born two […]
Three Dazzling Boys (and A Beautiful Mom, too)
Two years ago, Anna Tanvir came to visit Karuna Vihar. Anna is a musician from France (though she has roots in England through her mother, Jill and in India, through her father Habib). She plays the harp and the guitar, she sings like an angel and she is completely enchanting. So I was prepared to […]
Clement J Dowling
My sister called very early this morning to tell me that Uncle Clem had just died. That’s him in the photo on the left – he’s the bald one, the one with the beard is my dad. Uncle Clem was 93 and he and Dad had been best friends for sixty years. Lucy’s voice broke […]
Braille Visiting Cards!
Several years ago, I met my friend Alana Officer, then Director of Handicap International’s India office, for the first time (there always does have to be a first time!). She handed me her visiting card and there, to my amazement, I found her name (I assumed) printed in Braille. “I once gave my card to […]
More on Scroobius Pip
Check this video out if you get a chance: You Shall Always Kill. It’s Scroobius Pip’s litany of commandments on how to think for yourself. It’s also hilarious.
Sroobius Pip Stutters
I heard this great interview on National Public Radio this morning as I was getting Moy Moy ready for school. It was with a British hip-hop singer who, along with his partner/composer Dan Le Sac, has suddenly become wildly popular both in the UK and the US. His lyrics are so interesting, for example, in […]
New Discovery
Check out this website: http://www.muktanganedu.org Muktangan is a great organisation I heard of while in Mumbai. Vibha and the Ummeed team are partnering with them to bring the early intervention concept to the already fabulous pre-school program Muktangan has pioneered in municipal schools in Bombay. I didn’t get a chance to visit them, but have […]
Getting In the Door
The awareness team organized a great workshop on accessibility today and managed to persuade 21 people to attend – 21 very hard to persuade people at that! These were engineers from the PWD, people from the Ministry of Social Welfare and Empowerment, the Mayor’s office, schools, NGOs and our friendly lawyer, Ravi Bhatia. The team […]