Simple Human Kindness
When I was a kid, there was an older boy in our neighborhood whom we called “Pinhead.” I didn’t know him at all but, like everyone else, I thought it was clever to speak of him [...]
In the beginning was the Word . . .
Incredible, heart-stopping and stunning though it sounds, we lost two children this week at the Latika Roy Foundation. I am writing here to try and make some kind of sense of two facts which [...]
The Inner Lives of Children
Yesterday morning, 4-year old Lakshi woke early. The sun was streaming into the room she shares with her parents and older brother and a photo I had taken of them three years earlier – [...]
A Walking, Talking Festival
“The house is so quiet,” Sarita said sadly, as I returned from the airport where I had gone to see Nutan off. We had looked forward to her visit for months and now – in a flash [...]
Loving Hands At Home
People in wheelchairs are acutely conscious of their elbows. Those who push them from one room to another should be too. Sadly, they aren’t. So bruises, bumps and scrapes are pretty [...]
Say Goodbye To All That You Are Losing
Last night, a dear friend told me about her mother-in-law’s desperate sadness at her increasing frailties. 87, mind sharp and focused, her body nonetheless betrays her. She cannot sleep at [...]
A Valiant Woman
95 year old women form their own special strata in the Annals of the Indomitable. Not many of us make it to this level. Those who do command respect and warrant further study: How do they do it? [...]
Planning for the most vulnerable: a vision for a new life
Here’s what we believe: if you plan for the most vulnerable, the world works better for everyone. Organize a busy street so a deaf child with a physical disability can cross it safely and [...]
A Primer for Standing Up and Saying No
Women’s Web – an amazing online women’s community – is asking its readers to write about standing up and speaking out. The violent attack on that young woman in Guwahati [...]
