Little Things Mean A Lot
Every time we get a big grant, I go looking for small donors to thank. It just happened. We have gotten a grant so large I can’t find enough zeros to tell you about it. The truth is, I [...]
Invitations to Life
I keep getting invited to weddings. Voluntary organisations are famous for first jobs and volunteer opportunities, which is to say we have a lot of young people around all the time. Young people [...]
Children First
“Children First” is a truism – one of those phrases we all believe in and think we actually practice. Coupled with women (as in “Women and Children First”) it was [...]
Living Inside The Mistake, Part 2
“When you’re blind, you just can’t assume anything,” he said. “But the problem is you get a picture in your mind, and if you get it wrong, you just live inside the mistake.” I wrote a post a few [...]
Mahi lives in your house
Mahi, age four, fell into an open borewell near Manesar on June 20th. 86 hours later, after protracted and heroic efforts by an Army rescue team, her body was pulled out and the child was [...]
A birth, a death, a picnic . . .
My dearest, oldest, bestest friend (outside of my family) was born on June 21st in 1957. We didn’t meet until ten years later and our friendship did not get off to a flying start. She was [...]
We Spell Paradise: K-A-L-H-A-N
Drs Jiten and Indu Kalhan have been friends of the Foundation for as long as we have existed. It was through them that Moy Moy came into our lives and for that alone we owe them a lifetime of [...]
Anu Aga, Kiran Datar, Ravi Chopra and Building the Nation
It turns out that countries are built by ordinary people, emboldened by, and on fire with, extraordinary ideas. Ideas like integrity, justice and dignity. People like Anu Aga, Kiran Datar and [...]
Dreaming of a Miracle
Miracle Not the one who takes up his bed and walks But the ones who have known him all along And carry him in — Their shoulders numb, the ache and stoop deeplocked In their backs, the stretcher [...]
