Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday, Tara!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Latika Vihar’s Spring Mela
The mela starts at the gate, where you buy your entry coupon (5 Rupees for adults, 2 for kids), along with your coupons to spend inside. Every stall was sponsored by a different Foundation project, or by parents from Latika Vihar. A whole bus load of kids from Hopetown School came, with a fixed amount […]