The Most Beautiful Church In the World
I’ve never seen a church like Our Lady of Malibu. Its open spaces, full of light, seem like a vision of heaven. Everything about it is beautiful, simple and clear. Fr Bill, the pastor, has invited me to come and speak twice now, and it has been a marvelous experience both times. The people of […]
Beautiful People
These are my friends Lizzy Bentley and Arge O’Neil, the people responsible for my fund raising forays in Malibu Beach, along with their two beautiful sons Lucan (sipping from his fancy water bottle) and Isaiah (gravely reading from the latest issue of Highlights). Lizzy came to India in 1987 where she worked with SEWA (Self-Employed […]
The Parents
The children are the future, but in the context of eternity, so are the parents! I return to my home in America as often as I can to be with Mom and Dad because few things in life give me as much happiness, few things in life are as simple or as easy to do. […]
Long Time!
Hello everyone! Just a quick note to let you know why I have been so silent. I am in the US visiting with my parents (as well as with Anand and Cathleen, my six brothers and sisters, rafts of nieces and nephews and many wonderful friends!). The problem is the internet! I have finally borrowed […]
Kanwarjit Chawla: Chance Encounter on a Railway Platform
Kanwarjit Chawla is one of our family’s oldest and dearest friends. He is Moy Moy’s Godfather and has been an adviser to the Foundation since the day we started. Yesterday, I took the train from Dehradun to Delhi – I was just about to board when I saw Dr K coming down the platform, looking […]
The Little Schemer
Now does this look like a young lady so sick her mother had to postpone her trip to America? All of last week Moy Moy kept me in a state of anxiety. She had started having a new type of seizure, and was sleeping massively: up to 20 hours a day. Sebastian made frequent house […]
Her Eyes Are Watching God
When I was in college, I took a literature course in the Afro-American Studies department. One of the books on our recommended list I never got around to reading but always remembered because the title was so poignant and haunting: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. This picture of Moy Moy brought […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Net
Last week I read an article in The Hindu which speculated about what might happen if companies banned email during office hours. According to researchers, productivity actually decreases with too much use of the internet, and particularly with too much emailing. I thought about it, laughed at the idea of giving it up and went […]