One of the most important things organizations like ours have to do is to review our own work – critically, dispassionately and objectively. We have to analyze what we are doing, ask [...]

Sakshi and Moy Moy. Those two girls – young women now – are inextricably linked with the history of the Foundation. They were the first students at Karuna Vihar, the only ones who [...]

Ajay Mehrotra is an optician and audiologist who runs a thriving business (Eye and Ear Care Centre) in the heart of Dehradun. In an earlier post, I described how we went to him for a hearing aid [...]

Lots of organizations construct their own buildings. They buy a piece of land, they raise the money they need and they get right to it. Not us. We bought our land nearly ten years ago. Then we [...]

Our pilot project to follow up on children whom we assessed at Gubbara is nearing completion. A vital part of the program is training a group of ASHA workers who in turn are training the ASHAs [...]

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are women selected by their own community to be trained and supported to function in their villages to improve the community’s general health. There is [...]

What a pleasure, what a joy to announce the great news that our own Sumita Nanda has been appointed Director, Human Resources at the Latika Roy Foundation. Everyone who has ever come in to the [...]

We got lucky yesterday. And by “we”, I mean the country. Keshav Desiraju has been appointed Health Secretary, Government of India. I’ve heard him described as a visionary, a [...]

My friend Peter Phun is a friend I’ve never met. Several years ago, I thought I had lost all the photos I took at my niece’s wedding. I posted my anguish on an online forum and he [...]

While everyone else was busy organising melas and eating golgappas, bhel puri and cake, the adults at the College for Vocational Training were concentrating on the bottom line. Tirelessly, they [...]