Don’t miss the expression on this child’s face: it’s one of rapt attention. she’s waiting for the next thing to happen and she is focused and fully present. It’s [...]

Sometimes kids are sad. We can’t solve all their hurts and worries all the time, much as we might want to. Sometimes we just need to let them feel the way they do and be there for them in [...]

Once upon a time, we had a genius of a speech therapist working with us. Her name was Aparna and though she finally moved back home to Pune after five years in the Foundation, her fame lives on [...]

Look at them! Anshi and Eesha, two of the old hands at Ummeed’s EIC – Then and Now. I met both these little girls over a year ago on my last visit to the centre. I was amazed by how [...]

For a taste of sheer joy, head on over to the Early Intervention Centre at Ummeed in Mumbai. I spent a morning there yesterday and it set me up for the week. I literally couldn’t stop [...]

One of the most wonderful things about traveling for work is the chance it affords to reconnect with old friends. Two of my very favorite people in Mumbai are Kabir and Karun, Vibha [...]

Brother Dominic Jacob is the headmaster of St George’s School in Mussoorie. But before that, he had the same job at St Joseph’s Academy here in Dehradun. It was at his request that we [...]

Manju and I just got back from doing a workshop in Delhi for a group of teachers who have just been recruited for a school about to open – it’s called Step by Step and it is to be a [...]