Deaf people have it hard in India. Although Sign is a recognized language and an effective way for the deaf to communicate, the accepted wisdom here is that they should just learn how to speak. [...]

I always thought the Latika Roy Foundation‘s child protection policy covered pretty much everything. Under it, all violence  – verbal or physical – is forbidden. Consequences [...]

Children are curious by nature. It’s how they are wired. How else do they explore the world and figure out how it works? So beyond basic safety precautions (don’t explore nitric acid, [...]

Anyone who knows the history of the Latika Roy Foundation knows about Paula. In those early, early days, when all we knew was that we wanted to start a school for Moy Moy, we went in search of [...]

When it became clear that my mother-in-law was going to die last month, family gathered from around the world to say their last goodbyes. Mummy died just weeks short of her 100th birthday. It was [...]

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. ~ Thomas Merton It’s hard to improve when everyone keeps telling you how great you already are. Walk around with a disability and [...]

I guess we all have a litmus test – a secret standard by which we measure (even judge) others. The veteran may wonder how that young guy – so macho and cocky – would behave in [...]

Coming around the corner to my home the other day (and imagine! I had my camera out and ready), I spotted these two little girls busy at work plucking flowers from the bush that hangs over our [...]

Teach for India (TFI) is one of the great agents of social change in this country. Not only is it transforming the lives of its children, one individual student at a time, it is also transforming [...]

Young kids are the ones to watch nowadays. When Shaurya, age 14, or possibly 16, offered to do a film for us, we leaped. He arrived with an I-phone and a tripod and suddenly it was “lights, [...]