Shanno was murdered by her own teacher in a school in Delhi in 2011. Unable to answer a teacher’s question, she was forced to squat, doubled over, in the hot sun while the teacher piled [...]

It took a homecoming 28 years ago to realise that the spirit in which a gift is given is more important than the gift itself. That spirit is very much alive today in India… I grew up in America [...]

I have always been a strong advocate of adoption. It is a family tradition: my parents adopted my sister, my husband and I adopted our youngest, my sister and her husband adopted their little [...]

For the past 25 years, I have dreamed that one day I would convince Charlie King to come to India and that I would find the money to make it possible. Charlie is a folk-singer and a social change [...]

On Monday morning we held a fire drill at our school in Dehradun for children with mental and physical disabilities. Forty-five students, many in wheelchairs, calipers and walkers, all with [...]

Feeding tubes rule. My daughter has had one in for six months now. She has gained nearly twenty pounds since the surgery and she looks like a whole new girl. Before she got it, it took us up to [...]

Visiting the Early Intervention Center for the first time, I did not know what to expect. I knew that the Early Intervention Center is for young children with multiple disabilities and that the [...]

One of my favorite Dorothy Day stories is the one about the diamond ring a wealthy admirer donated to the Catholic Worker. Everyone was curious to see what Dorothy would do with it and were [...]

What is all the fuss about Catholic Bishops refusing communion to pro-choice politicians? Controlling access to Jesus Christ has been a security nightmare since the day he first announced his [...]

I have been taking photographs for most of my adult life. With no technical knowledge of F-stops or apertures or how to work with light and shadow, I have still stumbled into taking some fine [...]