Jo’s Blog

This evening, I spoke with my husband on the phone. We had been chatting for a few minutes before he said “I’ve got good company here in the compartment.” Up until that moment, I had forgotten that he was on a train, heading to [...]

Everywhere I go, I hear the same thing: “We can’t find staff. Where are all the good people, the qualified people, the people who can write, think creatively, analyze?” It’s the same all over the country – at least [...]

A few nights ago, I met an old friend in a coffee shop in New Delhi. Stephane is a French architect, living and working in India for the past 15 years. “It’s really strange in India right now, don’t you find?” he asked me. “I’ve never seen it [...]

The Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK: National Child Health Program) had to begin somewhere. Someone had to come up with it; someone had to have had a dream – a vision of a national program which would screen every single child in [...]

New family  in Gubbara today. Dad carrying a baby – baby about 18 months; Mom toting a bag of his gear. A little old for such a small child? Maybe the grandparents? Dad got right down to business. “This is my 3rd child like [...]

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 ourselves hard questions, challenge our own assumptions [...]

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? I am reading “Far From The Tree” by Andrew Solomon and it is a slow, painful process which is leaving me alternately breathless and buoyant. I feel as if I have been put through a [...]