Jo’s Blog

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 [...]

“So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.”  ― Seamus Heaney The Delhi gang rapes sickened me physically. For days and weeks I [...]

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 turned up on opening day, though we had gone into the [...]

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, died too soon. I had always been sure I would meet him one day. He was only 74. I thought there was plenty of time. I thought he still had years and years ahead of him, years rolling out like fields and peat [...]

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 started thinking and re-thinking. We forgot we owned [...]

India wasn’t supposed to be like this. The dream this country’s founding mothers and fathers had was of a free, vibrant nation; a secular place where people could prosper by the work of their own hands; where traditional knowledge [...]