Yesterday morning, 4-year old Lakshi woke early. The sun was streaming into the room she shares with her parents and older brother and a photo I had taken of them three years earlier – framed and mounted on the wall of their bedroom [...]

“The house is so quiet,” Sarita said sadly, as I returned from the airport where I had gone to see Nutan off. We had looked forward to her visit for months and now – in a flash – it was over. How to describe the [...]

People in wheelchairs are acutely conscious of their elbows. Those who push them from one room to another should be too. Sadly, they aren’t. So bruises, bumps and scrapes are pretty standard stuff. “Watch the elbows,” I say [...]

Last night, a dear friend told me about her mother-in-law’s desperate sadness at her increasing frailties. 87, mind sharp and focused, her body nonetheless betrays her. She cannot sleep at night as she fears losing control of her bladder; [...]

95 year old women form their own special strata in the Annals of the Indomitable. Not many of us make it to this level. Those who do command respect and warrant further study: How do they do it? What is their secret? I’ve got one in my [...]