Fundraising should be easy. It should be dignified. It should be simple and hassle-free and it should not take a lot of time because those of us who have to do it have a lot of other things to do as well. Like, for example, the work we are [...]

  Here’s the picture I thought I was taking. My three beautiful girls: Moy Moy, her cousin Nisha and their friend Naina. They were returning home from Latika Vihar and I had come, camera in hand, to meet them halfway. I took their [...]

I wish this were a happy story – a story to uplift and inspire. Or at least to amuse and entertain. But it’s not happy at all. It’s sad. And the sadness is deep and eternal, random and entirely unnecessary. It is a sadness [...]

Gujarat is a dry state. The land of Gandhiji cannot abide alcohol. Legally, that is. To no one’s surprise, however, a thriving black market exists and the choices available are far beyond what one can get in Mumbai or Delhi, those fabled [...]