Bob Hope once said: A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. I always thought – silly me – that our bank would be different. The Latika Roy Foundation has held an account in the Indian [...]

No one likes a guest who criticizes her hosts, even if she has been around for over 30 years. So I begin not with criticism but with praise and gratitude. Our three children were brought up here in India by two fairly relaxed parents who [...]

Not everybody can read. And certainly not everybody can read English. I was standing outside Gubbara one morning when a woman came by holding a baby (with Down Syndrome) in her arm and a scrap of paper in her free hand. “Where is [...]

Launching a website is like delivering a baby. Let me introduce you to my newest addition:   Every organisation has a website. No big deal. You hire a guy. You assign the task of assembling text and photos to one of the young, hep kids. [...]