Ram Chandra is a shepherd. It’s not often we run into shepherds these days, so this feels like an occasion. I’ve seen him on our streets for years, but it wasn’t till recently that I actually stopped to converse with him. I [...]

Moy Moy is so much a part of our lives we sometimes forget that’s not true for everyone else. So here’s her story once again: the story of Moy Moy, the reason for and the inspiration of much of the work of the Latika Roy Foundation. [...]

One very hot summer afternoon, my mother stood at our kitchen window looking out at the house next door. Our neighbours were Portuguese immigrants – from the “old country”. Their house was kept dark all the time and the [...]

We talk about inclusion all the time. It’s a concept, it’s an issue, it’s a right, it’s an imperative. At Latika Vihar, it’s just the way it is. That means it may be funny and endearing (that’s what we hope) [...]

I took this photo when I was in Florida in 2008, just after my mother’s death. My sister, my father and I had gone down there to meet Mom’s twin sister, who was too ill to make it to Massachusetts for the funeral. Now she is gone [...]

Matthew, who has a mental handicap, has five brothers and sisters. The other children get quite a few treats because of him through gestures of kindness offered by local organizations. A free afternoon at the fair, for example, or tickets to the [...]

A Mandate and A Budget. What could be better? We needed toys and books for Gubbara and we had money to burn. I canvassed my friends for suggestions of where to buy what, enlisted Kavita Arora from Children First and Deepa Bhushan from my ancient [...]