Round Up The Usual Suspects
This morning an elderly neighbor called to ask if I could help her find a new maidservant, someone to wash the floors and do the dishes. The old one, she said, had been stealing from her. A gold chain here, a pair of earrings there. “You [...]
Why My Mother Would Not Have Joined Facebook
After my mother died, my sister Lucy kept discovering interesting things she had left behind. One of the most fascinating was a do-it-yourself autobiography which someone must have given her (it was definitely not something she would have bought [...]
Just Playing?
On this day of turmoil and revenge, I thought it would be nice to remember the joys of childhood and innocence. One of the questions we are so often asked at Latika and Karuna Vihar is “Don’t you ever teach the children? All [...]
We Go To Bed With Corruption and It Joins Us On Our Morning Walk
“Well, who’s behind the anti-corruption bill?” she said. “I have friends in Allahabad who say that Prashant and Shanti Bhushan aren’t quite as clean as they make themselves out to be.” I don’t quite know [...]