Last month I posted a story about a girl named Gia. This one is about her little brother, Kartik. Gia’s persistent questions about Moy Moy’s inability to speak turned out to be because her own brother had the same problem. When I [...]

Four years ago, we got a big grant to set up a Resource Centre for People with Special Needs. Part of the funding included rent for a new building and we lost no time in finding a fancy, spacious one – right next door to my house, as it [...]

Having two young children living upstairs is a pure and simple delight. Vijay and Lakshmi, Vikram’s kids, are 6 and 3 and one way and another they are in our house a good part of every day. Vijay, a serious young scholar, comes for his [...]

Most days when I walk listening to my Ipod, I choose the very funny NPR News Quiz show: “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” or upbeat quick music to inspire an equally quick pace. But sometimes, I like to surprise myself with something [...]

There are these funny little moments when you realize that even though you think you know what your mother tongue is, you don’t. When you realize you’ve been speaking another language for so long that its eccentricities have crept [...]

How often are our prayers like these? All neatly spelled out, in a range of primary colors, and then left to flutter gaily and bravely on the prevailing winds? I love the spirit of these prayers, the sweet abandon, the clean and simple faith [...]

Maybe we’re just a bit mean. But when a group of wealthy, entitled students came to us for a 3-day workshop to help them understand what it is like to have a disability, we couldn’t resist actually showing them. They were late. By an [...]