How often does it happen that you know very little about the life journey of someone you have been working with for many years? About their childhood, parents, school days, challenges, joyful moments and more…? When you know more about a person’s journey, how does that change your relation with
A couple of days back, last Thursday, I was processing a few things from the previous evening, added by more incidents from that morning at Dongri, which were triggering me internally. However, given my nature, I go into a silence mode, into a shell, while dealing with things that seem
Yesterday morning, we conducted a session on road signs with a small demo setup. As we discussed each road sign, we also asked the kids questions on their life in connection to the sign in front of them. For example, for the child talking about a ‘speed breaker’, we asked
A couple of weeks back, a small encounter brought a smile to my face and left me thinking that day about innate human qualities and in fact for a couple of days after. One of the kids at the Home is a special child, with some mental disability. However, he
One of the older kids, who has been at the home for about 3 years now, was having a conversation with a coworker, let’s call him Aniket sir (pseudo name), from another NGO. As they were talking, he noticed that the backpack which Aniket sir was carrying was torn and
One day, while returning from the Children’s Home, I was waiting at the bus stop. As I was standing there, I noticed a bike with a couple and their son, a small boy, sitting in the middle. The mother got down from the back, went to a roadside cart, bought
Recently, one of the kids approached me with a pencil and paper as I was standing at the door of the classroom and said “please can you teach me how to write my name in English?” So I wrote his name and handed it back to him. Soon, he came
A few days back, I was sitting in the classroom with many kids, doing their own thing in small groups while the teacher was busy with his work. I did not have anything planned during that time and so I was just sitting with 4-5 boys and listening to their