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hiv, aids, and kids

This is an account of my visit to Freedom Foundation, an organisation in Secunderabad, where HIV patients and drug addicts are taken care of. Through talks with Jaya Singh, the project-coordinator, I could learn...

Adoption: The Answers (iv) 8

Adoption: The Answers (iv)

Back in Hyderabad, I decided to take a share of what the adoption agency here has to tell me about the procedures. Quite interstingly, Andhra Pradesh (AP) is the only state that has banned any...

14 years of maun 7

14 years of maun

 … why? What does he feel? Does he talk in sleep? Several questions popped up in my mind.. but I couldn’t ask him! maun ~ silence September 2005, Kochi

onam with nature 19

onam with nature

Oru ettukaliyude onappookkalam.. a spider’s web design (!!) evoking memories of the long lost Onam days I used to celebrate at home in Kerala. Photograph taken while I was at home during last Onam....

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Adoption: The Answers (iii)

It was time for me to be homebound. Leaving Bangalore was with mixed emotions and there was one thing I wanted to do- visit the orphanage once again, see the kids there and interact...