I’m going to tell you a little story that I heard about a week and a half ago. A story of a mother, just like mine and your’s. This summer of 2018, I’ve joined an organisation called HelpAge India, working to empower the disadvantaged elderly. On the very first day of my internship, I thought to myself of how …Read More

Reading about the upcoming Punjabi movie “Asees” that celebrates motherhood, I came across an interesting line, “Maa, je tu mitti hai, te main tere charanan di dhul haan” (Mother, if you are like the earth, I am akin to its mere dust). The death of actress Geeta Kapoor of film “Pakeezah” fame, in an…Read More

"My children are settled and working in good companies. They left me because they are busy with their lives. I cannot digest the fact that my closest sister passed away. I feel that I'm completely alone now," says 80-year-ol, Parukutty (80), an inmate of the destitute ward of Ernakulam General Hospital, in tears when…Read More