November 23, 2017
I started posting regularly on Instagram about 11 months ago. I enjoy sharing my travel tales – not because I love to brag and mark the far-flung places I have set foot on but because I like sharing my thoughts and telling stories in my unique (Uma) way.
Somehow, every photo in my archive seems .
January 17, 2016
I googled the phrase ‘celebration of diversity’ with a few key word variations. I learnt that the UN has sanctioned a day to celebrate and honor the world’s cultural diversity. I was impressed with the goals and ambitions set out by this great organization but found that the magnitude.
Read ArticleSeptember 5, 2014
In 1930 my great grand mother who had not even received elementary education used her savings to found a school in her village, in South India. She wanted to make primary education free and accessible to children, especially for the economically backward groups.
Read ArticleSeptember 19, 2013
I have read a fair share of farmyard stories, both as a child and as a parent. As a young child exploring the world through books, I loved farmyard stories the most of all – the farmer, the animals, their young ones, the green green grass and the unhurried pace of life depicted in each story.
Read ArticleSeptember 9, 2010
Karma Kalender, a calendar project, is a private initiative to support Doctors for Developing Countries/Ärtze die Dritte Welt – an international medical humanitarian organization that sends doctors to projects in the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nicaragua.If you, your partner/friends/colleagues are evaluating calendars for 2011.
Read ArticleSeptember 4, 2010
Nowadays the front-runners in the list of self descriptive adjectives seem to be ‘international’ and ‘global’. Or at least that’s what I hear frequently around where I live. In a world of global inter dependencies and diverse work environments, it is hardly a wonder that these same adjectives which were once used only by relief agencies.
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