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If poverty has a colour, it’s blue –
- and if poverty is a fabric, it’s plastic. I’ve had a lot of emails and texts over the last few weeks, asking for more details of what I’ve been doing in Goa with the good folk from the charity...
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The flip-flops have landed!
Educators’ Trust India have just sent me this photo – isn’t it wonderful? It shows the ETI team distributing the children’s flip-flops which (fellow volunteer) Natasha and I bought a few days before I...
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Merry Christmas from the Gender Blog
… and who better than these beaming faces to wish you all a peaceful and happy festive season? This lovely photo also features on the official Christmas card, which you can view here. (If you want to...
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My bags are packed …
… I’m ready to go. I head back to Mumbai this evening and will spend a few days there, prior to returning to Goa to write and to work with the great people at Educators’ Trust India. I’m “officially”...
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By their advertising shall you know them –
- and this image is on billboards all over Mumbai at the moment. I was struck by the whiteness of the model’s skin (and of that of the baby) until I noticed that all models on all billboards are...
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Happy Valentine’s Day from Goa
Namaste from Goa, where I am back in residence at my usual guest house and writing this on the balcony of my room – this is my view – whilst making plans for how I’ll spend the next three weeks. I...
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Sangeetha’s story
A few days ago, I went over to see the Educators’ Trust team at the Leading Light school in order to update their website. While I was there, as is always the case, I was interrupted frequently,...
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Sangeetha, part two
I’ve just persuaded Sangeetha to let me take her photograph – here she is, second from right, with her 11 year old daughter (with the plaits), a friend and the extremely photogenic Parras!
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Guest post: On the healing power of love
This is a guest post by Dr. Dhiru Mistry, an Indian born British GP who took early retirement from the National Health Service in order to return to India and devote his life and his medical skills to...
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Cleo in Wonderland
Today is my last day in Goa; tomorrow I fly home via Mumbai, after another month in this beautiful, heartbreaking, bewitching, chaotic, colourful, frustrating country. It’s been a busy week, with a...
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