‘Without saying a word, Dev can speak volumes about love and goodness’ Children are truth personified, feels Parul Kala as she talks about Dev, her son with Down's syndrome.
Last year I had to fill out in Dev’s school notebook " what I…
Ritu Vyas thinks children with Down's Syndrome are no different from others. All they need is patience and understanding for their talents to flourish
D is 11 years old. When he was around 7, his parents noticed he is attracted to…
By Preeti Arora, a mother of a child with Down's Syndrome
My daughter Amber is all of 9 years now and she attends the Navjyoti Special School in Vasant Kunj, Delhi. When she was born under C-section and it dawned on us that she had Down's…
Arun M Sivakrishna's father did not smoke or drink, nor did he chew tobacco. He still got oral cancer. Arun shares a poem from his collection "Songs of a Solitary Tree"
My dad had oral cancer as well other ailments related to heart conditions and…
By Vedika Aum, an ongoing survivor of depression. The image is of a sketch by Vedika depicting bursting forth through the darkness
I live I laugh I create I think I learn
...and I question
I meet silence
I question again and am told to be…
Breaking bad news to patients can be daunting and difficult, especially for caregivers. Maya Ramachandran narrates her experience when she and her husband were caught in such a catch-22 situation.
My husband’s close relative was…
By Geetha Paniker, a survivor of triple negative cancer with double mastectomy. A believer of being positive against all odds who pens, all that the mind can reason with the heart. A teacher, turned home maker, she loves …
A poem on incarceration by Jhilmil Breckenridge
If you stare out of a barred window across
A bleak garden some September morning
If the neem tree in the garden reminds you of home
Vast, old, timeless
If you remember playing under a neem tree…
Carol D’Souza, a consulting psychologist, recounts her mother’s advancing dementia and how she and her family made peace with the agonizing decision to put her in a care home.
Putting my mother in a Home was one of the most difficult decisions…
