Bhavna Botta, a young serial entrepreneur with cerebral palsy, had her dream project, Saahaagika, an exclusive boutique for ahimsa silk, washed away in the recent rains and floods in Chennai. Broken but not beaten, she looks for strength, motivation…
and other annoying questions that parents of children with disabilities do not want to hear. Ruchika Sethi Takkar, a mother who is raising a daughter with multiple challenges, helps you out by sharing the 13 most awkward questions that she has…
Like any young woman, Choo Peck See, 45, had dreamed of meeting the right person someday, settling down and starting a family of her own. It was a dream come true when she was called up to receive a kidney transplant and have a shot at a…
WORLD HEART DAY
To raise awareness about cardiovascular diseases, Mr. KC Patel, 75, shares his experience. Despite a fairly active lifestyle for most of his life, he was referred for emergency quadruple coronary artery by-pass (CABG) surgery for 90…
Mr. Shankhadeep Mitra, 40 finds it difficult to communicate with his mother but the mother struggling with Alzheimer’s is still happy to see her son.
When was your mother diagnosed and what were the early symptoms?
2014 was the year when…
Sudha, 68 has a full time job being a caregiver to her husband who has Alzheimer’s. Not only does she have to be fully alert all the time, she has also learnt to be patient and understanding over time.
When was your husband diagnosed with…
World Suicide Prevention Week 2016
A suicide story has various dimensions: there are those who think of committing it all the time, there are those who have tried and survived, and then there are those who have gone ahead and taken their own lives,…
Five failed relationships and an elaborate suicide plan later, Thomas Heng finds out that life is worth living after all! Clinical Depression led him to almost jump off a building, further thoughts of which were thwarted by prolonged counselling…
World Suicide Prevention Day 2016
Yuna Angell realises, after several attempts at suicide, that life is too sacred to be lost like this. She advises people with suicidal tendencies to reach out for help in times of desperation, because everyone…
