Archive for the 'Odes' Category

Dance, drama, hope…

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Pulkit Vasudha , TNN Wrapped in blankets, in Washington DC, almost two million people braved -13 degree celsius to be a part of a historic presidential inauguration. In homes across the nation, people woke up as early as 4 am to catch the action live on TV. At breakfast meetings, viewing parties, and coffee houses, people [...]

Slums razed for beautification, but none to look after the displaced

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, December 9 One fine morning in November 2005, Pathan Shamshad was getting ready to go to work, when he suddenly heard bulldozers thundering through the narrow lanes outside his house. Without any notice, the workforce of the Ahmedabad Urban Development Board (AUDA) had descended in the Bakra Mandi area of Ranip to [...]

Blind and borderless – Tenberken shows the light

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, November 23 Sabriye Tenberken can read and write in the dark. She even teaches her students to do the same. No, Tenberken does not possess miraculous powers, nor does she belong to the world of wizardry. She is blind, but as she says, that doesn’t prevent her from being a visionary.Along with [...]

Colours on Camera

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Captured on camera, the colours of his canvas are raking rave reviews in film festivals from art and cinema connoisseurs. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V), Ahmedabad, Ajay Chaudhary’s abstract scratches and hatches in black, white and shades of grey have carved a niche for themselves in the world of colours. When filmmaker [...]

Only a day’s wages for cop’s bereaved family

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, November 13 If their father had returned home from patrolling on November 8, nine-year-old Kiran and five-year-old Jaydeep would have celebrated Diwali the next day. But that was not to be. Vinay Yadav (32) was shot dead by two miscreants when he was keeping a vigil in the vicinity of LG Hospital. [...]

An exhibition of grit and determination

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, October 21 A Man with amputated arms sits at an easel, dips his paint brush occasionally in a palette and sweeps the canvas with strong stokes, all the while gripping his brush firmly between his teeth. A mentally retarded teenager holds open a file folder with the colours of the Tricolour striped [...]

For poor Muslim students, this school brings ray of light

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Express News Services, Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, June 6:A Philanthropic idea that germinated during the Gujarat riots has now taken shape in the form of a swanky school for the Muslim children in Salam area of the city. Fearing that the children of the community may face discrimination in other schools and could miss out on [...]

Quack’s patients, Suffering in patience

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Adesar (Kutch), October 12 “In this profession, it is not the degrees and the qualifications that matter. What matters is experience,” says Ghanshyam P Gohel, injecting a six month old baby. “Though I did not study beyond the primary school level, I have been the most trusted doctor in all of Rapar for [...]

Emotional Sunita talks of friend, fellow astronaut Kalpana

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, September 25 Sunita Williams could not contain her emotions while speaking of her friend and fellow astronaut, the late Kalpana Chawla, at an event organised at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on Tuesday. “Kalpana was a great friend and also my greatest role model,” said Sunita stifling sobs. “I consider myself [...]