Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 26: Yogesh Mer’s (13) face lights up as Amardeep Rana (16) hands him a shining black toy radio. Yogesh, a patient in the paediatric ward of M P Shah Cancer Hospital, was paralysed 25 days ago. Amardeep (16) visited Yogesh in the antiseptic ward on Saturday afternoon and asked him if [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 24: THE crusading environmental activist from the city, Mahesh Pandya, is back from ‘Cut the Carbon’ march being held in the United Kingdom. Kicked off on July 14, the march will culminate in London on October 2 after covering 1,000 miles across the UK. The march aims to highlight the devastating [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 27: On the eve of his 89th birthday, Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and an anti-apartheid activist, announced the formation of The Elders — a club of world leaders to discuss ways to tackle problems plaguing the world. Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), is one [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 23: For those of us who have grown up hearing the soulful strains of “Sabarmati ke sant tu ne kar diya kamaal”, the Sabarmati river still holds a special place. But what many don’t know is that the river on whose banks Gandhi set up his Ashram has turned into one [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 25:UNTIL five years ago, the women of Juhapura had not ventured beyond the confines of their small neighbourhood. The riots of 2002, however, changed everything. As the riots left most male members of the area jobless, 20 women began a savings group called Parwaaz. With children to feed and rents to [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, June 10:With Ganesh festival just two months away, idol makers of Gulbai Tekra in Gujarat are busy catering to orders for idols from as far as Hyderabad and Pune. The environmentalists, meanwhile, are crying hoarse over the violation of guidelines issued by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). This year too, the [...]