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 21:Born with clubfoot (congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes) in the small town of Viramgaon, 60 kilometres from Ahmedabad, Bhupesh Modi does not know what it is to walk without a limp. The handicap may have [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, August 3:Unlike many other children who are forced to fend for themselves or left to die, an infant found a poor, haggard woman and a community of autorickshaw drivers rallying to take care for her. For four days before the police and NGOs came to take away the baby, the poor woman [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 28: TULSI Ram (15) unscrews a stabilizer and removes the battery, the circuit board from its plastic casing. His brother, Gehri Lal (12), uses hammer, chisel, his bare hands and teeth to disassemble clumps of copper wiring from a brass frame. Tulsi and Gehri are kabadiwallahs, who disassemble electrical goods and sell them [...]
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 01:“I channeled all my energies into getting the gold medal of my IIM-A batch in 1989. When I got it though, I realized it had not been worth the effort,” said Sachit Jain, the CEO of the Vardhman group, India’s largest integrated textile producer. Sachit Jain’s personal and professional journey began [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, June 27: Ahmedabad is a strictly weekend shopping city. On Saturdays and Sundays, youngsters and families descend in full force and invade malls and multiplexes of the city. Along with them come their two wheelers and cars, which create major traffic crises in and around shopping malls. Most shopping complexes and multiplexes [...]
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 12:AS the world readies to observe Blood Donor’s Day on June 14, blood banks in the city are crying themselves hoarse over shortage of blood in the city. They say that the difference between the amount of blood donated and the rising demand for blood in hospitals in the city, keeps [...]