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 [...]
Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, October 10 WITH Ahmedabad going mall-a-mall, retail mania seems to have gripped Navratri shoppers, too. More and more women are preferring to walk into well-lit, concept stores to buy chaniya cholis than jostling with the junta at Law Garden, which until now had been the most preferred place for Navratri shopping. A [...]
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 23:THE traveller for whom the Ahmedabad International Airport is a gateway to the State — the concept of ‘Nirmal Gujarat’ has been reduced to an ugly joke. The airport’s infrastructure has barely kept pace with the ever-increasing number of airlines fighting for airspace over city skies. The irony: Ten years ago, [...]
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 24: The past five years have seen good rains in the state but not good enough in terms of groundwater replenishment. The rate at which groundwater is being replenished is much slower than the rate at which water is being consumed in most parts of the state. The latest report, which [...]
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 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 [...]