Mr Minoo Homi Batlivala

TV9 featured our project on their programme Shaka 9 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.412477082181109.1073741828.236514753110677&type=1links:1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wy6Mbw0olw2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsVrjBwrNAY3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFMH_S-B4hU http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=decomposition+project+in+ban…

In my previous post I asked the question if “anything can be done at all” to improve local governance. And this post is provides a seed for thought. In various email exchanges and wanderings in the blogosphere I was made aware of this effort driven by concerned citizens of Mumbai – www.votemumbai.org (Thanks to Prakash…

For the first five years of my life I was surrounded by women. My grandmother, spinster aunts, my mother and sister were all the family I knew, except of course for my mother’s elder sister Maggie and her children. At that time in Ahmedabad, I was put in the Kindergarten at Mount Carmel’s School where…

Doordarshan has done a profile on Ferdinand Rodricks who was commended for his work with the disabled at BondOfBoys2012 which will be on TV on DD Sahayadhri on the 23rd Feb at 08.00am and also at 09.00pm. Do view if you get a chance and tell other Stanislites to watch.

Ever hear of the Binaca Hit Parade. No! Neither did I, until a kind adopted Uncle living on Bazaar Road just behind the Boarders Dormitories decided that the least he could do was to play that hit parade real loud for us boarders. And so, we learnt about Frank Sinatra, Pat Boone, Jim Reeves, Cliff…