He made it!
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Friday, July 30, 2010
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The news is just out: Rajesh, who showed “impeccable behaviour” (come again???) and made rapid academic strides, has finally been admitted in Class 2 for complete education in the language of Shakespeare!
Well done for Rajesh, who has earned his uniform and wears it proudly, and conqueror that he is, strikes a pose bearing the colors of St Mary’s on the terrace of Tara:
(OK, we’ll have to reconsider the size of the shorts!)
Rajesh and the autos
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
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The first auto, bad news for us, is dozing. He pleads a technical failure and goes back to the arms of Morpheus (one should not be allowed to disturb people in the middle of their nap!!!):
The second autowallah, wide awake and good-natured, proposes the fare of 60 rupees. Rajesh manages to get us a discount of 10 rupees:
Election Day
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
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Here are the posters of the campaign:
Tara at the beach
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
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Among other things, they enjoyed seeing the seaside in Kerala, the elephants (a little agitated, surprising as we were expecting a more placid animal, who would have been happy to meet us), a tea plant in Ooty, and ultimate pleasure: flying ("Sir, why is there nothing in the sky, apart from the clouds??"):
Invited to the Jeevan Jyoti Shelter close to Bangalore, Rakesh, Sidhu and our trainee Caroline explain to the staff the secrets of the North-Indian chapatti, but the unflappable didis clearlt seem to prefer their good-old South-Indian chapatti:
And to go on with the North/South cultural technological transfers, our boys take a dance class, given by the girls of the institution. Sidhu is much more at ease than Rakesh, who is intensively wondering what the hell he is doing, sweating blood:
The Computer Room
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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Motivated more than ever, the older children helped the carpenters hoist the spanking-new computer cabinets.
From now on, every Child can play and replay his favourite CD-Rom I Become Kung Fu Master at the Temple of the Dragon, that he finds as fascinating as ever, even after hundreds of viewings, despite the long suffering adult, who has time and again expressed his annoyance regarding the so-called Okinawa synthetic music which illustrates each movement of the virtual karateka wannabe.These days, the computer room hosts a workshop on Photoshop and HTML:
The computer room of Tara is sponsored by Main Tendue and Delhi Footlights.
Reunion
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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“I am looking for my brother”, Sidhu told us when he arrived at Tara. We helped him as much as we could but in a country of more than a billion people, how could we find Sidhant? It seemed hopeless. Then, out of the blue, a few days ago, from the NGO Deepalaya, we heard about Sidhant who was alive and well, and in Delhi! Soon the two brothers were face to face. What happened when their eyes met was indescribable...
Life, for them, is now complete. This is their story and it is with their agreement that we are publishing this picture, of their memorable reunion.
Today, Sidhant, is a 20 year old man who just passed his Class 12 exam. Sidhu is not alone in this world anymore. Miracles do happen, and we were happy witnesses to this magical occurrence of life.





