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INDIA | Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [838] | Comments [3]
We went and said goodbye to Ankita today. It was, as many of you encouraged it would be, a really great experience. Ankita was in fine form. We moved to a hotel closer to the orphanage for the last couple of days in Delhi. We were sick of the noise of ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, dehli, hotels
INDIA | Friday, 25 Jul 2008 | Views [1059] | Comments [8]
Something ordinary can be so very complicated. Sister Anthea is there, Shayne, Neelu. We've not been at the orphanage long and we are ready to have a chat about the delay in the process of Ankita's court case when I notice two nuns standing at the ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, delhi, india, missionaries of charity
INDIA | Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 | Views [1039] | Comments [2]
The heat was overwhelming as we made our way to the Patna Shishu Bhavan. It took the auto-rickshaw driver a couple of attempts to find his way there. We didn't take an air-conditioned car because the streets are small in the old city and there are few ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, mother teresa, patna
INDIA | Monday, 21 Jul 2008 | Views [1152] | Comments [9]
I would have posted this sooner but I have lost the flow in the past couple of days. Things that can hurt. Being told that your adoption case has been adjourned is at the top of my list of life pains. Sure there was no intention on the part of the ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, delhi, the hague convention
INDIA | Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 | Views [842] | Comments [6]
We are at the Timber Trails resort, high up in the Mountains outside of Chandigarh. The resort looks down onto all of the surrounding hills. A river snakes through the steep valleys to the north and to the west there are terraces stepping down the steep ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, chandigarh, delhi courts
INDIA | Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 | Views [850] | Comments [1]
Waiting: and now the story has a true beginning. Ranchi. The sound,the presence of children waiting in the rows of cots painted blue.
I have seen Ankita. I can say that. But a photograph has no scent. It doesn't let your eye glide across the face ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, india. ranchi
INDIA | Friday, 11 Jul 2008 | Views [1459] | Comments [7]
Ranchi No, Ranchi Yes Ranchi is the capital of Jharkand state. It used to be of Bihar state until, I think, about a decade ago. The locals rebelled against the Bihar state government and got their own little place in India. ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, hotels, india, indian traffic, ranchi
INDIA | Friday, 11 Jul 2008 | Views [2507] | Comments [2]
The Remarkable Gautam Lewis Note of apology: while I am sure this is mostly true and correct - the dates are going to be a bit wrong and I will give Gautam the right to call me a tosser etc ... Gautam contracts polio ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, calcutta, gautam lewis, kolkata, missionaries of charity, polio awareness
INDIA | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [1024] | Comments [10]
On decent into Kolkata I had moment of pure fear. It has never happened to me before - this kind of fear. Just imagine that the plane went into an uncontrollable spin and there, in the middle of an ordinary July night a freak plane crash claims the ... Read more >
Tags: adoption, india, kolkata
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