‘1411 tigers left in India. Do something about it’. I have been reading these lines and hearing about it for quite a while now. Though every time I hear or read about it, I feel helpless for not being able to do anything constructive about it. I mean, I could not think of anything that…

I don’t how? I don’t know when?

But I will….I will beat it. She had said smiling

While the others had been silent on the cold foggy morning

The girl was in her teens…

Standing amongst a group of street urchins

Dirty hands, oversized clothes

Determined smile to match her eyes

Study project in the area was over

Conclusions reached Recommendations given

Happily we were returning

This was…

As I rack my brains to find out what have I done recently to bring out someone's smile , not a polite and superficial one but a heart warming and a genuine widening of one's mouth - I come to the conclusion, Zilch. I have to give up because beside my son who smiles anyways....for the smallest of things I say....I haven't really been able to get any smiles from anyone - (I mean 'really from the heart' one). I realise that I must be quite poor (and also quite self engrossed) to be…