Special Needs

One of the basic nature of friendship is that it cannot be forced or pretended. This is one relationship which is beyond social obligations and the DNA spectrum...

Do you work? This question has become the second most important question asked after how are you? Or what’s your name? And if one thinks that this is...

Who doesn't like movies? Movies make us forget the troubles and help us indulge into the dreamland, where there are picturesque castles, flying animals, and talking birds! Oh how...

Getting through to a school of their choice still remains one of the most dreaded milestone for all the parents in India. And, if it is a child...

  When I got to know that my daughter had Down syndrome, I thought of a life which would be sad, depressing and cheerless in the years to come,...

Who can forget the famous scene from the movie ‘Kaalia’ where Amitabh Bacchan beats a bad guy to a pulp in the jail when he pushes a handicapped...

The first thing I saw on Facebook this morning was a ‘rant’ by a special needs mother who apparently was approached by an old lady asking about the...

Mom, look at those kids, they don’t want Aarshia to play with them.” My son shook my arm while I was blissfully enjoying my book by the pool...

Last week, my brother got married and, with him I once again got to live the celebrations that we all Indians give so much importance to. Those who...

There comes a time in your life when you realise the things that matter and things that don’t. It is also true in context of disability. After the...

There is an old adage about age, that it is an issue of mind, if you don’t mind it doesn't matter. After being a mother of a special...

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. -Barbara Kingsolver Motherhood has always been considered a right of every woman. Thin, Fat, rich, poor, urban, rural, it is...