Tag: Experience

  • Giving makes the world go round

    Tolkein very famously says in The Lord of the Rings that “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it, there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” This for me sums up…

  • My Chennai Superkings!

    My Journey at Give — Part I No, this is not in any way linked to IPL. This is a story of the heroes I met when I was in Chennai, only two weeks into my job at Give. I remember I had gone to Chennai, all the way from Kolkata, with only two bags in tow, to…

  • Dreams of a Child

    HEADING into Bihar, I wasn’t scared; I was anxious. Most people fear kidnapping, but seeing as I’ve been kidnapped before I felt my chances of survival were high. My concerns lay with visiting the Daudnagar Organisation for Rural Development, to make sure that our donations were being put to good use. I’ve traveled far and…