'With running water our two hands play, In and out the colourful soap dances away! It bubbles and froths between our fingers Under our nails it cleans and lingers Then all the soap we wash away!'
Tudu's free tuition classes are sought after. She has 45 students who come to her every day to study. Geetanjali Krishna meets the young teacher in one of India's poorest villages, winner of the Plan India Youth Champion Award.
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to Uphaar theatre owners Sushil and Gopal Ansal after they surrendered before it in a case of destruction of evidence relating to the 1997 fire tragedy that claimed 59 lives
The who's who of the Telugu film industry made sure to attend his prayer service on Sunday.
Prathap Kumar Rath, Lieutenant General Rath's brother who faces an army inquiry in the Sukna land controversy, believs the case against his sibling has been engineered.
'Within and outside their homes, all married women in this region must cover not only their heads, but in some cases, faces too,' discovers Geetanjali Krishna.
The hits and misses of the week.
St Jude India ChildCare Centres is a unique organisation which runs residential homes for families of children who need to undergo long-term cancer treatment. Its 37 centres close to India's premier cancer hospitals give children a fighting chance against the disease.
'We're faceless while we're alive, invisible when we die.'
Nagpur-based Slum Soccer is transforming the lives of slum children with the help of football, writes Geetanjali Krishna.
'I may not have had a lot of money to spend on her, but I certainly make sure the government did,' a Delhi electrician who inspired his daughter to study tells Geetanjali Krishna.
'Even the most basic water amenities, people like us used every day, didn't exist there at all.'
In one case, the folks at SWAN discovered that of the Rs 1,500 they'd transferred as relief in the account of a stranded worker, the bank had deducted Rs 800 as penalty for not having minimum balance!
'When I read that the blaze has engulfed the beautiful oak and pine forests around Kumaon's Lake District, my heart bled,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
A Class 12 student is changing the lives of the girls in her village, says Geetanjali Krishna.
'Everyone wants that doctors should fight from the frontlines of the pandemic, but there's no reaction from the government when they fall ill or even die because of it.'
A quick computation puts the following value to the seizures.
The physical and mental benefits that accrued from labour, Trivediji said, were far greater than those accrued from mere exercise. Which pearl of wisdom left Geetanjali Krishna facing an existential crisis.
The hits and misses of the week.
Why was it so easy for students to get a college degree? asks Geetanjali Krishna.
Their music, available online, sung in Hindi, English, Urdu and Marathi, displays a new grammar and vocabulary which expresses the language of the disempowered,
Mukti Bhawan is as much about its characters embracing the inevitability of death as it is about their loved ones grappling with conflicting emotions, writes Sukanya Verma.
The film will be in Telugu.
Nagpal, who is under the care of the Delhi Commission for Women, was admitted to VIMHANS on Monday night.
Kurla Express, which was scheduled to leave Shalimar station at 3.00 pm, was cancelled for the day.
The challenge before the management is ensuring simultaneous disclosure of key information to stock exchanges and investigating agencies.
The Delhi Commission for Women, which took the ex-model under its wings, plans her to re-launch on the ramp on the occasion of International Women's Day next year.
In the run-up to the 2019 election, netas of all hues are reiterating their devotion for all things bovine, says Geetanjali Krishna.
Nagpal, who was found begging in a market in South Delhi by a photojournalist on Friday, is now under the care of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW).
Khalid Saifullah created Missing Voters, an app which enables people to conveniently apply for voter cards.
'It isn't an art house film. It is essentially a feel-good story.'
'Although I feel more comfortable living with my own people, I often remember those cricket matches by the river bank...'
However, Jaitley's son-in-law had earlier issued a statement stating that his law firm had returned the retainership the moment they came to know that the company was involved in a scam.
'As the Aisi Taisi Democracy folk so aptly put it, time to choose who will s**** us most', says Geetanjali Krishna.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
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