There is a certain discomfort in giving money away. You want to help, but you have read the stories about charities that spend more on their own brochures than on the people in the photographs. So you hesitate, and the hesitation is reasonable. The answer is not to stop giving. It is to give with...
We like to measure a city by what it builds. Gurugram, by that measure, has done well for itself: the towers, the offices, the cars that cost more than most houses. But there is an older, harder measure of a place, and it has nothing to do with glass and steel. It is what the...
Every city teaches its residents how to look away. In Gurgaon the lesson is a daily one. We drive past the man slumped against the flyover pillar. We step around the woman who has been sitting on the same traffic island for weeks, talking to no one we can see. We tell ourselves someone else...
A society reveals itself in how it treats the people who cannot argue for themselves. Not the articulate campaigner or the organised lobby, but the person with a severe mental illness who cannot explain what happened to them, the man with an intellectual disability found wandering a highway with no papers and no name. These...
Every city in India has a population that most people walk past without seeing. They sleep on pavements, under flyovers, outside railway stations, and in the narrow gaps between buildings. They are there in the morning when office workers walk by with their phones out, and they are there at night when the city quiets...
When a family starts searching for an old age home in Gurgaon, it is rarely a simple decision. It usually comes after months of trying to manage things at home, a health scare, or the quiet recognition that an elderly parent needs more consistent care than the family can provide on its own. The search...
India is getting older. That is not a metaphor. It is a demographic fact that the country has not yet fully reckoned with. According to the United Nations Population Fund, India’s elderly population, people aged 60 and above, is expected to reach 319 million by 2050. Right now, that number stands at around 140 million....
From inherited missions to independent movements – young social workers are reshaping care for India’s most vulnerable. A Quiet Shift in Who Shows Up Something is changing in Gurugram’s social service landscape – and it isn’t making headlines. For decades, the city’s charitable work was carried forward by a generation of founders – retired professionals,...
A practical guide for CSR heads, foundations, and companies looking to direct their social responsibility spending toward one of India’s most urgent – and most overlooked – causes. India’s corporate social responsibility landscape has matured significantly since the Companies Act, 2013 made CSR spending mandatory for qualifying companies. Billions of rupees now flow into social...
Most donation pages tell you how to give. This one tells you what happens after. When Ramesh arrived at The Earth Saviours Foundation’s shelter in Gurugram, he had been sleeping on a roadside median for eleven days. He was 74 years old, malnourished, and had a wound on his foot that had gone untreated for...
