In August 2021, most unexpectedly, I got a call from Mr Madhavan, ex-CEO of Cognizant Foundation who is a good friend and a well-wisher of Bala Mandir. At that time the world was in the grip of the COVID pandemic and we had just launched the Kinship Care programme and were looking to get some...
Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving – Hank Rossa Let me begin with an interesting incident. We live in a newly-formed gated society of over 250 households, most of whom are upper middle-class owners. One would believe that we don’t have any significant number of nit-pickers or street fighters in our...
We have very special donors; in fact, they are two sisters, Mrs. Bhargavi Sundararajan and Mrs. Usha Ranganathan, who have been gifting all our Bala Mandir children with lovely new and colourful clothes every Diwali. Though living in the US, distance has not stopped them from making this very special contribution to make Diwali an enjoyable...
For my father’s Sashtiaptharpurthi (61st birthday) in 1990, we had a big celebration and the extended family and friends from various places, including from far North of India, assembled in Thirukadaiyur where we had made booking for all of them. It was an elaborate function spread over 2 days. It was a wonderful event and...
