A Nine-gated Palace

          Ammaji                                                                     Her mother in law is one of the most weird person I have seen. May be she is saying this because she has not seen other’s mother in laws. Sigh !      Manika’s mother in law left her studies in class 5 th so that her brothers can study and she can take care of the house. This is the very first reason of her frustration. She always indulges herself in family politics and backbiting. She has that strange habit of keeping important stuff to herself. Life for her is only watching TV, roaming around, & attending kirtans not ...

I was born and brought up in a small town of Uttar Pradesh. Though we were brought up in a comfortable set up but I did notice lots of unfortunate and less privileged people and specially children around us, the inequalities in the society always disturbed me. I always wanted to work for the betterment of the less fortunate of our society but how and when I had no clue.. It's been 14 years since the capital city has given me so much that now it’s the time to return something back to the society. As a trained logistics professional I wanted job satisfaction from my work which I was not getting and that compelled me to change my work place. So in continuation to the same, when there was not much work in my consultancy firm, last year I decided to give my career a new dimension. L ast year I joined an NGO as a fellow. My work as a volunteer with another NGO helped me as a fellow. We are trained to organise a community instead of doing only char...