Reach India Foundation

Sufaid, Jalal, Impana, Sufian, Dilshad and Illias visited Reach India during the weekends. Impana and Sufaid reached at the wee hours on Saturday morning. I picked them up from Mananthavady. Jalal joined us on Saturday afternoon and Sufian made his presence felt late on Saturday evening. While Sufaid and Impana rested of Saturday morning, I went on to attend the Gram Sabha at Korom. It was evening by the time I came back home. When I returned, Jalal had already joined Sufaid and Impana. Mask painting! As the evening progressed, Impana suggested to paint and decided to paint Warli paintings on the wall. Jalal was experimenting with mask painting on Sufaid’s face. Sufaid had a cool camera and I started experimenting with aperture and shutter speed. Following the dinner, I requested Sufaid to sing Khwaja ji. Sufaid has a mesmerizing voice and post dinner we sat for almost an hour singing one song after the other. Mostly it was Sufaid’s personality that set the tone for t...

Kunhome AUP school. A tall man, brownish in complexion, clean shaven with an unobtrusive  moustache approached and with his body leaning on a pillar  introduced himself. "Hello, I am Satheeshan A.M. There are a lot of  Satheeshans in Kunhome AUP school, so remember A.M too. I am a Maths teacher. Keshavan Sir introduced your name to me even before you  arrived here today and  I am glad to meet you." Without losing a  breath, he continued, "You see, I have a problem. I am not in a  proper state of mind. I am fine to teach, but rest of the things do  not make sense to me. I am not in a proper state of mind because I  lost my son recently." It came out spontaneously.  He went on to tell  about his son who was studying in seventh standard in  Kozhikode. Satheeshan lost his son 45 days ago- in a road accident apparently  due to reckless  driving. The driver who rammed his car on two boys was less than eighteen years ...