Family and Kids

Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain – not just a film, it is reliving history…

Many of us though very young at that time, must have heard about the deadly methyl isocyanate gas leak tragedy that shook not only Bhopal but entire nation. Official death toll was 3787 and virtually no count of injuries, temporary and permanent disabilities. Indeed, one of the worst disasters! Very recently, in the month of …

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You in SG and your parents in INDIA? Dilemmas and seeking some solutions

Many of we Indians in SG have to leave their parents back in India and shift here for work, business. We stay for a long period in SG and gradually become Permanent Residents or Citizens. Slowly but surely, living in the first world country and enjoying the latest of everything – kids education, science, technology, …

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Helpers – a boon to working moms in Singapore

On our SINdiapore forum [https://facebook.com/groups/SINdiapore], we keep on getting frequent questions regarding helpers [many people call them “maids”, I prefer to call them as “helper” 🙂 ]. Official term is FDW – Foreign Domestic Worker. When I first came in SG in 2006 and started searching the job, the first question that I faced was – Who will take …

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