The Convenient Charity

When my friend Prashant was working here and I was in Hyderabad, I had visited him once. While on the way to some place else, he had stopped at this orphanage and school for the blind. He was giving away his old jeans and he was grateful that he could dispose them off there. I don't recollect where we went after that but this address stuck in my head. So now I go there regularly too, to give away old clothes, equally grateful. Somehow it had never struck me that they could do with regular donations too and was embarrassed last time when the girl at the counter thrust a pamphlet in my hand. I think most people use that place to dump things only.

I guess Hamilton won't be forgiven by the 'rich' Indians soon. He has no business bringing it up when we are already rolling in guilt about it and on top of that, when he has the chance to make amends, he does not stop at the standard "India has great culture" and goes on to a "but"! Now that's not something to be forgotten easily!