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—  29 June 2009  — "People go to psychologists, I go to Brazil..." ~ Alex Magoli                                     Rio de Janeiro [photo by Shivani Chaudhry] Brasil dentro de mim... Eu dentro do Brasil ~ Shivani Chaudhry ~ Brazil flows in my blood. All the time. Even when I'm afar. A Brazilian rhythm beats in my heart, always... And when I arrive here, in this land of love, passion, hope, faith, struggle, beauty, and abundant affection and warmth, my heart sings and my veins throb with the passion of being alive... For that's what Brazil is for me. Living without repression, feeling without thinking, expressing without fear. Touching hearts. Being touched. Being overwhelmed. As the Italian photographer Alex Magoli so rightly said, "People go to psychologists, I go to Brazil..." Because Brazil has this incredible ability to heal... to restore... to revive... to give.....

—  29 May 2009  — “ How many more boys and girls can we let die on the cruel streets of this uncaring city that considers them blots in its ‘world class city’ image?  But children don’t live on streets in ‘world class’ cities. Children don’t die on streets in ‘world class’ cities.” Pradhan at the  Muskaan  school, 2009 [photo by Shivani Chaudhry] Traffic Light Children ~ Shivani Chaudhry ~ Another street-associated child who I knew and was fond of, passes away in Delhi, leaving me deeply grieved and dismayed. I don’t know who to blame anymore. Pradhan , a twelve-year-old boy, succumbed to injuries on 6 April 2009, after being hit by a truck at the Moti Bagh flyover in Delhi. No child should have to die at twelve. No child should have to live on the streets. I couldn’t believe it. I wept. It couldn’t be happening again. Radhakrishna , a boy who sold newspapers at the same traffic light, passed away on 4 October 2005. His death changed my life. And even though I t...