Hi folks, this is a podcast of an interview that I gave while I was in Australia. The interviewers were really insightful, and funny at times. It’s called The Imperfects
This is Asha’s first international student Mahinder (extreme left). His home in the slum was in front of a dirty smelly public toilet block. He grew up in great poverty. Today he works as a software engineer for Macquarie Bank…
This is Chandan. He lived in poverty all his life in an Asha slum community, his father picking up heavy boxes of copper wire from trucks, and manually transporting them into storage spaces. I remember meeting him when he was…
A surreal moment in the lives of the boys- meeting famous Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting at a major event organized by the Australia India Chamber of Commerce. The Asha video was shown, and the work of Asha was spoken about…
I met with the Governor of Victoria the Hon Linda Dessau who is the Patron of Australian Friends of Asha. She and her husband Anthony had visited Asha some years ago. She was delighted to hear of the progress of…
I had the great joy of meeting the Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of Melbourne. The two wonderful days of engaging with faculty and officials at the highest level were organized by Professor Jim McCluskey, Deputy VC Research;…
From the huge dirt filled ponds in the slum, squatting in the jungles, filling cans of water from govt tankers for his needs, studying under the light of a torch, stuttering constantly, never having any money to buy enough food…
Hi everyone, it was such a pleasure for me to meet an old friend Peter Varghese and his wife Margaret today. Peter was the Australian High Commissioner to India in 2009, and it is he along with Liz Peak who…
Dr. Kiran was invited to the University of Queensland by Rongyu Li, Deputy Vice- chancellor and Vice-president of the University for a discussion on the partnership between the University of Queensland and Asha. Other senior officials such as Brett Lovegrove,…
Dr. Kiran and Amritesh spoke at an event organized by Nik Senapati, chair of the Queensland chapter of Australia India Business Council. A number of business men representing large business enterprises such as Adani group in Brisbane were present on…
