Its been almost a year and a half I personally got associated with AJ Foundation and Madhurbhav.  Of course, there was an indirect connection for many years, as Mr Harshad Deshpande  (Board member AJ Foundation) has been Family for almost a decade. Thus, Mrs.Deshpande and I had been informally doing certain things on creative ends for Madhurbhav. It was in January 2017 that we decided to take up social media activity, blogs, and other writing stuff for madhurbhav on a channelizing front and a little more regular. That is where my formal association with Madhurbhav, the people there, their stories, became more prominent. Since the time I began writing, I have always been in awe of the raw blog stories that came to me from madhurbhav for editing and presenting them in the right way. The connect and understanding of madhurbhav and members is beyond amazing.  Being a mass communication and journalism postgraduate, my inclination has always been towar...

A regular visit to bliss, it was. but; it gave me a totally different perception of the connections and emotional bondings, madhurbhavians have with one another. It was a wonderful experience. Mrs.Kulkarni is now at an advanced stage of dementia. Where her conversation is absolutely vague. One sentence has no relevance to the next.Even before you ask her, to introduce herself,  She will start with where she comes from, what's the areas name, roads, landmarks and then suddenly jump to discussing about children and then say something about a distant niece, her job profile with Air-India, etc . and it goes on to losing track in a few seconds. We have another senior age 103 Years ( Wakalkar Ajoba), he is fit and well versed in conversing. he shares his life story with everyone and also at intervals, sneaks around in the kitchen for sweets . During the group activities, we observed that mrs.kulkarni connected to wakalkar ajoba as a friend. she would try to communicate with him, ...

                                                   Care at Madhur Bhav There are lots of calls and updates every day from Madhurbhav.   But this one was a little disturbing. One morning, a (seemingly) regular call turned out to be more than just that. I was told that Kulkarni Ajji (Name Changed) was not keeping well for the last four days. Her daughter had strictly instructed us not to admit her to the hospital because their family would be busy for a few days to come and could not visit if needed. The daughter added, she should be brave and not complain about little things to the Madhurbhav staff and them. She was admitted to Madhurbhav, for complete rest, as she wasn’t able to do anything on her own and was also not abl...

First resident of Blossom THE CHOSEN ONES As the saying goes, ‘If difficulties surround you, if you don’t fit in the box, if you don’t belong to the league, if you are different, YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE.’ I received an inquiry from Mumbai about ‘Madhur Bhav Blossom’(Nere). A Lady; along with her friend came down to see the facility. They told us about Pravin;  their brother in law. Swati and Sanjay are married for more than 45 years and were looking after Pravin. Pravin is Sanjay's  Younger brother and Swati is his caring sister-in-law. I could thoroughly understand, how Swati and Sanjay were committed to him as a family. But, with growing age and their own health limitations.it was getting difficult to look after him. When Swati narrated to me about Pravin, I got a little nervous; as we have worked with seniors and their ailments. This was an absolutely new and delicate case. Then after discussing it with my team; we thought let's give it a try a...

We were on a running Speer for a month! And it finally turned out to be absolutely beautiful and memorable one. On the occasion of its 3rd anniversary, Madhurbhav and ASCOP collaborated to celebrate and entertain everyone on May 30 th  Tuesday.  The evening was light, soothing and mesmerising as it saw all our YOUNG Madhur BH avians in their energetic high as always. For a month long, the staff, board members and every member  of Madhurbhav family were looking forward and preparing for this evening. The seniors were very enthusiastic and actively participating in the program setting. We had, Sur Palavi entertainment from Pune, presenting a live orchestra for the evening. The artists took the atmosphere of the program to another level, with their beautiful voices. They treated the audience with evergreen numbers of the 70’s.  Everyone seemed to be totally drenched in the rhythm of those musical chords and wonderful voices. To add the cherry on...