MEERA MAHADEVAN DARING TO CARE FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN
In March 1969, huge pavilions were being constructed at Gandhi Darshan, for an exhibition honouring Gandhi’s birth centenary. A young member of the Centenary Planning Committee, Meera Mahadevan, noted the plight of children at the site. Infants lay in the flying dust, toddlers wandered around cement mixers and sledgehammers, older children helped their parents fetch…