“I often visit the Nanak Piao Sahib Gurudwara in North Delhi and while once inside it is always peaceful and clean, the sight just outside was not so pleasing to the eyes,”
The empty nest syndrome, a phenomenon in which parent’s experience feelings of sadness and loss when the last child leaves home, affects different people in different ways. For Renu Gupta (63), a resident of Delhi, her children moving on to set up their own lives meant more time on hand to devote to causes she believed in.
Over the last decade and a half, she has silently worked towards transforming little pockets of spaces into beautiful green patches near her home in Delhi. When I asked her why she keeps going, she says, “It’s so much fun – to see this transformation come alive right before me.”
A will to make a difference
We, at The Better India, often write about administrative officers who have done phenomenal work in transforming a…