What makes good music? Prabir’s new flute is about a young boy, Prabir, who plays the most melodious music on his flute. But one day, his flute breaks in an accident, and he makes another one from bamboo he finds in a dirty, dusty junkyard. The music from that flute is not happy or melodious […]
Do you recall learning about the Dandi March in school? What are the facts you remember? Gandhiji’s long walk, salt tax, and maybe a few dates? Do you remember learning about why the village of Dandi was chosen by Gandhiji or what its topographic conditions were? Going beyond the facts and weaving a story around […]
India is famous for its rivers, but as parents of curious children, do we know enough to discuss our rivers with them? All of our rivers have stories that are an intrinsic part of our mythology and culture. The stories are interesting and are also an easy and fun way to introduce our children to […]
In honour of National Science Day, I thought a review of the latest book in the Great Minds at Work series, Raman and Chandrashekhar, would be most appropriate. Raman and Chandrashekhar, written by Arundhati Venkatesh and illustrated by Priya Kuriyan, was a much-awaited book in our home. The previous book in the series by the […]
There is nothing like a good mystery to pull someone out of a reading slump, and when that mystery takes you back to childhood nostalgia, you know it is a winner! With football and exams, the boys hadn’t read a book in a while, and this is exactly what they needed. When I read Monika […]
If I had to be honest, I’d say, I envy this generation. We studied history and the Mughals too and I can safely speak for my fellow millennials and say, it was never this fun. The Book Of Emperors: An Illustrated History of Mughals by Ashwitha Jayakumar and Nikhil Gulati takes you on a whirlwind […]
Everyone has a favourite book that they clung to through their growing up years, The Little Prince was that book for me. I have a copy that has passed the well-thumbed-through stage and is well on to the tattered stage, but I still read it every once in a while and take back something new […]
Reading Ramanujan was like reading the Priyanka Chopra of books — it did so many things and left me breathless! In addition to that, it weaved its magic on my family — it managed to make a 10-year-old, a 6-year-old, and an almost 40-year-old giggle, LOL, and fall in love with it. That is true […]
If you, like me, are of a certain age then you definitely would have had a pen pal. Mine was a girl in South Africa. The joy of coming back home from school to find a letter addressed to you with an exotic stamp was unparalleled. I guess Gen Z feels the same way when […]
Imagine being 8.5 years old and school has just closed for summer break. You have a long break ahead of you, and the world is literally your oyster! You have an exciting holiday planned at your grandparents’ house with your cousins — lots of staying up late, endless games of hide and seek, and of […]