MAKERS NOT TAKERS From students To lifelong learners As we string along words From our days in school And all the dreams we dream, It is only our skills that are the bridge. Skills makes us doers of our dreams. Skills that allow you…
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On July 12, 1997, Malala Yousafzai was born in the Swat Valley, what is now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. Driven by a firm belief in her right to an education, she was all of 12 when she took on the Taliban, a terrorist…
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“The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrolled way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us.” In the current times, one cannot help but pause and reflect on…
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Each day, each week, each month is bringing renewed challenges for India’s children. With the second wave of Covid-19 threatening to wash ashore India’s public healthcare system and the common person’s morale, the children have not been spared from its wrath either. From an unprecedented…
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Away from pens, books, and classrooms; away from friends, play, and innocence; very much away from a regular childhood. . . . You may have seen him bringing you tea after office hours, you may have seen her selling pens at the traffic signal, or…
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Present-day 2021; dire shortage of vaccine, failing health care system, scare of a third wave that might medically affect children, struggle to brave each day. Flashback 2020; novel coronavirus hits India, nationwide lockdown, lost jobs, mass unemployment, migrants take long arduous journeys back home, 12-year-old Jamlo…
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You will have seen the tragic situation in India on the news as a second wave of the Covid pandemic is sweeping across the country causing absolute chaos. Millions of people are infected, thousands are dying daily, and the healthcare system is completely overwhelmed. Our…
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In collaboration with Tulika Books, we present book reviews every month of new age stories and age old fables, to preserve and promote the habit of reading amongst all children. Nature does not discriminate. Nature invites, intrigues, and inspires all equally. In The Gular Flower, it is…
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Popular American children’s fiction writer Kate DiCamillo once said, ‘Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.’ Numerous studies have highlighted the benefits of inculcating the habit of reading early in childhood. Apart from…
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