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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

WILL YOU ROLL DOWN YOUR WINDOW? A small boy stops at your car Squints through the sun As he asks you to lower your window.   Some click their tongues with frustration Tap the window to drive the children away Maybe their excuse is that…

An autorickshaw spots mother-daughter duo begging near a railway station Aarti was a four-year-old living with her parents in Karnataka. She was the only child to her parents. Her father was the sole earning member of the family and her mother was a homemaker. Her…

Each year, 2nd April is observed as World Autism Awareness Day, with the aim to raise awareness about the autism spectrum disorder—a range of conditions characterized by some degree of impaired social behavior, communication and language, and a narrow range of interests and activities that…