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Wind sculptures spin with grace at Hyderabad’s Sanjeevaiah Park

Neeraja Murthy Designed by experiential science centre DoScience, artistic wind sculptures at Hyderabad’s Sanjeevaiah Park showcase an engineering marvel

ART Seven-year-old in Madurai sells his paintings worth ₹50,000 for charity

Soma Basu Seven-year-old Rithun Kunal in Madurai sells his paintings for ₹50,000; his parents donate it to charity

Quizzing over ketchup and fries

Soma Basu How a gaming venue in Madurai relaunched itself as the city’s first cafe for quizzing enthusiasts

Rajiv Eipe’s illustration in the book ‘A Book For Puchku’ by Deepanjana Pal

Interview Illustrator Rajiv Eipe on the power of images

Neeraja Murthy Illustrator Rajiv Eipe on the art of telling stories without words

In School

The Stardust’s capsule return as seen from NASA's laboratory during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in 2006.

An eye for an i #420 Bringing cosmic dust to Earth

Type 3 poliovirus capsid (protein shell of a virus, enclosing its genetic material), coloured per chains.

An eye for an i #419 Loring and Schwerdt, and their search for poliovirus

An eye for an i #418 Stone paper s̶c̶i̶s̶s̶o̶r̶s̶ straws

Statue of Crawford Long that can be seen at the United States Capitol.

An eye for an i #417 It’s a Long story!

An Atlas-B missile being prepared to launch the SCORE satellite.

An eye for an i #416 SCORE scores full marks

An artist's concept of NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft.

An eye for an i #415 The first successful interplanetary mission

An image from photographic plates of the 1882 transit of Venus.

An eye for an i #414 The Venus transit of 1882

Enos with his handler (left) and pictured wearing a space suit and lying in his flight couch as a handler holds his hands (above).

An eye for an i #413 Enos, the chimp that orbited the Earth

A modern snowmobile in action.

An eye for an i #412 The beginnings of the snowmobile

Electron shell diagram for astatine, the 85th element in the periodic table.

An eye for an i #411 All about element No. 85

Artist’s illustration shows the mythical centaur creature with asteroids on the left and comets on the right.

An eye for an i #410 The mystery of the centaurs

An engraving of Andre-Jacques Garnerin.

An eye for an i #409 Tale of the first parachute jump

Short Stories

Battle for the pot of nectar

R. Krithika Garuda reaches Amaravati and all the plans that the devas made come to nought.

PARENTRAP Quarantine minus the canine

BUG BOY Being stuck indoors for two weeks can be a bummer; more so, without man’s best friend around.

Train of tales Getting in touch with Nana

Lesley Biswas Beginning a new serial story. Maya has an unusual request for her mother. Well, it’s more bizarre, than unusual; or so her mother thinks.

Children's Books

Workshops NCPA’s five-day virtual workshops aim to foster creativity

Tantri the Mantri

Growing old with Shikari Shambu: 40 years of ‘Tinkle’

Read a book or watch a movie on Children’s Day

Escapades galore

A model of a tractor made by Wayanad-based Abdul CK

80-year-old Abdu ikka from Wayanad crafts toys from junk

Saraswathy Nagarajan

Ruskin Bond celebrates 70 years of storytelling with ‘A Song Of India’

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Asmi John, VIII, Bethlahem Hillside International School, Karungal, Tamil Nadu

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M. Kamarun Nisha, VI, St.Mary's Matric Higher Secondary School, Theni, Tamil Nadu

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Past forward Children

For the people

Eureka Children

Hightail it to the Highline

PARENTRAP Children

Life, unplugged

An eye for an i #420 Children

Bringing cosmic dust to Earth

Pongal-o-Pongal!

Wind sculptures spin with grace at Hyderabad’s Sanjeevaiah Park

Harvest express

Take a trip around the country and discover the many different ways of revelling in the season’s festivities.

Ring in the new

Never in my life did I think that an outing would change the way I look at our food providers!

Loring and Schwerdt, and their search for poliovirus

Stanford scientists Hubert Scott Loring and Carlton Everett Schwerdt announced their successful isolation of poliovirus on January 10, 1947. Even though it was only 80% pure and extracted from cotton rats infected with polio, it was a breakthrough at the time and a giant stride in our continuing fight against polio.

Strange happenings

Mishti was uncomfortable. The bowl of curry went flying from Albert’s hands. What was going on?

Summer’s End: What a mess!

As Dhruv and Keya’s holiday was coming to an end, some mysterious events take place.

Know the scientist: Dmitri Mendeleev

Using the Periodic Law, he developed a systematic table of all the 63 elements then known

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Unrequited love

How Echo and Narcissus gave their names to words in the English language.

Stone paper s̶c̶i̶s̶s̶o̶r̶s̶ straws

Did you know that January 3 is celebrated as the National Drinking Straw Day in the U.S.? It is a way of commemorating the date in 1888, when Marvin C. Stone received a patent for his paper straw. A.S.Ganesh tells the story of Stone and his straws...

It’s electrifying!

Ever thought of where the electricity we use everyday comes from? Here’s a book that tells you all about it.

21 for 2021

A list of activities to keep you on your toes this year. How many do you think you will have done by its end?

A bright beginning…

The past year had been gloomy and dull. Is Deepak’s handiwork a sign of better things to come?

Seven-year-old in Madurai sells his paintings worth ₹50,000 for charity

Seven-year-old Rithun Kunal in Madurai sells his paintings for ₹50,000; his parents donate it to charity

Quizzing over ketchup and fries

How a gaming venue in Madurai relaunched itself as the city’s first cafe for quizzing enthusiasts

Looking ahead

Let’s put the thoroughly overwhelming 2020 behind us and see what 2021 has in store.

Illustrator Rajiv Eipe on the power of images

Illustrator Rajiv Eipe on the art of telling stories without words

Ring in the new

Good fortune, prosperity and health are common wishes, no matter how the New Year is celebrated across the world.

It’s a Long story!

When it comes to the question of who can take the credit for the anaesthesia discovery, there are no clear answers. There are a number of players, each with their own stories, supporters and conflicting opinions. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at American physician Crawford Williamson Long, whose claim might well have been thorough had he done more to propagate it sooner...

Drawings from India

Drawings from India

To new beginnings

Does it make sense to plan for the year ahead after the unpredictable whirlwind that was last year?

Amid the winter snow

Take a look at how some countries celebrate Christmas in their own unique way.

Evergreen gifts

Just when Ricky thought that he had no Christmas presents for his neighbours, Rina had an idea...

A year like no other

As the curtains fall on this year, it’s time to relive some key moments that defined 2020.

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SCORE scores full marks

A grand total of 35 people in the world knew the true mission behind Project SCORE when the top-secret mission was launched on December 18, 1958. A day later its success was broadcast around the globe, literally. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at Project SCORE, the world’s first communication satellite...

The spirit of true giving

Rachel learns what it means to be charitable on Christmas Day.

Opening up new worlds

Inundated with requests for mobile phones, Santa decides to take present giving into his own hands.

Man of math

Three notebooks and a huge bundle of papers with unpublished work ... Srinivasa Ramanujan’s legacy continues to inspire mathematicians many years after his death.

The silver bottle: As luck would have it

Aniket and Fortune finally meet Lady Laura Lucklina, but not all goes the way Aniket thought it would.

For all the senses

The gastronomic meal of the French is as much about food as it is about practices.

Know the scientist: Carl Woese

In 1992, Carl Woese won the Dutch Royal Academy of Science’s Leeuwenhoek Medal, the highest honour in microbiology

Chennai Government school libraries get a facelift thanks to Build A Library project

Rotary Club of Madras Next Gen collaborates with Aravani Art Project to create vibrant and colourful libraries in the city’s Government schools

Whom are you quoting?

Let’s talk about quotes, quotation marks, and how and when to use them.

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Students discover classics and contemporary bestsellers in online book clubs

Through online book clubs, young readers are now discovering titles and genres that are not easily found in physical libraries

The first successful interplanetary mission

Mariner 2 made its Venus flyby on December 14, 1962. Coming hot on the heels of Mariner 1, a failure, Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to another planet that fulfilled its objective. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at a mission that not only taught us more about Venus, but also about how to operate a spacecraft far away from our planet Earth...

Timeless Tunisia

Historic sites, dramatic desert landscapes, stunning beaches and a vibrant culture ... North Africa’s smallest country packs quite a punch.

Comparisons just went global

Forget siblings and friends, the ideal has gone up several notches after Time Magazine’s Kid of the Year choice.

Wellbeing quiz: Not so common

A quiz on rare diseases. Take this quiz to find out

Know the scientist: Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg

Like many woman scientists of her time, Esther Lederberg was not given credit for her scientific contribution because of her gender.

Want to climb the Vessel?

This quirky structure, part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in New York, has got people talking.

Feline capers

Mrs. Katson’s surprise was a little more than her students could handle.

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