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Online classes: the yearning to go offline

Prabalika M. Borah The biggest realisation for students attending online learning is how much they miss their school and friends

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

Deepa Alexander In this book, the fourth in his memoir series, the author looks back on the year he went away to the UK at 16 to begin his writing journey

A still from the play

This children’s play from Seoul narrates the Korean legend of ‘Choon Hyang’

Gowri S One of the show’s highlights is its costume design — the elaborate Korean traditional costumes are made out of hanji paper. It will be available to stream on July 30

Priya Sebastian

Adolescence in conflict zones: an illustrated children’s book by Priya Sebastian

Deepa Alexander ‘Is It The Same For You?’ paints an intimate portrait about growing up in a fragile part of the world

In School

An eye for an i #399 Magellan’s Venus adventure

A 2011 picture showing Dippy on display at the Hintze Hall in the Natural History Museum, London.

An eye for an i #398 The man who gave us “dinosaurs”

An eye for an i #397 Igniting the concept of catalysis

Pages of a book displaying the 1860 solar eclipse photos clicked by de la Rue and his crew.

An eye for an i #396 When Warren de la Rue captured an eclipse

An eye for an i #395 Nerve cells get a name

Portrait of Henri Moissan.

An eye for an i #394 The man who spotted the 'Tiger' in the lab

The history of solar sailing

An eye for an i #393 The mission failed, the idea didn’t

An eye for an i #392 An armour to dive deeper

Portrait of Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers.

An eye for an i #391 Olbers and the discovery of the brightest asteroid

Full view of Mir space station in its orbit around Earth.

An eye for an i #390 Mir, the first modular space station

Escalators at Amagerbro Metro Station in Copenhagen, Denmark.

An eye for an i #389 An amusement ride turns into escalator

Portrait of Johannes Kepler.

An eye for an i #388 Kepler and his laws of planetary motion

Short Stories

Illustration: Sreejith R Kumar

Dragon or dog?

SURYAKUMARI DENNISON Akash and Arvind’s badminton pursuit was in peril, thanks to the mysterious monster next door.

Illustration: Sonal Goyal

Train of tales Slip of the leash

SHYAMALA SHANMUGASUNDARAM A visit to the graveyard with Mrs. Charumathi and Floppy makes Rayu think about some earlier escapades.

Illustration: Sonal Goyal

Summer with the Goldies: Eerie chore

SHYAMALA SHANMUGASUNDARAM Just as Rayu escapes Mad Malini’s wrath, Mrs. Charumathi has a peculiar task lined up for them.

Children's Books

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

Deepa Alexander

Prof Shonku finds the AI machine in Tellus

Indrani Majumdar on translating the final volume of Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku stories

Divya Anand turned her experiences with curly hair into a picture book for kids

Divya Anand on her picture book 'I Hate My Curly Hair'

Hooked to reading (from left) Paro Anand, Jerry Pinto, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Anushka Ravishankar

A hook into reading

A wide variety of genres to choose from

GetLitt! offers free access to its digital library during the lockdown

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Jahnavigouri Panicker, VII, Siddartha Central School, Kollam, Kerala

Drawings from India

Neel V, VII C, Rashtrotthana Vidya Kendra, Dharwad, Karnataka

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K. Hemarupika, V D, The Ashok Leyland School, Hosur, Tamil Nadu

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BOOK CLUB Children

In turbulent times

PARENTRAP Children

Freedom of all sorts

Train of tales Children

Freak family

Diverse, that’s me

Drawings from India

An eye for an i #399 Children

Magellan’s Venus adventure

A parent’s guide to gadget-free play

After schoolwork on a screen is done, how do you make sure your child is not back on one, playing video games? Parents share what works for them

The Wellbeing Children's Quiz: V for Vitamins

How much do you know about the Vitamins that your body needs

Online classes: the yearning to go offline

The biggest realisation for students attending online learning is how much they miss their school and friends

Read between the words

In this popular idiom, what is the ‘nine’ that a stitch would save?

Magnificent mentor

Rizwan’s theft was mere minutes away from being discovered. He shuddered at the consequences of being exposed, but things took a different turn...

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

In this book, the fourth in his memoir series, the author looks back on the year he went away to the UK at 16 to begin his writing journey

Here to stay

Instead of taking a break from the pandemic, I went back in time to meet a whole host of them!

War of the gods

Who were the Titans and the Olympians? Why were they fighting? Read on…

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Have an elephantistic day

Elephants are the largest land mammals on earth. On World Elephant Day, August 12, let us take a look at some of their unique traits.

Shorty finds friends

The freezing winters did not seem to dampen Shorty’s spirits. He was busy increasing the size of his group.

The man who gave us “dinosaurs”

The word dinosaur evokes a strong image every time it is uttered – that of a large prehistoric reptile that roamed about our Earth. They might have been around during the Mesozoic Era over 200 million years ago, but it was only in the 1840s that we humans started using the name that we now associate with them. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at British palaeontologist Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosaur to define them...

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On a literary voyage

One of the country’s much-loved authors tells us how he found his calling in the world of books...

How Presel Divakaran captured collective childhoods with his art

A viral photograph inspires an artist to imagine the new reality of online education through the mind of a child

Igniting the concept of catalysis

On July 27, 1823, German chemist Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner discovered that hydrogen ignited spontaneously in air over a platinum sponge. While he utilised this phenomenon in the Dobereiner’s lamp that he developed, little did he know that he was paving the way for a concept later termed catalysis. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at a man who gave us a lamp that sparked in more ways than one...

This children’s play from Seoul narrates the Korean legend of ‘Choon Hyang’

One of the show’s highlights is its costume design — the elaborate Korean traditional costumes are made out of hanji paper. It will be available to stream on July 30

Adolescence in conflict zones: an illustrated children’s book by Priya Sebastian

‘Is It The Same For You?’ paints an intimate portrait about growing up in a fragile part of the world

Evanescent hitchhiker

We were enveloped by the grey swirling mist. In the faint yellow beam of the headlights, we saw the silhouette of a man with an umbrella.

History lives on here

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia, which has been in the news recently, is an architectural marvel and one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.

Sixer in the safari

A dive, a catch, and great timing were all it took for forest guide Nikhil’s cricketing dreams to take off ...

A snowball in space

There’s a special guest in our skies, and now is the perfect time to catch a glimpse.

Drawings from India

Drawings from India

Introducing young minds to the world of music early on

Mumbai-based music teacher Shyama Panikkar’s classes Sur Taal Aur Masti help kids learn the facets of music through fun and play

Oxford students publish ebook to help schoolgoers study at home

Bengaluru’s Tejas Acharya and his friends at the University of Oxford wrote Learn Better At Home to help secondary school students

Ronit and the tooth fairy

Fantasyland, magic and prizes were enough to get him out of bed and ready in a jiffy. However, there were some surprises in store!

Pitter, patter, Potter on

A century -and-a-half later, Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin continue to enthral readers of all ages. On July 28, Beatrix Potter’s birth anniversary, let’s revisit the magic of her books...

Author Lakshmi Iyer takes on serious issues with light-hearted flair in ‘Why is My Hair Curly’

In ‘Why is My Hair Curly?’ author Lakshmi Iyer deals with issues of adoption, self-awareness and a sense of belonging as seen through the eyes of a child

Kimchi: Aged to perfection

South Korea’s most famous cultural export, used even in ‘gastrodiplomacy’, is a pungent vegetarian dish.

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Cradle of civilisation

Eclectic and enchanting, Ethiopia is a land steeped in history

When Warren de la Rue captured an eclipse

The solar eclipse that took place on July 18, 1860 is considered the most important solar eclipse of the 19th Century. It certainly did help English astronomer and chemist Warren de la Rue, for he was able to answer one of the greatest astronomical questions of the age and leave behind a legacy. Join A.S.Ganesh as he traces de la Rue’s adventure and the secrets he revealed...

Finding gold

Just as the lockdown seemed to get duller, came a reminder that Nature was still around.

Money bags for Montu

Montu learns about the importance of helping out around the house, with a little nudge from Dad

A website by science enthusiasts gains traction during the lockdown

The page shasthrasnehi.com has articles written by science buffs from across the country

Off to the hills

With incessant online classes, I was heading for a burnout. Turns out, kids can experience them too!

Become a fragrance chemist

A perfume or fragrance chemist creates perfume compositions and flavouring. It is a challenging profession. An understanding of chemistry is required

Drawings from India

Drawings from India

Nerve cells get a name

In a paper published on July 13, 1891 in the German journal Berliner Klin. Wochenschr, Wilhelm Waldeyer used the term ‘neuron’ to mean ‘nerve cell’ for the first time in print. Formulating the idea that a neuron is the basic unit of the nervous system was one of the biggest discoveries of the 19th Century. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at the discovery and naming of neurons...

Ch-ching!

Rayu’s honesty pays off, much to his delight.

Eerie visitors

As everyone tries to get a good night’s sleep, things take a spooky turn

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