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Odiyen Lakshmanan with kids

Odiyen Lakshmanan on his efforts to revive different tribal languages

Susan Joe Philip The Coimbatore-based tribal rights activist has collected more than 100 tribal stories as a part of his mission

Aparna Vishwanatham,

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

In School

Portrait of Gemma Frisius by Maarten van Heemskerck.

An eye for an i#421 Of globes, triangulation and camera obscura

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

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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Adarshini Samaddar, V G, Delhi Public School, Ranchi, Jharkhand

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

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Drawings from India

TALESPIN Children

Blame games

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Seeing is believing?

Heard of the Iron Man bacteria?

An eye for an i#421 Children

Of globes, triangulation and camera obscura

Ecosphere Children

Ephemeral flush of the monsoons

A change of heart

Sneha is not happy about Manasi taking over her position as the teacher’s pet. She decides to do something about it...

Summer’s end: Does the wind have eyes?

The night is stormy and windy but why do they have a feeling that someone is watching them?

Meet the Chennai girl who owns 130 fossils

Chennai-based school student Aswatha Biju’s interest in palaeontology has taken her to several fossil sites in India, and led her to educate other students as well

Odiyen Lakshmanan on his efforts to revive different tribal languages

The Coimbatore-based tribal rights activist has collected more than 100 tribal stories as a part of his mission

Know the scientist: Jane Cooke Wright

Jane Wright pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat breast cancer and skin cancer

For the people

On January 26, 1950, India became a republic. Here’s how it happened.

Hightail it to the Highline

How a redundant rail line became a public park in New York.

Life, unplugged

As if a tweenager’s life isn’t puzzling enough, my parents bought me an actual puzzle!

Bringing cosmic dust to Earth

On January 16, 2006, Stardust mission completed one of its phases by successfully returning comet and interstellar dust back to Earth. It continued its voyage, becoming the first mission to visit two comets. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at the mission that was the first to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the moon to Earth...

Pongal-o-Pongal!

Nandhini, Muthu and Kumar get a true festival experience at their grandparents’ house.

Wind sculptures spin with grace at Hyderabad’s Sanjeevaiah Park

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

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

Drawings from India

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

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