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  1. The young must write

    Posted by Nivedita N
    / June 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    A girl dressed in a blue color salwar, a pink color scarf over her head and a sweet smile. She was reciting a poem on the colors of her duppatta. It evoked so many emotions. Not just in me but also the people around. Every line written with thought and...

  3. No volcano forms in a day

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    / February 10, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The news of a class IX student in Chennai stabbing his Hindi teacher to death has come as a shock to every one. But no volcano forms in a day. It is pent-up energy in the child in the form of frustration that he has given vent to. Child is...

  4. Pocket money

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    / January 10, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Scene: A lower middle-class home with only the head of the family earning a meagre salary Characters: Father and his teenage daughter Situation: Month-end; Father needs urgent cash. Asks his daughter if she has something left from her pocket money. ‘Did you spent your pocket money this month?’ ………..…The days of scarlet...

  5. Mommy, what’s a chicken?

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    / January 10, 2012 / 1 Comment
    By Maria Francis At age five, I had gotten my first memorable mosquito bite. On a vacation back at India. The perpetrator had done a fine job on my wrist and the result was a big, red and ugly patch of raised skin. And in some remote part of my...

  6. Two is a big number … relatively speaking

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    / December 28, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Maria Francis   I think I am finally beginning to understand Einstein’s ‘Theory of Relativity’. “Almost 12 years too late for that now, isn’t it Maria?” my Physics teacher would have asked. But hey, I got there. Quoting Albert Einstein, scientist extraordinaire – “Put your hand on a hot stove...

  7. Santa Claus-ed

    Posted by Nivedita N
    / December 25, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Nivedita The `beard-clad’ man in bright red clothes and laughing hysterically scared me, all of six years. I refused to take any gift from this stranger, even though my mother cajoled me to. I even cried when he insisted on carrying me. Finally, with great difficulty, I posed for a picture...

  8. Life Lessons for my Kid

    Posted by wd
    / December 23, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Dear Kid, While it is your life and you have to learn your own lessons, I thought I could make it easier for you by sharing some lessons I have learned.LIFE & GOD1.Life is not Fair Instead of wasting your time thinking in terms of “but” this should not have...

  9. `I don’t like this Jawaharlal Nehru’

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    / December 23, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S SudhirTejaswini was very agitated. A day before her Hindi exam, she decided she did not want to write the essay on `Pradushan’ (pollution) that she had already prepared. So the onus was on Uma to help her write out and prepare a fresh essay on Jawaharlal Nehru,...

  10. Papa kehte hain, bada naam karega

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    / December 11, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir So as Aamir Khan sings “Papa kehte hain bada naam karega” to Azad Rao Khan, I must appreciate him for doing a Sanjay Leela Bhansali, by putting a part of Kiran Rao too in Azad’s name. Inspired by the idea that a child draws as much,...

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