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Shyama Panikkar during a session of Sur Taal Aur Masti

Introducing young minds to the world of music early on

Harikumar J S 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

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

Ruth Dhanaraj 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

Screenshot of a page on shasthrasnehi.com

A website by science enthusiasts gains traction during the lockdown

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

In School

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

The surface of Venus from Venera 14.

An eye for an i #387 A failed probe finds its way to Venus

An eye for an i #386 Diesel and his engine

Processed picture using gray-scale images of Miranda taken by Voyager 2 on January 24 1986.

An eye for an i #385 Meet Miranda, a mysterious moon

A June 1973 picture of the Skylab.

An eye for an i #384 A lab in the skies

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

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

Chetan Sharma while signing a copy of ‘The Lion’s Feast’

Illustrator Chetan Sharma on the joy of working with children

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A.Arockiya Rani, IV, BMC Matriculation HSS, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu

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Praneeth.G, VI K, PSBBSS School, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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A snowball in space

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Introducing young minds to the world of music early on

Oxford students publish ebook to help schoolgoers study at home

Ronit and the tooth fairy

BOOK CLUB Children

Pitter, patter, Potter on

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

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

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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

The monster in the head

Avni wanted to speak aloud the things the voice in her head said and, when she finally did, it made all the difference

Evan Purcell: Now is the best time to read monster stories

The author says 2020 hasn’t been the best year for any of us and that tales involving articulate zombies and shark-headed librarians are an easy, fun way to deal with all the bad news

This Andhra teen created bots that track COVID-19 stats, help students identify their grades, and more

Thirteen-year-old Joshita Neelam from Unduru, Andhra Pradesh, completed an advanced certification programme in Robotic Process Automation and thus created bots

The first shock

Lasting just a day but costing around 400 lives, the Vellore Mutiny was a signal that dissent against the British was beginning to gain hold.

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Drawings from India

July in the spotlight

The nights will slowly get longer again, bringing the first dark skies of summer. This month’s high point will be seeing Saturn.

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Days of Corona

With the world going through a pandemic, you must have a lot of questions about the virus that has everyone shaken up. Here’s an answer for you.

Like a champ

Maxi could never replace Sheena in Tej’s heart, for, Sheena had been his first best friend. But, was this the right time to make changes?

Zai Whitaker on ‘Zyrus the Virus’, her latest e-book on the pandemic

Writer and naturalist Zai Whitaker on her latest e-book Zyrus the Virus, and thinking up various virus-related words during lockdown

Uninvited guests

Our holidays had begun and we were excited. But our first meal at the home stay turned out to be super sinister.

A board game that teaches kids about coronavirus protocols

A 10-year-old in a Delhi school developed a board game around COVID-19 and it’s now available online

Garuda is born

Finally Vinata’s second son appears and begins to work towards releasing his mother from slavery

The man who spotted the 'Tiger' in the lab

The wild nature of the element fluorine earned it the nickname of being the tiger of chemistry. It has been reasonably tamed by now and put to a myriad uses, but it wasn’t always the case. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at fluorine and Frenchman Henri Moisson, the one who first isolated it...

Six and crawling

Can you believe it? Half-a-dozen legs just to run around and get things done. Check out these amazing insects.

Dragon or dog?

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

Spice it up with ginger

This tropical spice is said to have many medicinal benefits. No wonder it is popular in the kitchen. Check out how this root has found its way into history.

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Not cool!

Words can hurt. And, after it is said it cannot be passed off as something funny. Because it is not. What you can do is take a stand.

Back under the sun

We can finally go outside again (terms and conditions apply of course). Here are some games my friends and I play, which fit well into the rules of the ‘new normal’.

The mission failed, the idea didn’t

Cosmos 1 would have become the world’s first solar sail spacecraft in orbit had it been successful following its launch on June 21, 2005. It didn’t, however, as it plunged into the sea. A.S.Ganesh tells you how the idea lives on even after this mission failed...

Slip of the leash

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

Sand dunes and royal pyramids

Sudan is home to diverse people, cultures, cuisines, and more pyramids than Egypt.

Kiran, a Coimbatore-based design student won the ‘D’Source Corona Design Challenge for her book, ‘Hope’

Her work was selected out of 1254 entries from over 2000 participants from 52 countries

How busy dads from Kerala have made the most of the lockdown to spend time in the company of their children

These dads cruising the fast lanes due to their professional engagements got to spend some quality time with their children thanks to the lockdown keeping them at home. June 21 is Father’s Day...

With schools still shut, children rediscover the joys of playing outdoors

The no-school situation, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, is allowing children to get familiar the joys of playing in the open

Summer with the Goldies: Eerie chore

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

Tower of strength

Want to know more about giraffes? Read on...

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