by Amrita Priya | Mar 14, 2022
(March 14, 2022) Not many of us could have envisioned Ellen DeGeneres learning to make puttu, Kerala’s breakfast dish. But this did happen in 2016, when the American talk show host stood smilingly beside her tutor, the very earnest Chef Nihal Raj or...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 5, 2022
(March 5, 2022) A tabla gifted to his father by a friend caught Truptraj Pandya’s eye even before he had learned to walk. The instrument lay unused in a corner of the house. By the time he was 15 months old, he was already playing it, showing, even then, a...
by Charu Thakur | Feb 22, 2022
(February 22, 2022) “Pristine water, a school of colourful fishes swimming in synchronicity, a jellyfish floating away to the surface, and a dugong resting in water,” are some of eight-year-old Indian scuba diver and eco-crusader Tharaagai Aarathana’s...
by Vikram Sharma | Feb 1, 2022
(February 1, 2022) Standing stop a mountain peak, covered with a blanket of clouds is a fantasy for children. Virat Chandra Telukunta is no different. His favourite cartoon show — Doraemon – a fictitious character in Japanese manga would transport him to the...
by Charu Thakur | Jan 25, 2022
(January 25, 2022) Picture this: A sprightly three-year-old watches his father do yoga in his Sevenoaks home at Kent. Fascinated, he starts to emulate his father, and learns the basics, promptly. Cut to 2021, the 11-year-old brushes shoulders with British...
