Chennai| Buy stories by the box at this book fair

Chennai| Buy stories by the box at this book fair

Books by the box at the Book Tale fair | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sitting by the window and sipping a warm cup of coffee while basking in the warm early morning sunshine, flipping the pages gently. What was once filled with messy annotations showcasing varied colors of ink has now transformed into the bright […]

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Hyderabad’s Food4Thought Foundation has helped establish over 600 libraries across India; targets 1000 by 2025

Hyderabad’s Food4Thought Foundation has helped establish over 600 libraries across India; targets 1000 by 2025

A library was set up at a school in Nongshken, Meghalaya, with the help of Food4Thought Foundation | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “We help connect idle books to hungry minds,” reads a statement on the website of Hyderabad-based Food4Thought Foundation (food4thoughtfoundation.org). Formed in 2015 as a bridge connecting individuals who want to donate books idling […]

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Engaging Indian books on regional cuisine for your child’s library

Engaging Indian books on regional cuisine for your child’s library

A for appam, B for bonda, and C for chaat…If we had to teach our children the ABCs of food, I’d rather opt for something like this and not A for asparagus, B for burger and C for cookie. As parents and teachers introduce books about food to children, more often than not, they borrow […]

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“Nothing compares to Chennai”: Kapil Dev on his favourite cricket ground

“Nothing compares to Chennai”: Kapil Dev on his favourite cricket ground

Kapil Dev releasing the book ‘Memoirs of a Foodie’ written by Ramaa Shankar at an event hosted by the Duchess club. | Photo Credit: S R Ragunathan “I’m not a good writer. But there’s always somebody who writes that you admire, and they become your hero.”  When World Cup-winning former Team India cricket captain Kapil […]

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Chennai’s parks: Here’s where to go to read, write, and create art

Chennai’s parks: Here’s where to go to read, write, and create art

On Sunday evening, I make my way past families sitting under the trees at Gandhi Mandapam, children running around the lawns, and people on benches immersed in their phones to a small group engrossed in their books. This is not a unfamiliar sight as most green spaces across the city are becoming havens for the […]

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Books on cricket | 11 for the pitch happy

Books on cricket | 11 for the pitch happy

There has to be a cut-off, or we will spend all our time discussing Cardus and Arlott, Fingleton and Robinson and the incomparable C.L.R. James. It will leave out books by Ian Peebles, Arthur Mailey, Robertson-Glasgow, Bill O’Reilly, Don Bradman, J.M. Kilburn, Ronald Mason, Alan Ross, Jim Laker, all of whom have written with wit […]

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Why toy libraries are sustainable and cost-effective for parents

Why toy libraries are sustainable and cost-effective for parents

In mid-2020, Bengaluru-based Vikram Madhusudhan found his home, and that of his friends’, cluttered with toys but their children glued to screens. The father of a 2.5-year-old son then, he decided to quit his job as a quality manager at Boeing to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the child-learning space. Two years later, Vikram with […]

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