In the summer of 2000, at the end of a fun-filled four-day children’s theatre camp in Kochi organised by Lokadharmi Centre for Theatre, a participant asked its facilitator, Lokadharmi’s artistic director and eminent dramaturg Chandradasan why he could not make the camp a regular feature. Taken by surprise, Chandradasan readily replied that he would be […]
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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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A rattle tumbler by Happie Hive | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Earlier this year, Sindhiya Ravi, a Coimbatore-based mother was looking for eco-friendly party favours for her son Ved’s third birthday party. “The gifting market for children is currently trending with made-in-China products that are quirky, but made of plastic, and have a short shelf […]
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An illustration of a couple with their newborn | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto If you are expecting a baby, or know someone who is due, rather than shower them with flowers this Mother’s Day, gift them a newborn care class. A test is required for everything from graduating from school/college to learning how to drive […]
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Meet the Indian designers doing away with cramped classrooms and dull walls and prioritising schools with flexible furniture, collaborative spaces, and interactive elements Source link
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In the recent film Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway, actor Rani Mukerji — who plays Debika Chatterjee, a young mother of two living in Norway — is closely tracked by child welfare officials in Stavanger for weeks. She is then declared an unfit mother. Parenting practices she holds dear — bed-sharing, feeding by hand, keeping her children close […]
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Cigarette butts have no place in a nursery. The Vipul brothers disagree. They have been making toys from trashed cigarette butts under Code Effort since 2018. Kickstarted by Naman Gupta and his elder brother Vipul, the Uttar Pradesh-based enterprise recycles cigarette butts into fluffy soft toys, stationery, home decor, etc. “The tobacco is decomposed using […]
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Move over kids, pets are here to stay! With more and more millennials and Gen Z folks eschewing or delaying having children, pets are making themselves at home. According to Statista, an online platform specialising in market and consumer data, the population of pet dogs in India was about 19.5 million in 2018. But then […]
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Children participating in a workshop of Birds of a Feather from Delhi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The inaugural edition of the Vizag Junior Theatre Fest is being organised by the LitLantern for Culture and Literature Welfare Society on January 21 and 22 at VMRDA Children’s Arena in Visakhapatnam. Planned for children between the ages […]
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“It is hard work being a woman and I say work because being a woman means working. Your worth is always decided by your ability to do certain things.” | Photo Credit: Illustration by Priya Sebastian “Have you heard about the cow who kept losing her calves?” Phuphee asked. “No,” I said. “What happened to […]
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