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Number Theory

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the increasing count of children that Hindus are being exhorted to have

Haute Baby Couture

There is a sartorial baby boom and designers are living up to it

Nature and Nurture

Genes play as important a role in a child’s learning as environmental factors

American Bias

Children as young as seven and 10 empathise with and feel differently towards ‘other’ kids

Emerging Readership

Rural library initiatives take books to children who had no access to them

Beastly Tales from Cover to Cover

The assumption that all animal stories are children’s stories is an odd one. Two recent books, by Nilanjana Roy and Musharraf and Michelle Farooqi, remind us that many of our best-loved stories that feature animals have engaged children as much as they have intrigued adult readers

Active Fatherhood

A new study finds that dads who sleep near their children experience a drop in testosterone

The Underfed and the Unscrupulous

Raichur district of Karnataka has some of India’s worst statistics on malnourished children. It is hard to tell which is the worse scandal: the lack of nutrition here or the money being made off it

Just Another India Story

A deadly epidemic of encephalitis has broken out in eastern Uttar Pradesh. And the government remains clueless about its gravity

I am Kalam

An appealing film, but the ‘Kalam’ angle seems a forced search for political significance

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