Children loved visiting Gandhiji. A little boy who was there one day, was greatly distressed to see the way Gandhiji was dressed. Such a great man yet he doesn’t even wear a…
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The story of a squirrel
This is one of the interesting short stories from Ramayana for children. After the abduction of Sita, Lord Rama along with this army of monkey and bears, started making a bridge of…
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Meet Jadav Payeng, the man who single-handedly planted an entire forest
Jadav ‘Molai’ Payeng (born 1959), a native of the Mishing tribe of Jorhat district in Assam, is no ordinary man. After the destruction caused by the 1979 floods near his birthplace in Assam, Jadav…
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Meet the 82-year-old shepherd who built 14 ponds on a barren hill
For 82-year-old Kalmane Kamegowda, his love for the environment is quite evident from all the work he does. Kundinibetta, a hillside that he lived on was turning into a barren land. This is when…
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Shubhendu Sharma: Man who changed barren lands into fertile forests
What drives us from within is our will to be the change we want to see in the world. One such story is of a man named Shubhendu Sharma, who left his high-paying…
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Michael Jordan, basketball legend
When we think of basketball, the very first name that might come to the minds of a layman would surely be Michael Jordan. No doubt the guy was the top notch NBA…
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Penicillin, the miracle drug
On a September morning in 1928, Alexander Fleming sat at his work bench at St. Mary’s Hospital after having just returned from a vacation at The Dhoon (his country house) with his…
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“Eureka! Eureka”
Archimedes (c. 287-c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest…
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The Curies discover radium
A few days before the Christmas of 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word ‘radium’ in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had brought laboriously…
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The company of children
A beautiful post from one mother to another to-be-mother… There were days when my home used to be filled with laughter, arguments, fights and loads of mischief. Pens and books all over,…