Summer is here, and schools are about to close, giving us parents the opportunity to be the sole entertainers for our little bundles of joy for a whole three months. Yippee-ki-yay! as someone would say. Needless to say I am on the lookout for wonderful things for them to do (read fun for them and […]
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T.I.L.I.I
Kids run around. They fall. They hurt themselves. All the time. My son seems to have a knack for it. When this happens in school, they’ll give me a note which explains what happened and what they did to correct it. I remember this one note years ago, as my little boy proudly displayed his […]
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I’ve written about it here and here, but here’s another article, this time by Indian Express columnist Shailaja Bajpai, where she talks of Indian television propagating harmful ways of thinking instead of doing the reverse : In all soaps, the most important entity is the Family, the most critical event, the Wedding, the central theme […]
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When it comes to music, I do think that the old-timers knew what they were doing. Classic music that can be listened to again and again; unforgettable is what I mean. I still remember coming home from school on hot afternoons and hearing the AkashVani RJ’s (did we even call them RJs back then ?) melodious, […]
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