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Apart from Christmas celebrated by Christians all over the world, and Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated by Muslims, a brief review of two other festivals more or less happening during the winter solstice. Read on ...

The Birth of Christ

What is the symbolism inherent in the story of the birth of Christ? Does it just talk about the birth of Jesus? Or does it enable us to go deeper and unravel a few of the reasons for the founding of Christianity? Read on ...

The changing face of childhood dreams

Today’s dreams are tomorrow’s reality, they say. A student of the Gopi Birla Memorial School, Walkeshwar Road, Mumbai, speaks of the changing face of dreams since the days of India's freedom struggle. Read on ...

The Day Mother raised the Flag

Senior scholar and journalist Amrita Rangasami remembers August 15, 1947. She was five. With her four siblings, she said a prayer for the freedom fighters. There were sweets and a special meal... Read on ...

When Grandma challenged British Rule

She was 15 and a supporter of Gandhi. Her father was loyal to the British and kept their flag flying atop his house. Hearing that Gandhi was coming to town, Grandma thought of switching flags... Read on ...

From Heaven To Hell

Kaz Suyeishi, an 18-year-old didn't think she would live through her ordeal, let alone be able to share her story more than half a century later. Read on ...

Joining Hands for peace, at Hiroshima

Srimanjari, a history lecturer at Delhi University, remembers her 1998 visit to Hiroshima for the peace memorial conference, on August 6, an annual feature. She was among 10,000 others who saw the desire for peace in the eyes of the hibakushas or atomic bomb survivors. Read on ...

Looking for sister in Hiroshima

Seventy-year-old Noriko remembers the day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was 14 then, and her sister was 12. Most senior students were out helping in the war effort. There was no escape. Read on ...

The Day the Bomb Fell

At 8.15 am, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On August 9, it repeated the action in Nagasaki. A record of what people went through in those two days... Read on ...

When two Voices become One

What happens when children from 'opposing sides' write a poem that starts with revengeful feelings, but ends with their coming together and speaking in one voice? Read on ...