Children's Pledge to On-line Safety
We recommend that every child accessing the Internet should adhere to the following pledge: I promise to never give my name, …
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The Emperor who Hated Schooling
Emperors too were children once. Even Mughal emperor Akbar, who has been given the title of Akbar the Great. He was more …
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A Train of Villages on the Net
Most people have fond memories of train journeys, though some have unpleasant ones of being left behind at a station, while they …
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He Can't See But He Shows The Way
As a child, he would beat up anyone who dared to call him “andha” or the blind one. Now he does not need to. Last …
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Young Peacemakers of Colombia
July 29: Ivan Vargas is only 14. But he is a messenger of peace for his country, Colombia. He and 100,000 other Colombian children …
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Hullo! My Name is Nershwn
He is eight years old and has already travelled a great distance from his original home, to Delhi. It was not a happy shift. What …
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The Black Hole of Social Weights and Measures
William James Sidis could speak five languages and read Plato in original Greek by the age of five. At eight he passed the …
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The First Dream of a Soccer Star
In 1981, Invalappil Mani Vijayan was 12 years old. He sold cold drinks at a football stadium near his home in Thrissur, Kerala, to …
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The Luckiest Men?
St Pierre was a town of some 30,000 inhabitants, lying in a mile-long, crescent-shaped strip in the Martinique Islands, in the …
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The Filmmaker
Shooting ‘Shores of Silence’, was probably more exciting than shooting a high-voltage action thriller for Mike Pandey …
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A Monster in Tokyo…
It happened one evening in May, 53 years ago, in 1947. Many people in Tokyo had switched on to the American Armed Forces Radio …
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Little Gyatsu Goes To School
As the sun rises over the hills, the birds start chirping. Nine-year-old Gyatsu knows that it is time to go to school. All his …
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