I had a friend from school that died of a freak accident some four years ago. I was shocked and saddened. But every year even after she is dead I have wished her happy birthday on her Facebook page and sometimes, just go...

It’s lunchtime at the home of the Consul General of India in New York, Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay. A young Hindu American arrives. Her name is Suchitra Vijayan and she teaches part time in Columbia University, one of the most...

Introducing fiction to kids at an early age might be the easiest way to inculcate reading habit in kids. An article in ( enlists the importance of reading without any restriction. In our quest to introduce the right book...

What: ( Where: ( and then read in your family room, at the park, at a beach, wherever you want! When: May 15th to October 31st -- you can join at any time between these dates Why: Because YOU have the power to change a c...

Rejects the first draft of his film put together by the author, says it is not commercial enough Chetan Bhagat is never at a loss for words. But for once, the voluble author and purveyor of all things controversial, was...

Guardian is collecting stories on Steve Jobs through readers comments . Steve Jobs changed the tech world and for the better ... but people generally knew him as a selfish and self-centered person. Some stories will amaz...

Gaithersburg Elementary School has abolished homework. Instead, students are being asked to read a book for about 30 minutes a night. When Stephanie Brant came aboard as principal two years ago, she and her staff conduct...

In a city where women's public presence had been systematically erased under Taliban rule and where the years since 2001 had brought uneven and fragile progress, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school in Kabul — and her stu...

Mom, you are an eagle, gracefully flying and free, always watching me. Mom,you are a rose gentle and fragrant, looking beautiful. Mom,you are the great ocean, vast and ever-changing...

Your Brain on Fiction AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected qu...

Learning to read is not just to do with speech, but also with the ability to recognize and memorize regular patterns among the letters that make up words, according to a new study on baboons. New results show that monkey...

Volume 8 finds us in late spring, when the produce is finally cooperating and the question is no longer what to cook to stay warm but what to cook to stay light — meals that are satisfying without being heavy, that taste...

Children's literature at its best does something that adult fiction rarely attempts: it treats genuinely difficult questions — loss, fear, injustice, the search for belonging — with an honesty that adults have often trai...