is producing a one-act play in Hindi called "Inspector Matadin Chand Par". It is a rip-roaring satire by one of Hindi’s best-known satirists - Shri Harishankar Parsai. It narrates the story of how the police on Moon are...

One of the popular questions on ( is – What did Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other famous people do between the ages of 10-22. Answers are interesting. When most children and teens are busy watching TV shows and...

IF all goes according to plan, I’ll turn 44 soon after this column appears. So far in my adult life, I’ve never managed to grasp a decade’s main point until long after it was over. It turns out that I wasn’t supposed to...

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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...

After writing three books, has the writing taken on a new role, has it become a more creative thing for you or are you still focused solely on the philosophy? For me my stories have a core philosophy, the story is only t...

Book of the month : Paris Wife by Paula McLain Summer season was heralded by a hot discussion on the book of the month, ‘Paris Wife’. The book’s theme is the joys, trials and tribulations shared by Ernest Hemingway and h...

Silk Road Rising, the Chicago-based theater company dedicated to producing works that center South Asian, Middle Eastern, and other Asian and Asian-American perspectives and stories, presented a staged reading of Confere...

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Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Chai, Chat with Books" is a small group of eight ladies who share their passion for reading over a cup of tea and lots of chaat/snacks. Our book club meeting is a time away from the daily grind of life...

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...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, whose novels have mapped the interior lives of Indian and Indian-American women with a precision that has won her millions of readers across languages and continents, spoke in an interview abo...

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A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found. That small change involves making specific references to print in books w...

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...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, legendary mergers-and-acquisition attorney Joe Flom, computer pioneer Bill Joy: What is it about these people that enabled them to achieve such remarkable success? The answer, Malcolm Gladwe...