A 16-Year-Old Tribal Girl From MP Is Going To An Oxford School To Learn English

16-year-old Asha Gond is a tribal girl from a little known village called Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. When she swings by on her skateboard, you’d be hard pressed to re...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

Why An IIT Graduate Left His Cushy Job Abroad To Set Up Digital Classrooms In Rural Bihar

When Pramod Kumar, who belongs to a small village in Bihar, decided to prepare for engineering exams, he was struck by the lack of educational resources like textbooks in r...

85-Year-Old Man Breaks Marathon Record

Ed Whitlock, 85, is a new world record holder after the English-born Canadian finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in under four hours last Sunday. He ran the fastest i...

IIT Students Come Together To Set Up A Library For 250 Village Kids

As a child, many of us liked to curl up in a corner with a nice, big book in our hands and just be lost in that world for hours on end. Just like us, there are children acr...

Money Earned From US Sales Of “Mein Kampf” Will Now Go To Holocaust Survivors

Soon American readers eager to peruse Adolf Hitler’s manifesto will be donating money to Holocaust survivors.
The US publisher of Hitler’s Mein Kampf has d...

Kaleidoscope - An Enduring Romance

A play about marital infidelity has been winning fans over the years, instead of shocking conservative Indians. Bernard Slade’s Tony award-winning romantic comedy Sam...

Two Princeton Students Are Helping Hundreds Of Indians Learn English For Free Using Mobile Phones

A basic mobile phone can become a tool of learning, thanks to Vaasvi Goyal and Kasturi Shah’s free English teaching service:
Hello, Seekho
An eight-year-ol...

Kaleidoscope - Of Human Bondage

In India, where a large section of the population is vegetarian, the hullabaloo over a women refusing to eat meat would seem excessive, but in, South Korean writer Han Kang...