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Last year, Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts, Vidyasagar School Chennai and Duckbill Books, ran a contest for authors to write children’s books about kids with special needs. Four books were chosen — and the first two stories for kids are 

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been dreaming of kids’ room decor that doesn’t elicit a gag reflex. After all, we adults have to live within these walls, and an expanse of pink unicorns, glitter rainbows, Spiderman, or — God 

The first thing you notice about PodSquad is the packaging. The box, with it’s cute cartoon doodles and bright (but not the overused primary) colour palette looks slick. It looks like a box full of activities for kids that a 

Kids clothes are a mess of cleverly marketed cartoon characters or superheroes, or they’re a disappointing mélange of frills, pink, and glitter. Or — and this is where it goes from annoying to bizarre — sometimes they look like (tacky) mini-adult clothes. 

We have to admit — and don’t judge us — Mumbai seems a little less exciting when the Obataimu team takes its annual hiatus. But after a successful stint in Paris last year, Noorie and the rest of the crew 

It’s not enough of a story to warrant a lengthy review, but it’s also a book too good to ignore. Around the World in 80 Puzzles is a book full of puzzle activities for kids. The games in it are designed 

If there’s one thing The Swaddle team loves, it’s eating. Cooking, for us, is really just a means of arriving at the main event. Until we met Anjali Pathak, the chef behind Flavour Diaries, Mumbai’s latest culinary lessons for at-home 

An illustrated retelling of the story of Diwali. A lesson about the phases of the moon that ends in an Oreo snack. A jigsaw puzzle featuring the animal kingdom in the middle of the jungle. These are just some of 

There was a different kind of buzz at the Thomson Reuters office last Wednesday. Besides the bright, lingering Diwali decor, the conference room was decked out to welcome 30 excited girls from the Udaan programme of Apne Aap Women’s Collective. Udaan aims to prevent second-generation prostitution 

We’re huge fans of learning through play. Arts and crafts, puzzles and experiments are all hands-on educational activities for kids that make new ideas exciting and the “lessons” stick. Bazinga Box is a start-up that uses all of these —  puzzles, games, toys, stories, 

Let’s get down and dirty. Or DIRT-y, to be precise. DIRT is the latest thing to love, and while unfortunately it’s only in Mumbai right now, I have hopes of seeing similar projects pop up in other metros in the 

We’ve all had the same thought: why can’t someone take [insert traditional Indian clothing/craft/handiwork] and reinterpret it for a more modern aesthetic?  If you’ve ever had this thought about the traditional leather jutti, then Fizzy Goblet, based in Noida, has 

When we visited the Great Food Show held in February in Mumbai, we weren’t looking to stock our pickle collection. But we couldn’t resist stopping by Goosebumps Pickles’ table when we heard they stocked an olive and jalapeno variety. We 

We’re suckers for homegrown talent, and we found just that in Grain. Art school graduate Avinash Bhalerao is the man behind Grain, a new leather brand that blends of form and function, while satisfying all our vague preferences about buying 

People are complex; we don’t always know what we want, don’t always know what to do, don’t always know what we feel. These concepts aren’t particularly easy for adults to grasp or explain, let alone children. That is, unless you’re 

TWG Tea has grand ambitions. It labels its wares as “the finest teas of the world,” and while we wouldn’t call it the king of all teas, it certainly has a royal richness. There’s no dearth of options in choosing