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Do Schools Ignore Talents?
Learning World producer, Aurora Vélez, met Sir Ken Robinson in Paris to talk about talent, innovation and educational challenges as part of Learning World on "XXI Century Education"
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Remembering Pran : The Creator of Chacha Chaudhary
Via ABPOne of India's most successful Indian cartoonists Pran Kumar Sharma passed away on Wednesday. Pran was the man behind the famous comic series Chacha Chaudhary. Other of his famous characters...
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Bookstores in Delhi (for the Bibliophile's List)
Ritika Bhatia shares details about three bookstores that should be on every bibliophile's list - from first editions, vintage copies, old comic strips and rare, personally signed books.Via Business...
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Crossword to Open 10 stores in Tier-II Cities
Via Business StandardEven though the online shopping is a growing trend in India, the offline players like Crossword, a books retailer chain of Raheja Group, is planning an expansion in tough market...
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Making the World Fall in Love with Indian Folklore
Hema Vijay's article talks about the handmade books being produced by Tara Books and how they are making the world fall in love with Indian folklore.Via Deccan HeraldToday, if children in western...
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The Garden Library for the Migrant Communities and Neighborhoods of South Tel...
Via ArchDailyThe Garden Library for Refugees and Migrant Workers was founded in 2010 as a social-artistic urban community project. The project sees the right to a book as a fundamental human right and...
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The Leading Reading Schools of India Awards 2015
(Click on the image for a larger view)The Leading Reading Schools of India Award is an annual award established by Young India Books - India’s foremost review site of children’s books; to recognize and...
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How the #PBChamps Campaign Sparked a Monthly Reading Programme
Last year was the first time that the team from Swechha got in touch with us and expressed an interest in our annual Literacy Day campaign. Earlier this year, Josh Roberts who used to work with Swechha...
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Sharing Stories
A picture from Arthi's storytelling sessions as a Pratham Books ChampionIn the run-up to our annual collective reading campaign (One Day One Story), we stumbled across Arthi Anand Navaneeth's article...
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Turning a Taxi Into a Library/Bookstore
Our Facebook timeline threw up this lovely post about a couple who turned their taxi into a rolling library/bookstore.Via The Wall Street JournalThe husband-and-wife team of Mehdi Yazdany and Sarvenaz...
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How Did We Find Takloo?
Mala Kumar shares a little behind-the-scenes (behind-the-pages?) story about the book chosen for this year's 'One Day One Story' campaign.This is a story about Takloo. No, no, not about Takloo, the...
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Meet the Author : Radhika Bapat
Sandhya Taksale chats with Radhika Bapat - the author of 'Takloo, the Little Salt Seller'. As we gear up for the One Day One Story initiative, we learn more about Radhika and how the book Takloo came...
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Delhi Book Fair Starts Today
Wondering what to do this weekend? The folks in Delhi can head to the Delhi Book Fair and get their hands on some new books.Via Business StandardFilm adaptations of books along with a graphic showcase...
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Death in Fiction
YA author Rupert Wallis talks abut why death is so important in YA fiction.Via The GuardianDeath has always lurked in some of the most moving and beautiful children's stories, but for the younger...
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Storytelling Session by the Bangalore Storytelling Society
While the folks in Delhi have the Delhi Book Fair to head to this weekend, our friends in Bangalore can head to a storytelling session being conducted by five storytellers on behalf of the Bangalore...
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Play to Learn : A Workshop for Teachers
Pratham Books is conducting a workshop for teachers at this year's JUMPSTART (Delhi).26th August, 9.30am-12.30pmThis is the one thing that we don’t have to learn. This is the one thing that we all have...
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Dastan Alice Ki
Via livemintWith white rabbits that talk, caterpillars that smoke the hookah and a Queen of Hearts, writer Lewis Carroll knew better than anyone perhaps that the imagination has no restrictions. Well...
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How Wattpad Made Reading a Craze
Hazal Kirci explains how Wattpad transformed her and her sisters’ lives, and made reading a craze.Via The GuardianWattpad is a global sensation in young adult literature. And I fell for it hard.In my...
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Winners All!
Some Saturdays are just too hot to handle!Aug 23, 2014 was one of those. Not one but two of our most beloved authors got the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for their contribution to children's literature!...
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The Library With No Members
Via The HinduThe Anna Centenary Library, established in 2010, has since been threatened by closure, by conversion into a hospital, and by use of its public space and auditorium for unrelated activities...
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