25th March 2024 to 30th March 2024

World This Week

The world this week is an attempt to provide worldly news to kids once a week. The idea behind this is to make them get started on reading world news but it’s written in a child friendly manner and explains some concepts too

CWG 2022: Meet India’s youngest athlete at the Commonwealth Games

14-year-old squash player, Anahat Singh, is the youngest Indian to be participating in the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Anahat is the first sportswoman to win the British Junior Squash Open in 2019 and US Junior Squash Open in 2021. The top-ranked player in the U-15 category in India and Asia has also qualified for the World Juniors Squash Championships 2022 in Nancy, France, making her the youngest Indian to feature in the tournament. Anahat was selected for the Indian team following her impressive run in the national selection trials. Speaking about her selection ahead of the start of the Birmingham Games,…

Animation: Mattel and Netflix to premier animated series ‘Deepa and Anoop’ soon

A multinational toy company Mattel has announced that its all-new animated children’s series ‘Deepa and Anoop’ will debut on OTT platform Netflix on August 16, 2022. Created by acclaimed Bollywood animator Munjal Shroff (Shortcut Safari), accomplished writer Lisa Goldman (Dragon Tales), and award-winning producer Heather Kenyon (Doki adventures), ‘Deepa and Anoop’ is Mattel television’s first animated series based on original intellectual property. The colorful, music-driven series follows the adventures of seven-year-old Deepa and her best friend Anoop, a half-ton, color-changing baby elephant. The dynamic duo makes everything bigger, grander, and more wonderful for the guests at her Indian family’s Mango…

10 Simple Habits That Will Instantly Boost Your Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is confidence in one’s own worth or abilities, self-respect. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs about oneself as well as emotional states, such as triumph, despair, pride, and shame. Check out some simple tricks that can instantly improve your self-esteem. • Being optimistic is good for you. It is important for emotional well-being, better relationships, and protection against adverse events.• Choose a subject and learn something new every day step by step. It doesn’t have to be easy but for sure interesting.• A Healthy mind resides in a healthy body. Physical fitness is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.• If…

Happy Guru Purnima 2022

Guru and God both appear before me. To whom should I prostrate? I bow before the Guru who introduced God to me – Kabir The festival originated from the Buddhist tradition of commemorating Gautam Buddha’s first sermon to his first five disciples in Uttar Pradesh’s Sarnath. Gradually, Hindus and Jains also started observing this festival to pay respects to their teachers. This year, Guru Purnima is being celebrated today, on Wednesday, 13th July 2022. On Guru Purnima, we celebrate the special bond between students and teachers. Teachers are the ones who motivate the students towards a better life. Through their…

Happy World Music Day

“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” – Michael Jackson The Fete de la Musique, also known in English as Music Day, Make Music Day, or World Music Day, is an annual music celebration that takes place on 21 June. The day is all about celebrating music where citizens and residents are urged to play music outside in their neighbourhoods or in public places and parks. Here, a few Indian artists share their views on World Music Day about how important it is…