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Tilgul ghya, god god bola — and a kite that never quite gets off the ground.

A gudi raised at child height, and the annual negotiation over the bitter neem.

Shadu clay under small fingernails, an aarti sung slightly out of time, and a visarjan in a bucket.

A packing list that assumes things will go wrong, and five tiffins that still taste good at ten in the morning.

Pushing a pencil too early is one of the few things in early education that can genuinely set a child back.

Age on 1st June decides it, mostly. Here is the guide — and what to do when your child falls right on the line.

Seven things that genuinely matter — and four that parents worry about far more than they need to.

Almost every child does it. Here is roughly how long it lasts, what helps, and the one thing that reliably makes it worse.