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Making Churches Safe for Children

With the Catholic Church being plagued with child abuse charges in various countries, bishops in India are drawing up procedures to tackle such scandals if and when they happen.

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6 May 2010 | BY Avantika Bhuyan
The ICC Rehabilitation Programme

As part of its ‘Cricket for Children’ initiative, the International Cricket Council trained 24 children, ‘including child soldiers, aged 16-18’ for a week. Of the group, 18 were child soldiers.

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7 Apr 2010 | BY Rahul Bhatia
Hum Do, Hamara Ek

Single-child families are increasingly becoming the norm in urban India.

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2 Apr 2010 | BY Pramila N. Phatarphekar
Canvas for Kids

Artists are creating art specially for kids as young as two months old, and they can’t keep up with the demand.

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10 Mar 2010 | BY Avantika Bhuyan
When Fantasy Meets Reality

How will today’s children learn to live in their own world when all they read about are heroes who have magical powers to fight evil forces?

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2 Mar 2010 | BY Sandipan Deb
“Kids at age 14 are like old men post 40”

Even as weight-loss surgery turns fashionable, Dr Dhuper is trying to treat obesity before the need arises.

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3 Feb 2010 | BY Pramila N. Phatarphekar
Maggots in the Mind

Khalid, the protagonist, after over a year of being thrown into an isolation cell at Guantanamo.

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23 Dec 2009
Where No Healing Is Ever Enough

Nominated for a children’s book prize, Anna Perera’s story of a Guantanamo inmate wrenches the heart with its stark realism.

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23 Dec 2009 | BY Elizabeth Kuruvilla
96,942 Kids and Counting

As many as 96,942 children tested positive for Aids over the last three years in India.

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17 Dec 2009 | BY Pallavi Polanki
If There’s a Will, There’s a Market

An enterprising couple has come up with a way to make children more generous with the gifts they receive.

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25 Nov 2009 | BY Rahul Bhatia
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