OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

Summer holidays may mean globe-trotting tours for many. Priya Adhyaru-Majithia talks to those who prefer to do it ‘hatke se’ by going on field trips, learning Sanskrit and doing social work SHARING RESOURCES A group of eight like-minded mothers from Prahladnagar, Vastrapur and Satellite are running special holiday programmes for underprivileged children under an initiative […]

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ALL FOR LOVE OF GUJARATI

For past 20 years, NRG Jagdish Vyas has been using creative tools to preserve Gujarati language in the hearts and homes of Indian Americans. The 65-year-old recently shifted to Ahmedabad with the same mission. » Tej, 8, and Rishi, 6 – children of secondgeneration Indian-American Pritesh Vyas, an IT professional from Philadelphia — recite Asatyo […]

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PLAYING A STARRING ROLE

The Sunday Read Eleven students of a film and television institute who have bagged interesting roles in TV serials and films while still on campus thank their teacher Anwar Jamal for his guidance and encouragement Noted American writer William Arthur Ward once said, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. […]

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Mom’s stories I grew up with…

Famous personalities of the city reveal their favourite childhood tale to Priya Adhyaru-Majithia from the range of wonderful stories their mothers wove for them and how it went on to strengthen the mother-child bond Story without stops : ELA BHATT AND MIHIR BHATT EMINENT SOCIAL worker Ela Bhatt’s stories for her children did not have […]

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