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Rati Ramadas Girish
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Support System: As cliques go, parents are a class apart
As soon as you have a baby you are automatically enrolled into the group. If you wish to seek them out, they are everywhere.
Rati Ramadas Girish
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Who’s smarter: A questioning baby or a parent with all the answers?
A child’s million queries can make you question your own lack of curiosity.
Rati Ramadas Girish
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The pains (and pleasures) of working from home while bringing up baby
A growing child requires constant attention and answers to million questions, making it close to impossible to carve time out for work. But there are compensations...
Rati Ramadas Girish
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These innovations have made Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba in Murthal the truck drivers’ favourite since 1967
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Thriller: A serial killer is on the loose, murdering India’s famous nuclear scientists one by one
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View from Nepal: India’s reaction to new currency note betrays patronising outlook to its neighbour
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Contradictory documentary demands of CAA violate right to legal identity
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In Sambhal, Muslims allege UP police stormed booths, snatched IDs and beat up voters on polling day
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The sheer joy of bringing up baby and dog together
We have been raising two babies. One slightly ahead of the other in the learning curve.
Rati Ramadas Girish
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To get the right answer from your child, don't underestimate the power of a simple question
Some days a simple, "What did you do at school?" just doesn't cut it. So I have to dig, and prod, and coax, and cajole.
Rati Ramadas Girish
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Come rain or come shine, all seasons are playtime for children. Why not for us grown-ups?
‘It is too hot to play’, ‘it is raining outside’ – why do we insist on sheltering children from the outdoors?
Rati Ramadas Girish
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Watch: Students in Pakistan enact moments from Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding event
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Don’t be fooled, that sandbox in a children’s playground is a social minefield
Life in a playground is not all ha ha hee hee.
Rati Ramadas Girish
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Raising a child in the West is an intensely lonely affair. Not so in India
Of course it takes a village to raise a child, but even in urban India, help will always be given to those parents who ask for it.
Rati Ramadas Girish