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Childhood

  • What explains the rapid growth in myopia?

    What explains the rapid growth in myopia?

    Andrew Herbert, The Conversation
    · Jun 01, 2024 · 10:00 pm
  • ‘You can never replace a parent’: As world moves on, ‘new normal’ is a struggle for Covid-19 orphans

    ‘You can never replace a parent’: As world moves on, ‘new normal’ is a struggle for Covid-19 orphans

    Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
    · Jun 17, 2023 · 07:30 pm
  • Readers’ comments: Scroll.in article on childhood at railway quarters brought back old memories

    Readers’ comments: Scroll.in article on childhood at railway quarters brought back old memories

    Scroll
    · May 24, 2022 · 03:30 pm
  • Perumal Murugan: ‘How I, descended from a legacy of illiteracy, become a writer’

    Perumal Murugan: ‘How I, descended from a legacy of illiteracy, become a writer’

    Perumal Murugan
    · Jan 30, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • Rising food poverty in rich countries is having lifelong effects on children

    Rising food poverty in rich countries is having lifelong effects on children

    Chris Baraniuk, Mosaic
    · Apr 14, 2019 · 02:30 pm
  • Throwback in September: five poems about being young

    Throwback in September: five poems about being young

    Rohini Kejriwal
    · Sep 03, 2017 · 07:00 am
  • Reading with my father, from my childhood till the time the end was near for him

    Reading with my father, from my childhood till the time the end was near for him

    Amrita Tripathi
    · Aug 05, 2017 · 12:30 pm
  • Indian children have become hamsters on treadmills – it’s time to take it one step at a time

    Indian children have become hamsters on treadmills – it’s time to take it one step at a time

    Meera Rajagopalan
    · Jun 12, 2017 · 03:49 pm
  • Watch: Virtual reality shows what our first moments after birth might look like

    Watch: Virtual reality shows what our first moments after birth might look like

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 15, 2017 · 10:00 am
  • How a child suffering from Kala Azar in rural Bangladesh went on to become a renowned oncologist

    How a child suffering from Kala Azar in rural Bangladesh went on to become a renowned oncologist

    Menaka Rao
    · Nov 26, 2016 · 02:30 pm
  • How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

    How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain

    Kate Fehlhaber, Aeon
    · Oct 25, 2016 · 02:30 pm