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’Sorry’ for the past
From the late 1800s to 1969, over a lakh Indigenous Australian children were taken away forcibly from their families. This was the “Stolen Generation”.



WORLD OF SCIENCE
Measuring Earth
How would you measure the circumference of the Earth?

For a closer walk with nature
Sitting in a classroom and learning from a textbook hardly compares with the first hand information you can get by relating with nature.

Machines in our lives
Very often we find our five senses hooked on to machines…at the same time!

Lion on the road
The chakkada is as much a symbol of Gujarat as is the lion in the Gir.

Tribute to a conqueror
Sir Edmund Hillary died on January 11, 2008. He and Tenzing Norgay were the first two to set foot on the hitherto unconquered peak in the Himalayas.The New Zealand Post Office honoured Hillary in 2003, by issuing a stamp to mark the 50th ...

Techie Taffy
Do you love train journeys? They can be exciting, isn’t it? Railways the world over are today rather taken for granted. They seem to just be there wherever we go, but they have a rich history and its fun to know more about them. Take a trip ...
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