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Chandamama, Oct 2006 Clink! Clunk! What was this falling out of the sky? Little shiny pieces of metal, yellow like the sun. Pooja picked up one of them. ‘Wow!,’ she thought. ‘this is gold! Its raining Gold! A shower like […]

Chandamama, April 2006 Sugandhi was a peculiar young girl. Ever since she was an infant she would always want to know how something smelt. Whether it was a flower, something on her dinner plate or even her own clothes she […]

Chandamama, Nov 2007 At six, Venkat felt that he was such a lucky boy. He had two of the best friends anyone could have : Karu, who whom he adored was only a few years elder than him and Shanti his […]

Chandamama, Sept 2007 Guni was only ten inches tall and for a Ganesh idol that was not really that much. Yet it took quite a few days to make him. First the natural clay powder from Gujarat was mixed into […]

Chandamama It was the season to feel alone again. Divya was an only child and for most of the time she was fine with that but there were some occasions when she sorely missed having a brother. Rakshabandhan was one […]

This time in Goa, I did something that I have never done in my life. I bathed an elephant. The Sahakari spice plantation in South Goa offers this unique experience. Ganga, the seventeen-year-old elephant, was born in the forests of […]

Chandamama, Mar 2005 Mira was only five years old when she first identified a bird correctly. The bright yellow body and the black streak through its eye. She had heard her father name it several times –  a golden oriole. […]