Most of us grew up with very western images in nursery rhymes—a big manor with a tiny blond baby asleep in the cot and stars twinkling outside, or a little girl in polka-dotted dress, perched upon a ...

“Mother works away all day… Through the week and all Sunday… She always has something to do… She always has some task in view… She bears the burden all alone…” – Mother, by Kamla Bhasin. In the early ...

Vinoth Chandar has music in his blood. Through the 1980s and 90s, his father Chandrabose had been a music composer in Tamil Nadu’s film industry. He had worked in over 250 movies, including those ...

Vega Tamotia, the chirpy actress from kids’ flick Pasanga, is all set to entertain children once again. She’s producing Ghotu Motu Ki Toli, a series of Indian ...

It's goodbye to Baa Baa Black Sheep and Humpty Dumpty for children in primary schools in a central Indian state. The Madhya Pradesh government has banned the teaching of English nursery rhymes in ...

Goosey Goosey Gander may be about religious persecution, while Lucy Locket is about 18th Century prostitutes, writes Clemency Burton-Hill. Plague, medieval taxes, religious persecution, prostitution: ...