Have you always wondered how food items acquire their unique names? Read on to find out and prepare for your mouth to water!
In a country with as many cuisines as India, there are multiple foods, sweets and drinks that are named after the place they originate from. Have you tasted a Mysore bonda? Or perhaps Hyderabadi biryani?
Just like in India, there are foods across the world that are named after their countries or cities. The food website Delish.com has the stories behind some of your favourite dishes.
It might just look like a sandstone monolith, but for the Anangu people, it is sacred. Learn about the world-famous Uluru rock in Australia.
Rising dramatically out of the desert, is a large sandstone rock formation known as the Uluru or the Ayres Rock. It is situated in Central Australia, within the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park.
Uluru is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Besides Uluru, another attraction at the Park is the Kata Tjuta, a group of large rock formation also known as the Olgas.
Click on the red hotspots to learn more about this unique rock formation.
Take a trip down memory lane and re-discover the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation…
The past is always fascinating. Travelling back in time, discovering places and thinking about the people who lived there. This week, let’s take a trip to the Indus Valley Civilization.
It was an ancient civilization located in what is today, Pakistan and northwest India, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River.
Farming settlements began around 4,000 BCE.
First signs of urbanisation appeared around 3,000 BCE.
Many towns and cities were established by 2,600 BCE.
At its peak between 2,500 and 2,000 BCE.
Two cities have been excavated – Mohenjo-Daro on the lower Indus, and Harappa, further upstream.
They lived a highly developed city life. Most houses had wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate underground drainage system. The social conditions of the citizens were comparable to those in Sumeria and superior to the contemporary Babylonians and Egyptians. The cities displayed a well-planned urbanisation system.
Here are some things that belong the the ancient civilisation. Solve these shuffle puzzles to get a glimpse of them
The Great Bath: Located in Mohenjo-daro, it is one of the well-known structures among the ruins of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization at Mohenjo-daro in Sindh, Pakistan. It is called the “earliest public water tank of the ancient world”.
Pasupathi seal: It depicts a seated figure that is possibly tricephalic (having three heads). The man has a horned headdress and is surrounded by animals. He may represent a horned deity. It is debated to be one of the earliest depictions of the Hindu god Shiva (“Pashupati”, meaning “lord of animals”, is one of Shiva’s epithets) or Rudra.
Priest king statue: It was debated that there was no single ruler, but several cities like Mohenjo-daro had a separate ruler, Harappa and another, and so on. The civilization was thought to be run by priests, which researchers believe, explain the existence of the statue.
Action, comedy, and drama are some types of plays. If you were to act in a play which one would suit you best? Take this personality quiz to find out.
We love watching movies and reading books. But do you know that stories from books can also be made into plays and you can watch them at a theatre? Plays are shorter than movies and it’s live.
Answer these questions to see which play could star in.
Get started on your writing with these tips. To begin with let’s see how to write an anecdote.
Something interesting, amusing or inspiring happens around us all the time. It could be a minor incident in our lives, but it could teach us a lesson or provide a good laugh when narrated. It could even be something that was frightening at the time and made us realise what situations we should avoid getting into.
When we tell someone about this incident we are relating an anecdote to them.
An anecdote: may be inspiring; heart-warming; funny; scary; or a brief story of something strange that happened.
It is usually a true story, but when you write it, you could add some spice to it to make it more interesting for the reader. (For example, instead of just saying it was late in the evening, describe how the street lights were flickering or they had not yet come on and it was so dark that you jumped and your heart started thumping when someone suddenly stepped out from behind a tree. Remember, when you are adding this ‘spice’, you should keep your anecdote believable. The reader should feel that whatever you are telling them could happen.
Here are some tips to make your anecdote more engrossing.
The writer is the author of Fun with Creative Writing, a series of workbooks from level 1 to 8, and has co-authored Anyone Can Write, a teachers’ resource book, both published by Foundation Books (Cambridge University Press)
What makes a book fascinating? The plot, the setting, the protagonist and quite often the antagonist. Can you guess these classic antagonists?
You may not like to come face-to-face with a villain in real-life, but quite often it’s the villain who makes a work of fiction thrilling.
After all, it can be quite tedious to read only about good and virtuous people. Many stories remain etched in our mind only because of the villain or antagonist, who may be completely wicked or turn out to be lovable.
Can you identify a few literary villains in this short quiz?
Summer has begun, and our animal and bird friends may need some care to get through the next few hot weeks. Here’s what you can do to help.
Do you feel like you’ve stepped into an oven the moment you set foot outdoors? It’s horribly hot isn’t it? But you aren’t the only one feeling the heat – your pet is too!
Let’s take a look at how you can help your pet stay cool.
Test your vocabulary with this memory game. The aim is to match the opposites. Ready? Go!
Antonyms are words that have contrasting, or opposite meanings. For example, the antonym of ‘big’ is ‘small’. Words aren’t always limited to having just one opposite word, there could be well more than one.
Here’s a quick game to see how well you know your antonyms. Match the words to their opposites.
Learning a few basic skills can help you make a difference in an emergency. Here are some tips for you.
Sprains and strains, cuts and bruises, itchy eyes and more… Most kids would not know what to do in an emergency. However, this is an important skill to learn. First Aid means to be able to administer relief in the initial crucial minutes of an accident. You could be a lifesaver.
Soft and cuddly they may seem, but they are fighters. This World Penguin Day, get to know more about them.
April 25 marks World Penguin Day, and it is around this time that these flightless birds make their annual northward migration. They move inland away from the Antarctic waters.
Penguins are actually really cool. Did you know that all of them only live in the southern hemisphere? This means you can never find them in the North Pole. They feed on the sea and their favourite foods are fish, squid, and krill. Each penguin has a unique voice, and that’s how they recognise each other.
There are about 17 different species of penguins in the world. You have probably heard of the Emperor penguin (which are also the largest type of penguins), the Galapagos penguin, the African penguin, and the rockhopper penguin, to name a few.
Here are a few more unique and perhaps lesser known penguins:
