The venue was the same, the Jungle Bungle area of Century Mall which was bustling with eager kids, parents, grandparents and the odd curious onlookers eagerly awaiting the arrival of Usha Uthup and ...

CHENNAI: Welcome to the jungle, I’m Karadi the bear. Stories and adventures with you, I will share…’ For a whole generation that grew up listening to Karadi Tales, these lyrics instantly conjure up ...

C.P. Viswanath (left), Shobha and Narayan Parasuram with Karadi the bear.(Karadi Tales) Once upon a time, long before the pandemic drove adults up the wall as they tried to keep children occupied, ...

Parents are known to give their children a budget to spend in a bookstore, where children are given the freedom to pick books of their choice. Parents are known to give their children a budget to ...

A fuzzy brown bear with twinkling eyes and a graying goatee, wearing an olive muffler and jaunty Nehru cap, peeks at me from beneath a bright red fire hydrant mounted on the mottled walls of the ...