Writer and novelist, Amish Tripathi, was our guest this time in 'The Slow Interview with Neelesh Misra'. The bestselling author Amish Tripathi is well known for his novels The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Scion of Ikshvaku ,Sita: Warrior of Mithila and is due for the launch of his next book Raavan : Enemy of Aryavarta . During the interview, he had a candid conversation with Neelesh Misra where he discussed his journey about his humble family background, studies, and how different parts of India and its glorious history inspire him in different ways.

Open up your hearts to regional cuisine, use Diwali as an occasion to learn more about traditional recipes and try making few in your kitchens

Teachers of the Composite Vidyalaya in Karpiya Vidyalaya in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, have created gardens in their schools with rare plants and herbs that are usually found in the pages of the textbooks. They say this has made learning so much more exciting.

An assistant teacher in a government composite school in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, embeds bluetooth in puppets, and uses them to teach her students. A number of children who went only to madrasa now study at the school.

Manmohan Singh works at a gurudwara in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and spends a large part of his earnings in educating under-privileged children. His one such ‘classroom’ is under an open sky, next to the railway track where three college students teach children of daily wage labourers. All the expenses are borne by Manmohan and his wife Rajvinder Kaur.

Miyawaki planting is unfit for non moist locations. What could be acceptable in moist temperate, sub tropical or island ecologies like Japan and similar latitudes would be most unwise in other latitudes, specially tropics, where water is climatically scarce or available unevenly over the year.