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Niranjan Narasipuram, Vishwa Kumar Narasipuram, Veda Madhurya Kowturu and Medha Vaishnavi Kowturu, aged between seven and 12, walk into the Saptaparni Cultural Centre in Hyderabad with a sense of familiarity, drawn to shelves filled with books, activity kits, and board games. “This is the team that approves the books we shortlist for Namaste Gang,” say their mothers, Visali Kopparthy and Shilpa Kowturu. Namaste Gang (thenamastegang.com) curates books for children in the age group of 0 to 10, predominantly in Telugu, with a few titles in English, Kannada, and Tamil.Visali teaches copyright and civil law at Siddhartha Law College, Vijayawada, and divides…

Bamboo chairs and wooden tables filled with art supplies and scribbles occupy the corridors of the Neighbour Gallery at Kesavadasapuram in Thiruvananthapuram, where Karu, a multidisciplinary art exhibition, is currently on. From outside, a faint sound of metal clinking from one of the exhibits syncs with the blaring horns on the road. Peaceful discussions, pleasant introductions, and artistic introspections between creators and visitors in the hallway precede a stillness inside the gallery, featuring works from artists across the country, spanning different media, from acrylic on canvas to audio-visual. The exhibition organised by Untitled Kitchen, an experimental moving collective kitchen, features…