Well, it's that time of the year again as we scramble to find suitable and enriching camps for our kids. Here is  a list of Summer Camps in the San Francisco Bay Area which give the kids a chance to connect with their Indian heritage. ...

There are three adults in our home – me, my husband, and my mother – and three kids. Our space can get crowded, primarily with kid stuff: impulse buys when I was a new parent, hand-me-downs that I am incapable of declining, and…gifts. It can be overwhelming.

Writes Sonia Sweet Kumar - The terms deliberate parenting and karma yoga go hand in hand. Karma yoga advises us to carry on with our work and duties, meditatively. parenting experiences have taught me that – within reason – concentrating on one activity at a time or moving through the ...

As the school year gets going, kids rarely have time to read for pleasure, so to bring out yet another magazine aimed at educating and entertaining kids seems like a fool’s errand. But literature is a passionate subject for bibliophiles, and ...

India Community Center's Teens for Others (TFO) program gives high school students in the Bay Area the opportunity to come together and participate in different community service events.  The program was ...

Upakar was founded in 1997 and was created to assist Indian Americans who require financial assistance to pursue an undergraduate degree at a U.S. based college or university.The 2010 Upakar Application Form is now available! The deadline is April 30th, so hurry.

Aarti Chandnani is the founder of Hindi Gym, an online resource for teachers and parents wanting their children to learn Hindi. The site has plenty of free worksheets, posters, e-books and board games available for download. There are also a couple of excellent workbooks available for purchase at reasonable prices. ...

Now that President Obama has declared swine flu a national emergency, I thought it made sense to put up these simple tips to help protect you. These are courtesy a chain mail from a friend via India, not the best of ...

Most of us replenish our stock of ACKs on periodic visits to India, but it is one more thing on an already long list of to-dos to be crammed into short visits that include obligatory family outings and celebratory clothes shopping. Now local distributor Desi Knowledge partners with the ACK ...

Writes Piya Mitra - All moms need to be pampered. Since usually it’s the moms doing all the pampering one day of R&R is certainly well deserved . A Spa Day is a good gift for any mom but can be quite expensive and in these tough economic times may ...