All great things come in small packages and on meeting Tejaswini Manogna, the adage is truly personified. All of 15 years, this talented young prodigy is a force to reckon with. This Hyderabadi teenager, who was recently awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award and honoured by the President, has an endless list of achievements to her credit, yet is as humble as they come.

Reams have been written about how much time teens spend online and on various social networking sites. But contrary to popular perception, youngsters today aren’t using their blogs, personal websites and networking sites just to interact and have fun. The more enterprising ones are also using them to get the kind of work opportunities they want in the future, as well as making some spare cash along the way.

It won’t be an exaggeration, if we say that Youtube is the new-age teacher for net-savvy youngsters who love to sleep, eat and study in front of their PCs. From beauty tips to fitness mantras, guitar lessons, dance moves or cool sports, Youtube has everything for everyone.

Learning to whip up chicken curry or vegetable pulav is passé for Chennai’s young girls. Instead with summer here, they have enrolled for specialised classes in baking, chocolate making and even signed up to learn Mexican and Chinese cuisine.

While common teen parenting advice is all about building boundaries and drawing lines — teens seem to get a rush from living on the edge of those lines and scaling up and over those boundaries into the party zone. Bending the rules is their sport of choice — whether it is besting age restrictions at pubs or movie theatres or stretching a curfew to accommodate some fun. 

Album: Midnight of the Century  : It’s been a long time since a post-punk band of this calibre has cast a clanging reverb over the room. Blacklist are from Brooklyn, New York — and they are James Minor on guitar, Glenn Maryansky on drums, Ryan Rayhill on bass and front man, vocalist and all

There’s no rest for the weary. Even as a wave of Class 12 students finish with their board exams, they face the prospect of entrance exams for professional courses. Whether it’s the IITs, engineering, medical or fashion design colleges, students are back to the grind. Assisting them in their

A summer job can be great if you get to pick up some spare cash and a little valuable experience along the way. But not all teens are so lucky. Youngsters narrate their worst job experiences:

I played this prank way back when I was in class 10 in school. It was Diwali and some naughty students of another section had put a firecracker in the washroom which had a really long fuse. It was so long that it took nearly two periods to reach the end and detonate. Two of my friends got caught

With summer vacations on, the latest craze among GenY seems to be go-karting. And it is catching on like wild fire. So, when Rishi Raj returned to the capital from Mumbai after his post-Board vacations last year, he was already hooked on to go-karting. A minor, he couldn’t legally drive a car on the roads, but he required a medium to satiate his need for speed and karting provided him with just that. A frequenter at the go-karting tracks in