I cite these immortal lines from Jagindranath Sarkar's 'Hashikhushi,' published back in 1897. It was where the author included a group of popular folk rhymes, including a few of his own. This verse, ...

Nursery rhymes are a part of everyday life and passed down the generations. Yet it is remarkable how little we know of their origins. Famed children's tune Humpty Dumpty was recently the centre of a ...

Sometimes friends ask me what drew me to poetry, what first compelled me to write poems? And my answer is two-fold: jump rope tunes and nursery rhymes. These oral forms of poetry fostered my love of ...

What's a double-album of children's songs doing on a page like this? Well, it's a set that Jon Boden, who won the folk singer of the year award last week, described as "light years ahead of other kids ...

“Jack and Jill”, which used to seem like an innocent frolic, is actually about France’s Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In 1793, they were guillotined. These dark origins seem to be so for other ...