A Bangalore-based educator has come up with a book of nursery rhymes to replace the politically incorrect, often-offensive rhymes we grew up with The English nursery rhyme may have survived for over ...

Rhyme thrives at both poles of literature. It is the material of a greeting card—“Roses are red / Violets are blue / Sugar is sweet / And so are you”—and the high-tragic language of Racine. Rhyme ...