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Children Learning to Walk
A young child gradually learns to stand and then begins to walk, taking one small step at a time. The mother delights in this achievement. Everyone in the household admires it. “Look, the baby has started walking!” they exclaim, encouraging the child. The child, too, walks with enthusiasm. It loses balance and falls, gets up…
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Infancy
(Speech delivered on December 23, 1951, at the Kamgar Sabha program, aimed at mill workers and other labourers, broadcast from All India Radio, Mumbai. Translated from the original Marathi ‘Shaishava’.) Friends, Children up to two years of age are called infants. From two to six or seven years, they are considered young children. At first,…
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This is Water!
Translated from the original Marathi article ‘He paani ahe ho’, published in Shikshan Patrika, October 1936 One afternoon, a four-year-old girl was deeply absorbed at home in drawing with her pencil and paper. At first, the drawings appeared to be random scribbles. After making several such drawings, one picture seemed to have turned out according…
