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Bookaroo: See How Children’s Seven-Storied Houses Are Better Than Ours
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- May 1, 2016
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Bookaroo, where seven-storied homes were being created, molded and sold. I want a seven-story-house, too. So I marched along with the kids, trying to forget about my height. I thought no one would figure out that I’m not a kid.
But, ah, just if life was that easy! I smelled glue as soon as I entered Debjani Mukherjee’s session with the little halo-clad angels. Some of them, with pigtails, some with hats on were trying their best to build their homes.
Everything was neatly aligned in baskets around them. There was glue, paper, sheets, sketch pens.
Just as I sat observing, I noticed a little girl who came up to me while drawing uneven fish scales on her yellow sheet with a bright pink sketch pen. With innocence in her eyes, she asked me, “Is this fine?”
“Oh, it’s beautiful!” I told her, without a second thought.
“Mujhe nahi aa raha,” she said, holding the edge of the paper.
“Just create whatever you wish to create!” I told her.
She thought I was some psycho and ran towards Debjani.
Kids used stone-stickers, spilled glues, but thankfully were made to stay a little far away from scissors.
It was interesting to see how each of them had different ways to create the one thing that their instructor was teaching them.
I knew that had I been one of the students, I’d also have tried to experiment, but as an adult, it would be a piece of cake to produce the replica of her design.
The halo-clad angels continued to be cute and create their seven-storied houses while the adults went on to dream of palaces.
Photo Courtesy: Pallav Bhargava
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