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We are familiar
with the character-molding impact, of grandmother's tales, on impressionable minds.
Through the ages, it has been the privilege of the elders of the family to convey to
children, through bedtime stories, a broad conception of the fundamental values of life.
Even today, particularly in rural households, children drop off to
sleep lulled by lofty lullabies and stories and legends of the wisdom and the prowess of
our ancestors narrated by elders.
Things are different today'. With the growing disruption
and dislocation of the family setting, and the increasing urbanization, when winning the
bread and keeping the hearth have become the foremost preoccupations of a hurly burly
life, young people are deprived of this nourishing food for the soul.
Author - Dharamsey M. Khatau
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