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We are familiar
with the character-molding impact of grand mother'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 preoccupation of a hurly-burly life, young people are deprived of this nourishing
food for the soul.
Author - Dharamsey M. Khatau
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