As children we often looked at the sky and gave forms to the clouds and made stories. As
children we spent time with other children playing games and listening to each other. That is
not happening now. Today, children are spending time only with their gadgets. The age of
information technology has captured the minds of children with four screens TV, Computer,
Movie and mobile screens. This has led to overloading of content and suppresses their
imagination, something we parents are aware of but choose to ignore because of other
pressures surrounding adult life.
We need to change that; we need to engage children in an active process of creating original
content that their friends and they will enjoy. So as an experiment a workshop was conducted
with 20 children from both, the privileged and the underprivileged groups where kids were
exposed to traditional oral and visual art forms -folklorists, dancers, puppeteers, animators,
sculptors, painters and on the basis of what majority of the kids were drawn to was selected
as content. Published by Pratham Books supported by drawings made by the children. This
special is available in multiple languages.