The other day, wading through a Hindi chapter about one Rajappa and a Nagarajan and their respective stamp albums in my daughter’s Hindi textbook, I was struck by something. Kids these days have little clue about activities such as philately, calligraphy, coin collecting, marble paper painting, nib drawing or the joys of rock collecting, recording cassettes, doing cross-stitch and more. In earlier, simpler, less demanding times, children engaged in a range of pastimes and hobbies that have all but disappeared in recent times.
Time was that children would proudly display their stamp albums to guests and relatives. Today’s kids know nothing of the joys of collecting rare stamps, trading them, carefully affixing them inside albums and about the delights of collecting and collections.
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