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The Day-Care System (Swedish: Dagis) here in Sweden has fascinated me a lot. Followers of InDepth might recall a blog post on the same subject that I wrote some time ago. Those were the days when my daughter had just started going to the Dagis . A lot has changed since then. Knowledge, sensibilities and priorities included. Circumstances too have changed. In the beginning it was - I had to send my daughter to the Dagis as both myself and my wife were working full-time. Now my daughter is going to the big school. Perhaps, this is a good time for me to relax and reflect on those earlier days. What did I learn as a parent? What did she learn as a kid? Sense of Identity: A child is nothing but a heap of clay. Try to make a pot out of it, it will get made. Try to make a mask out of it, it will get done. The care, the camaraderie, the inclusiveness, the warmth, the affection and the joyfulness - all these and much more impart a shape to a child inside the four walls of a Dagis . ...

The voice of Kishore Kumar had a distinguishing quality. I believe there is hardly anyone who can disagree with me when I reveal what that quality was. His voice bore the constitution of a hero - that eternal, romantic and evergreen hero. In the world of Indian cinema, where 'playback singing' is so vital to a film, the name of Kishore Kumar twinkles forever with everlasting brightness. Playback singing is an open and wide area of art. As a matter of fact, today, there is hardly a film industry other than the Indian film industry, where one can find examples of this distinguished art. Kishore Kumar, being one of the leading male playback singers for over four decades, has done a vast range of work that has been of outstanding quality. In today's edition, we talk about and listen to some of his offbeat numbers. These can be called 'offbeat' because we can find certain departures from the norm; we can find voice modulation and some other aspects of his craft. The...