Have wings, won’t fly
By Rana Nayar

INFANCY or childhood has often been celebrated in both literature and religion as an ideal state of being; pure, perfect and innately good.
Behind such an idealised image of childhood always lay an ideology which valorised the past, pushing the present, the contingent and the historical into a virtual neglect.

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