August 15, 2021,India turns 75. Yeah!! Well, the new modern India. India, as a country, with much larger land mass than today has existed for 5,000 years...
I took this picture, probably two years ago. And forgot to put it here. Nothing special about this pic, except street children sell these around India's independence day. This is something that we used to make as children. But this tricolour here is representative of the Indian flag. Usually useless, people buy them anyway to put them in their cars. How are they made? Just take two sticks (we used to pull two thin strings from Indian brooms)--cross them midway, make a knot. And then start wrapping yarn of whichever color you like around the individual sticks, secure it by going all around one stick, push it back tighten in and move to the next step. Keep going till you arrive at the edges. Seal off with a neat knot.. These would make simple handmade-wallhangings. I have seen them as coasters,although when I made them by hand the coasters would not sit straight and so were not very useful. Regardless, they brought back many memories of when we were learning those 'extra curricular activities' and with every useless thing we created, we felt, Oh so useful!!
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