Joy of Making Indian Toys

Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:35:28 +0000

Introduction
The best thing a child can do with a toy is to break it. The next best thing is to make it. This book is about toys which children can make and break freely. The low cost or rather no-cost toys documented in the book are the everyday playthings of millions of Indian children, past and present.

Joy of Making Indian Toys [Illustrations by D. K. Sharma]

Strictly speaking, most of the toys documented here do not have a technical or standard name. Many parents shun them as ‘junk’. Toy manufacturers would not even talk about them because there is no way to make money out of them. How can one make money from a whistle which can be made by rolling a leaf or a tiny piece of paper?

Sudarshan Khanna on Pitara Kids Network

Joy of Making Indian Toys