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What it takes to build your own country??

Here is a conversation with two children in one of the sessions...
Me : What does it take to build a country?
Child 1 : Jenga...Blocks simple
Me : :)....Okay....what about building a real country...
Child 2: like India?....Houses
Me : Ok...and what else
Both of them: Taj mahal
Me : Okay....Taj mahal....what else does it take to make a country
Child 1 : One special Place
Child 2: Yes one special place has to be there!!
Me : One special place....and then anything else?
Child 2 : Special Food has to be there...
So the conversation went school, shops, circus, animals, chocolates and LAND & EARTH are primary they decided...we moved on...
Me: Who makes all these
Child 2: (in a jiffy) Gandhi!!!
Child 1: In total agreement - yes Mahatma Gandhi
Me : Okay...so Gandhi makes it...where is he?
Child 2 : He is in Taj mahal
Child 1 (looked confused but then felt friend was right)
Me: Who builds all the above?
Both: Builder... and Mahatma Gandhi tells builder
Me: Aha!! What else does Mahatma Gandhi do?
Both: Police...Signal….
Me: Okay… what else do we need then to make the country?
Child 1: We need Army also to make country…Else enemies will come…
Child 2: Yes, that is must to have….
Me: Who are enemies?
Child 1: They will kill us Nimmi…that’s why we must have ARMY…
Me: Oh!! But then who will join the army?
Both: I will!!! Yes, I will join army!!! It’s okay even if they kill us… (they both looked firm on it)
Me: Okay…so you both will join army...Is there anything else that the country needs?
Child 1: Oh!!! Important I forgot…Water!!!!
Child 2: yes…we forgot water Nimmi!!!....
Me: So how do we get water for the country then?
Child 1: Seas…It comes in aquaguard…
Child 2: But how it comes to it I don’t know…maybe rivers…Oh rains!!! Remember Nimmi clouds we did the other day…Yes!!! Rains…
Child 1: Yes!!! But how it comes to acquaguard the rains I don’t know…
We continued for some more time and the conversation also covered – oxygen….heart…Modi…
End of it….- Ahhh Nimmi!!! There’s so much I don’t know….The other child also joined…yeah!!! It’s  complicated Nimmi 😊

We concluded to explore about How to build your own country….And we are continuing our journey 😊

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