🇮🇳 India
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From pencils and parathas to laptops and chargers: Schoolbags change, childhood doesn't
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“Eat your toast and get your bag ready,” my son instructed my grandson the other morning. A Class VII student in the United Kingdom, he promptly began packing his backpack with school insignia embroidered on it. Into it went a laptop with its charger, a few mobile-phone accessories, two exercise books and a water bottle. And his schoolbag was ready.I instinctively looked for the things that had once filled our schoolbags—textbooks, geometry boxes, pencils and pens, and most indispensable of all,
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