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Magical TV

It’s a paper that Mobby holds and gazes at with amazement. But what a paper it is! Apparently, it’s merely a page torn out of his big brother’s activity book and bedecked with some artwork. But then, take one look at it through Mobby’s eyes and you can see a rollickingly alive world that changes and spins before your eyes. Actually, it’s a TV. It’s a TV that has been invented as an act of defiance. “Amma said no more cartoons. So I have made my own TV, and now I can watch it even while lying in bed,” Mobby tells me with a frown that, as we have now learned to recognize, signifies his defiant I -will-figure-out-a-way-out-of-this-adult-mess mood. He jabs his fingers at each picture in the ‘TV’ and tells me about the wonderland ruled by a ladybug. A pretty, smiling ladybug. “I asked Amma to draw the ladybug, and then I made: a kangaroo who sits on a long ladder; a snake that is trying to grab ladybug’s banana; a spider that looks like a bat; a few green cockroaches