Life as I have Seen It

Author(s): Urmila S Dholakia
Publisher: Urmila S Dholakia

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Life As I've seen it
[I worked for 25 years as a Warden of Sarojini Naidu Hall, M. S. University Ladies Hostels, Vadodara. During that period, I experienced and passed through so many delicate and difficult situations. In this book, I have honestly narrated all these true and factual episodes as they have happened. I am sure, parents of lady-students would be very much interested in knowing these situations and how I, as a Warden, handled them.]
MY EXPERIENCES SAPNA
Childhood is full of imaginations and innocence. Nothing else matters. The so called worldly wisdom has not entered the psyche. Childhood has a very special and valuable gift of innocence and simplicity. Child is true believes all that is happening in the world. In childhood, one flies with the wings of thoughts, desires and wishes. I am still trying to fathom my childhood today. I reminisce in the memory of my childhood with faded flashes of incidents.
Since childhood, I was interested in the world outside. I loved to climb the tree, sway far away with the waves, getting lost in nature with breeze of the wind, etc. Responsibility was not yet thrust upon me. Around this time, students of Vadodara Arya Ladies School came to Calcutta (now Kolkata) for cultural program of music, dance etc. These
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