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Suhani is surrounded by educational toys scattered on the rug. There is a pink abacus, a white rectangular wooden puzzle with four pieces to be fitted in slots, a turquoise blue wooden clock face with a yellow centre and black Roman numerals, and a cardboard box that says MECHAMIX in red. On Suhani’s lap there is a similar white wooden puzzle with a red and yellow clown face cut out. She is fitting the pieces into the slots. ","Alt_Text_Photo3":"Suhani sits on the light brown mud floor of a kitchen. With her knees drawn up and hands clasping them. She wears a pale salmon-coloured frock and white churidhar beneath. The frock has large frills at the sleeves and broad layered frills at the bottom. The walls are bare brick and the same colour as the floor. To the right there is a dark brown grain storage container made of woven bamboo cane. It is shaped like a giant urn, almost reaching the ceiling. It rests on a thin wooden platform supported by bricks at the corners.","Alt_Text_Photo4":"Suhani is outdoors, next to a black buffalo with curly horns. She wears her salmon frock and white churidhar. The buffalo is tied to an upright wooden pole with an iron chain. It is bending its neck to eat a pile of dried grass. Suhani is bending down to extend a stick of grass towards the animal. In the background there are large cream piles of dried grass and stacks of thin brown wooden twigs.","Alt_Text_Photo5":"Suhani and her family sit cross-legged in a row on a light grey mud floor. From left to right her father Kishanbhai (42), sister Riya (6), Suhani, and her mother Jyotikaben (34) holding sister Preshaben (2.5) on her lap. The wall behind them is made of bare red brick. A broom made of greenish-brown dried grass hangs from a nail on the wall. Kishan wears sky blue jeans and a full-sleeved shirt with a geometrical pattern of indigo and grey on a white background. Riya wears a crimson T-shirt and bluish-grey cotton knitted pants. Suhani wears her sky blue shirt and grey pants. Jyotika wears a chocolate brown nightie printed with white teardrops. A pale greenish grey dupatta printed in a floral pattern of grey and pink is wrapped around her head and shoulders. Presha wears a maroon round-necked frock printed with tiny white and light blue flowers.","Alt_Text_Video":null,"Photo1_URL":"https://egsweb.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/Suhaniben/_O2A8578.jpg","Photo2_URL":"https://egsweb.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/Suhaniben/_O2A8545.jpg","Photo3_URL":"https://egsweb.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/Suhaniben/_O2A8620.jpg","Photo4_URL":"https://egsweb.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/Suhaniben/_O2A8646.jpg","Photo5_URL":"https://egsweb.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/Suhaniben/_O2A8590.jpg","Name_English":"Suhaniben Kishanbhai","Language":"en","Disability":["recqkJ0sfTCGlqJlR"],"Gender":"Female","Instagram_Content":"The traditional game of ‘five stones’ is called theekari in Gujarati and it’s one of the favourite games of 10-year-old Suhaniben, the eldest of three daughters of Kishanbhai (42) and Jyotikaben (35) who belong to the Rathwa tribe and live in Bariya Falyu hamlet within Moti Dumali village in the tribal-dominated Chhota Udaipur district.\n\nKishanbhai, who works as a caretaker in a boys’ orphanage in the village, says from an early age Suhaniben’s development was slow. Signs of intellectual disability showed up in her delayed speech and weak powers of comprehension. She studies in Class 4 in the local government school. Kishanbhai mentions a kindly Class 3 teacher, Bhavnaben, who allowed Suhani to learn at her own pace. Her current teacher Rajesh-sir is also fond of her. Jyotikaben patiently helped her daughter learn to manage her daily regimen, perform simple domestic tasks, and develop confidence.\n\nSuhani says she enjoys studying, has friends in school, and plays pakkad-dav (run and catch) with her best friend Shivani. She plays theekari with her neighbourhood friends, watches cartoons on her father’s mobile and helps her mother with chores. She enjoys cooking, especially her favourite rotla-shak (roti-subzi). She is ever keen to go out, and loves train journeys. What delights her the most? “When someone gives me a new frock!”\n\nSuhani shares a close bond with her two younger sisters, Riya (6) and Preshaben (2.5). When asked what she would like to be when she grows up she said, “A nurse or a teacher.” Kishanbhai says he plans to enrol her from Class 6 onwards in Punyavat girls’ school, about 5 km from their home, to further support her development. The unwavering encouragement of her family and teachers will surely guide Suhani to an independent and fulfilling future.","Quote":"“I like playing games with my friends. My teachers help me learn at my own pace”","Status":"Published","Video":null,"Website_Content":"Do you remember playing the traditional game of ‘five stones’? If not, you may be an urban child of the digital age. For the benefit of the uninitiated – you start by throwing up a stone in the air, picking up another from the ground, and catching the first stone in the same hand. You repeat the step with a progressively increasing number of stones. This game of skill, which has names in practically every Indian language, is apparently native to several cultures around the world! In Gujarati it’s called ‘theekari’ and it’s one of the favourite games of 10-year-old Suhaniben, the eldest of three daughters of Kishanbhai (42) and Jyotikaben (35) who belong to the Rathwa tribe and live in Bariya Falyu hamlet within Moti Dumali village in the tribal-dominated Chhota Udaipur district.\n \nKishanbhai works as a caretaker in a boys’ orphanage in the village and his wife is a homemaker. He says that from an early age Suhaniben’s development was slower than other children of her age. Signs of intellectual disability (ID) showed up in her delayed speech and weak powers of comprehension. She joined the local government school. Kishanbhai mentions a kindly Class 3 teacher, Bhavnaben, who was very understanding and allowed Suhani to learn at her own pace. Jyotikaben patiently helped her daughter learn to manage her daily regimen, perform simple domestic tasks, and develop confidence.\n \nThis confidence was very much in evidence when our EGS interviewer chatted with her in Gujarati. He found her cheerful and expressive. When he asked her “How are you?” she answered, “I am happy.” And which school does she go to? “Government school Dumali, Class 4,” was her prompt reply. “I enjoy studying very much.” Her current class teacher is “Rajesh-sir”, she said, adding warmly, “He is fond of me.” Her ID hasn’t affected her social interaction in school. When asked if anyone troubled her she said confidently, “No. I get time to play as well, which I enjoy. My close friend is Shivani and I play pakkad-dav (run and catch) with her.” She also plays the game of ketla-re-ketla with her classmates: they keep revolving in a large circle, and when a number is called out, such as 2 or 5, they have to instantly split into smaller groups of the exact same number, and the slow ones who couldn’t fit into a group have to exit the game.\n \nWhen she gets together with her neighbourhood friends she likes playing theekari with them. At home she watches cartoons on her father’s mobile when she is not helping her mother with chores such as washing clothes and kitchen utensils. She enjoys cooking. “I like making my favourite rotla and shak (roti and sabzi),” she says, “but I don’t like rice.” She likes going out and travelling to other places. “I went to Vadodara, and also to Bodeli where I had fun staying at my aunt’s house,” she said. “I enjoy train journeys the most.” What delights her the most? “When someone gives me a new frock!”\n \nSuhani shares a close bond with her two younger sisters, Riya (6) and Preshaben (2.5). When asked what she would like to be when she grows up she said, “A nurse or a teacher.” Kishanbhai says he plans to enrol her from Class 6 onwards in Punyavat girls’ school, about 5 km from their home, to further support her development. The unwavering encouragement of her family and teachers will surely guide Suhani to an independent and fulfilling future.\n","State_name":"Gujrat","Display_Order":256}}},
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