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Shankar’s International Dolls Museum at Delhi has one of the largest collections of costume dolls anywhere in the world.
The Museum has two sections with glass cases >1000 ft. long. One section exhibits dolls from Europe, U.S.A and the Commonwealth countries; and the other from Asian and African countries.
A third section has recently been added. It contains black, brown and white dolls in different states of disarray. Most visitors – especially children have many queries about the exhibits here. The section information panel states that … these are the dolls collected from sites of violence across the globe.
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Thanks for the prompt Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. SHALOM.
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There is something tragic and heartbreaking about a doll, a child’s innocent toy, burned and bloodied in the midst of war and chaos. Such a powerful piece.
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A child’s innocent world lost in the hellish madness that life has become today across the globe. You brought home the mindless violence very evocatively.
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O my God. You broke my heart. The truth often does.
I regret the sad post, but some how ……
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That is one museum I’d love to visit someday. The last exhibit… sad, but I’d like to see that, too. Not all childhood’s are perfect, but all can be remembered well.
The third section is fiction. However, the museum is worth visiting.
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That actually sounds like an exhibit one would find in a museum.
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You couldn’t look at the last exhibit without wondering what happened to the children. Poignant.
Cast Aside – a very short story
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Factual sounding till the end, where you spun a poignant ending. Like it!
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Okay, I haven’t read all the other comments, so I have to ask: Really true? Because I can believe it. This old world is in sad shape.
Shankar’s doll museum in Delhi is a famous place and does have two sections with the largest collection of costumed dolls in world.
However, the third section described in the last para is pure fiction.
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I hope we are all listening, a fine take on the nasty effects of war and terrorism
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What a heartbreaking exhibit. I would have a hard time seeing it.
It would be very heart breaking if it was there.
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I am sure someday soon this will be a reality, a necessity to show our children the horrors of our actions. Excellent piece YS.
Glad you liked it. Thank you.
That would be such a believable exhibit. Maybe one day it would help to get rid of all the violence… a girl can dream, right?
True.
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Wow, that’s so heart wrenching, well done
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I visited the museum some 44 years ago.It’s wonderful. The third part is heart wrenching. Is it true?
No it is fiction.
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Thank God. Your imagination is not far from reality. Who knows…God forbid.
Yes, God forbid.
Sadly, this story is very believable.
Unfortunately.
A thought provoking post with a picture that encapsulates the tragedy of war, or any form of violence, and its impact on the innocent.
Thanks for the kind words.
Reblogged this on Musings of a Penpusher and commented:
One picture that speaks more clearly than a thousand words of the heartbreak caused by war and violence.
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I must have visited Shankar’s museum countless times as a kid but fortunately the third section is fictional. Though it would make such an impact to have one like that.
Yes, it is a fictional addition to it for this prompt.
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This has such an innocent opening ending in the unsettling last paragraph. Very well written and one ot make us think.
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