Children's Day 2024: Reliving and renewing the child within

Imagination and reality never coalesced and ruptured sooner than in one's childhood. On this Children's Day 2024, these photos may make you want to relive your inner child--and dream again

Nov 14, 2024, 17:19 IST1 min

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A Kashmiri shepherd boy herds a flock of sheep during an autumn day in the outskirts of Srinagar., Jammu & Kashmir on November 1, 2024.

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Rehmat Kaur holds a defence pose during a boxing practice session at the Sher-E Punjab Sports Academy in Chakar village, Punjab, India, on July 16, 2024.

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Nganba Keisham, 8, and his brother Thasana Keisham, 5, look at a mobile phone inside their temporary home at a Meitei relief camp for displaced people in Imphal, Manipur, India, April 9, 2024.

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Sea-inspired gold pendant and clothes are seen on a child during a procession for Narali Purnima, the fishing community"s offering to the sea God for a prosperous fishing season in Mumbai, India, August 19, 2024.

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Children play cricket at Bundiparkota Ghat, on the banks of the river Ganga, in Varanasi on March 1, 2024.

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A young girl dribbles a football at Patwardhan Garden in Bandra, Mumbai, during a celebration of Bombay Municipal Corporation"s decision to protect the garden from being turned into a Car Park, on September 22, 2024, in Mumbai, India.

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A boy sells idols of the Elephant God ahead of Ganesha Chaturthi amidst sudden rains in Patparganj, New Delhi, India, on September 4, 2024.

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A boy peers into an animal display case showing a live marbled water monitor (Varanus marmoratus) native to the Philippines at Pet Fiesta - Bengaluru on April 07, 2024.

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Schoolchildren wade through flood waters on a raft at Mayong village in Morigaon, Assam, on July 3, 2024.

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Kashmiri nomadic children ride on horses as their family walk with livestock in a hilly area of Yusmarg, 50km southwest of Srinagar, J&K, on September 25, 2024.

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