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Kanpur: India's capital attracts its people in several ways. Children also desire to go to the city. Returning from a recent visit to Delhi, one boy started narrating his experience of his first visit.

As he completed his journey by road, the wider highways attracted him so much as he wished the same quality of roads in Kanpur.

On novel things that he felt by seeing and roaming on Delhi's road was that he found the street dogs wearing coarse clothes and resting on soft cotton-filled sheets in Lajpat Nagar area of the big city.

Kanpur: Whatever it may be, there is no certainty of anything. We think of the children falling ill owing to different reasons. Nobody can guess that a little girl could have a symptom of forgetfulness. Among three children one has been observed enduring the Alzheimer's, according to rough calculations. 

It was realised when those three children came to tuition class one five-year-old girl suddenly found her school bag was not on her back. She also learnt she had no book holding by her one hand.

Kanpur: I felt nothing extraordinary. So I went to the factory's gate for another pursuit on a holiday. Luckily I found the woollen apparel looking after. As it was a holiday I did not browse online sales but waiting to make hay on a sunshine day.

Kanpur: Happily describing the progress of his younger son's engagement, the 65-year-old Shafique Sahab began his stories of those past days when he used to create shields for going to the cinema hall. 

As he remembers those youthful days, he felt no compunction in revealing how he along with his nephew approached to view a film at Capital Cinema Hall situated at city's famous Latouche Road, not too far from his Chamanganj residence.

Kanpur: How old are you? Asked a man to another stout man fondly called Pappu Bhai. He said that his age stands at 50 years. But what his Shafiq uncle told about the empty area of Jajmau around the year 1970 was worth grasping. At present this location is not scantily inhabited. It is equipped with everything that inhabitants require in their daily life.

Kanpur: Republic Day morning comes with cloudy sky with a minimum temperature of 7° Celsius here. There remains quite colder on Tuesday. 

There is no noise and disturbance all around, though a group was overheard shouting some patriotic slogan on the road. It seems that the children are huddled inside the room because of the intense cold.

One 12-year-old said: I did not feel energetic to move out. Even the daily practice of increasing height is on hold today. However, he did not forget to play badminton.

Kanpur: Foggy weather with a minimum temperature of 5° Celsius in Jajmau of the district compels residents to cover them completely. Though the daily chores are not hindered all the more, one clean-shaven man with a stylish woollen cap tries arduously to beat the bitter cold under the afternoon sun's warm heat.

It was neither bonfire nor the changing dispositions of his face that attracted others' attention towards him but the very unique cap was the cynosure of several eyes at the moment.

Kanpur: Despite cold but sunny weather the women did not fail to enjoy the arrival of the new year here on Saturday.

Being a limited gathering, they assembled at the terrace of their Block's five-storey high building in Jajmau area. 

What remained special about this special simple event was that nearly all of them brought one or two items. 

Kanpur: As the year slowly but steadily passes to its end in a few more hours, the memories are what we are going to recall in the coming year.

I have experienced a very memorable story from a 12-year-old boy who told he wanted to express heartily his joys. He narrated how his father readily agreed his request to buy badminton 🏸  as his old piece got broken while playing with his friends.

What he could not expect got fulfilled in a very short time. Happiness was spreading on his face to find a new racquet which was quite costly in comparison to the old one.

Kanpur: Several think that 24-hour electricity supply in the district would help in maintaining social distancing when the Covid fear in this big city is rocketing as the trend shows.

One said that lesser power cuts which remain a regular feature will help denizens stay behind the door under comfortable condition. They will hesitate in moving out of the houses. Thus, there will be a limited crowd on the road. Only those will move out who will find it too necessary to go out.