Designing for Play ; Suhasini Paul has Been Making Playtime More Interesting.

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When she was very young, Suhasini Paul's friends played with whatever toys their parents bought them. But Suhasini was different. She played with toys she made herself. If morning shows the day, that bit of juvenile creativity presaged her emergence as a professional toy designer as an adult-honed to perfection with a degree from the National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad.

Learn at play. That is the much-touted route to learning, say experts. For Suhasini, 29, it comes easy. She has happy memories of spending hours with her grandmother, Vimal Mahapure, and of the innumerable paper flowers the two of them would make. That background pushed her toward designing toys that are not just meaningless tools of distraction.

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Designing for Play ; Suhasini Paul has Been Making Playtime More Interesting.

Her toys are unusual, innovative yet educational: say, the miniature chalk chess-board carved with hair pins, the fun games ...

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