Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
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Jacanas or lily-trotters as they are sometimes called, have a long hind-claw and exceedingly long toes and this enables them to walk on floating vegetation in ponds and jheels without sinking. Jacanas’ nests are built on floating vegetation and sometimes both nest and eggs drift from one side of the lake to another! The eggs are wet most of the time and the chicks can swim as soon as they hatch. There are two species of jacanas in the Indian subcontinent.
Learn to make a whistle from a broken earthern pot or would you like to make a bird feeder so that you can watch birds on your window sill everyday. Our Activity Section teaches you to make simple things from easily available materials.
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
K. M Munshi Marg,
Chowpatty, Mumbai - 400 007
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Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.