Champaklal Speaks

Champaklal is a Psychologist

1952-10-16

Photographer Chiman's birthday. Mother told him: “You have all the photographs with you. So that is not in question. What book do you want? Last Poems?”

Champaklal: “Give him photographs, Mother.”

Mother: “You are pleading.”

C: “I am pleading because if I were in his place I would not ask but would like to have them from you without asking. I would expect that from you. Mother.”

Mother then went in to fetch them from her room and then told Chiman: “Champaklal is a psychologist!”

When Mother said this I knew the meaning of the word but not the slightest idea why she was describing me like this. But now she has explained to me through experience. For instance, I see that many parents, for some reason or other, cannot understand their children and therefore do not behave with them properly. Of course I have also seen parents who do understand their children, but they are few.