Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Llamas are the beasts of burden domesticated in South America. These distant cousins of the camel are used in mountainous regions because of their surefootedness and they have a remarkable resistance to the intense cold. A llama can carry a load of 45 kg for upto 16 kilometres a day. However, if overloaded or tired it just lies down. What do their masters do when llamas go on a sit-down strike? Why, they also sit down and wait patiently for the llamas to get up and move on.
Last updated on :1/12/2006
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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.
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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.