Letter.

Letter Published in The National UAE on 20Feb 19   Even as adults, we have much to gain from hobbies  I refer to Justin Thomas’s opinion piece There is nothing trivial about hobbies (February 19). The proposal of the Indian high school in Dubai to allocate one-and-a-half days a week for hobbies is laudable. In my native country of India, I have seen many parents encouraging their children to take up interesting, often highly educational hobbies. And once cultivated, they do not easily disappear. Many adults look back fondly on the hobbies they did as children.K Ragavan, Bengaluru