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Indian households often feature an older person with fond memories of walking to school, replete with eating golas (flavored ice cones), climbing trees and playing gilli danda (a popular children’s game) with friends. Today, most parents in urban India would not dream of letting their child walk to school alone, owing to speeding vehicles and the lack of safe footpaths. Even in cases where the school is within walking distance, most parents tend to drop off the child in a private or shared vehicle.