Ajit Singh Nagra
CHILDREN’S DAY SPECIAL
The birthday of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru falls on 4th November and it is celebrated as Children’s Day for he bore immense love for the children and experienced, unspeakable ecstasy in the company of these innocuous smiling faces and their lovely prattle. Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the solitary son of Pt. Moti Lal Nehru and Smt Swaroop Nehru was born on 14th November 1889 at Allahabad with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was the first Prime Minister of Free India who dominated the India Political horizon from 1950 to 1964, the architect of Modern India, an apostle of International Peace, founder member of Non-alignment movement, and Panchsheel, Possessed scientific temper, cosmopolitan. Attitude, broad minded vision, ushered in Democratic socialism and mixed economy. Promoted economic prosperity through construction of multipurpose dams to wipe out the crippling stigma of poverty, starvation and economic destitution strove hard to foster the bonds of brotherhood and understanding, a prolific writer, literary giant and intellectual visionary of profound caliber who penned “Discovery of India – My Autobiography”, a bunch of letters to his daughter, and glimpses of World history, guided the destiny of the nation wisely and bravely with his political wisdom and foresighted statesmanship and catapulted himself in to the International fame as one of the greatest world statesman of his times.
He belonged to the stock of Koul Kashmiri Pandits whose great ancestor Raj Koul left this native land and settled at Agra during the Mughal times and migrated to Delhi during 1857 upheaval and started living near the canal where they came to be called Naharwallas (Nehrus). He did not attend any school for sixteen years for formal education and the French Governess used to teach him at home since the income of his aristocratic father from his lucrative legal practice enabled him to purchase a house “Anand Bhawan” in Allahabad and provided luxurious living to his son.
For eleven years , he was the only child in the family and all doted on him, once he stole a golden pen from the study of his father in his childhood and Pt. Moti Lal beat him black and blue to nip the in the evil bud to chisel him carefully for future.Jawahar was sent Harrow Public School in Cambridge for education and he completed his Bar- at Law in England. He was married to an unlettered Kashmiri girl Kamla, had a daughter Indira and became a forlorn widower in 1936. His daughter was the worthy successor of her illustrious father; this Philosopher – king of India plunged into the vortex of India s’ freedom -struggle, courted jail for nine years, renounced luxurious livlng, espoused to Ghandian simplicity., befriended Lord Mountbatten and brought the dawn of freedom in 1947 served the Nation as its first Prime Minister till his demise on 27th. May 1964. It was the Chinese aggression in 1962 that dealt him a mortal blow and closed the chapter of hiskife so speedily.
Pt. Nehru bore immense love for small and innocent children and their company delighted him. The children have no consideration of distinction and provide the divine message of true love, pure feelings and harmless tenderness, Pt. Nehru dreamt of a bright future for the posterity as the children are the sunshine of the home and constitute the real wealth of a Nation, They are like seeds containing their unpredictable greatness inside them.
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of Life’ longing for itself.
They came through you but not from you
And though they are with you yet they belong no to you
You may give them your love but not your thoughts
For they have their own thoughts
You may have their bodies but not their souls
For their souls live in the house of tomorrow
Which you cannot visit not even in your dreams you may strive to be like them
But seek not to make them like you
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday
[Khalil Gibron-The Prophet]
Childhood is the nursery where destiny of the nation is shaped and the future citizens are groomed to serve the nation with unselfish devotion and sincere work. This day ordains us to provide congenial atmosphere, conducive conditions and best education to groom and grow the children both physically and mentally, we need to weed out the corrupt elements that impede the progress, retard our growth and cause cancer in the vitals of our social system. We should betterthe health conditions of our mothers to breed better children to supply the best material in all walks of life to our our nation strong ,healthy and wealthy. All the greatmen of the world were children from where they began their journey of life inherited virtues from their parents and elders byemulating them as their role- models.
It is matterof shame and deep concern that the condition of small children is horribly miserable in the under-developed countries where they have to live in very inhospitable conditions. They suffer from poverty, illiteracy, starvation and diseases and a large numberof children die in the infancy or they are cut in the prime of their life as the flower- plants wither away due to dearth of water. In the militancy-prone countries children are brain- washed , indoctrined and are forced to join military camps and are trained to indulge into terrorist activities to pose a serious threat to the mankind. We need to educate these ignorant people to save them from self- destruction.Children also suffer from juvenile- delinquency, drug- addiction and economic crimes like stealing and cheating. The French emperor Napolean loved to spend his time in the company of children and saluted them as he expected that the children could excel him.
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