REMEMBERING Nehru’s INDISPENSABLE LEGACY...

133 years ago, a child was born who was destined to play a huge role in shaping the entire nation. Seldom does it happen that one person gets the power to shape opinions, ideas and even shape the will of men to achieve one all-encompassing goal. It was on 14th November 1889 that Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was born to Motilal Nehru, a prominent lawyer and Indian nationalist, Jawaharlal Nehru was educated in England—at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and trained in the law at the Inner Temple. He became a barrister, returned to India, enrolled at the Allahabad High Court and gradually began to take an interest in national politics, which eventually became a fulltime occupation. He joined the Indian National Congress, rose to become the leader of a progressive faction during the 1920s, and eventually of the Congress, receiving the support of Mahatma Gandhi who was to designate Nehru as his political heir.

After trials and tribulations, he went on to become the first Prime Minister of Independent India and it was then that he gave his famous ‘tryst with destiny’ speech and almost immediately began the work of developing a nation which was extremely poor and backward. Although he went through hardships, the people always adored him and it was in 1954 that the demand to announce Nehru’s birthday as the children’s day since Nehru was fond of children who affectionately addressed him as ‘Chacha Nehru’. Finally it was in 1957 that the first Prime Minister’s birthday was announced to be celebrated for his love and affection towards the future generations of a nation that he painstakingly and diligently worked upon to build.

First India remembers the nation’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru!