Remembering Our first Prime Minister, Late Jawaharlal Nehru or as we called him during our school days, Chacha Nehru on his 55th Death Anniversary. His Life Philosophy as he had written in The Discovery of India was "The future is dark, uncertain. But we can see part of the way leading to it and can tread it with firm steps, remembering that nothing that can happen is likely to overcome the spirit of man which has survived so many perils; remembering also that life, for all its ills, has joy and beauty, and that we can always wander, if we know how to, in the enchanted woods of nature. " There may be many who disliked him then and dislikes him now. But we know he did travel miles through the lovely, dark and deep woods...uplifting and shaping India of his dreams. ("The woods are lovely, dark and deep,. But I have promises to keep,. And miles to go before I sleep,. And miles to go before I sleep". - These lines from the Poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY ROBERT FROST, were his favourite and he had them at his desk always) Pranam to Architecture of Modern India.
Having just completed Re-reading Discovery of India, could not stop this - as I kept wondering, was that book derived from this? This was first compiled in 1929, based on letters written in the summer of 1928 when Indiraji was 10 years of age and in the Himalayas at Mussoorie.
It covers many things, like how little pebble and nature can teach you many things, on how early history was written, the making of the earth, the first living things, how animals appeared, the early men, races, civilization, formation of tribes, how religion began and division of labour, changes brought about by agriculture, the early civilisation, the great cities of the ancient world, different classes of people, kings, temples and priests, a look back.
To work together is better than to work singly, and to work together for the common good is the best of all.
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