Jawaharlal Nehru was fondly known as Chacha Nehru and was very popular with kids. He was born on November 14 1889 to Swarup Rani and Motilal Nehru. He was the first Prime Minister of Independent India. His birthday is celebrated in India as Children's day.
Jawaharlal Nehru was
born in a very wealthy family. Just as birthdays are celebrated by
cutting cake and singing happy birthday to you, in those days,
birthday's were celebrated by doing a “Tula”. In a huge balance just
like the one you see in the hands of the blind folded idol of justice,
the birthday boy would sit on one side of the balance or the Tula. On
the other side, they filled it up with either grains or new clothes or
gold coins depending on how much some one wanted to spend. Once the
needle of the balance swung in the center, the grains or the new clothes
or the gold coins would be distributed amongst the poor and the needy.
Nehru loved the Tula so much that he celebrated his birthday two times
in a year.Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Kamala Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru and was born on November 19, 1917. She was the first woman Prime Minister of Independent India. When Indira was born, the freedom movement for independent India was going very strong and her parents were very actively involved in India's freedom struggle. Their house in Allahabad was always the hub of freedom fighters. Gandhiji was a frequent visitor and Indira was greatly affected by his thinking. As a child she read a book on Joan of Arc. She liked Joan of Arc so much that she banded some small children like herself and had her own army playing pretend fighting for India's freedom.
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