<p>Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of letters to his daughter Indira when she was about nine years old, spending her summers in the hills in Mussoorie while he was in the plains in Allahabad. These letters are a beautiful read from a man exploring the world and its history while fighting for India&rsquo;s independence from colonial rule, and searching for himself what it means to be part of people, cultures, and histories as varied as one can find in India. They are, however, written for a child &mdash; to learn to explore the world and to appreciate the intricacies and mysteries of human civilisations, languages, and ideas in many details. The accounts bring out the importance of nature &mdash; as care and wonder, as education and responsibility towards it. For any child to read them and learn from them would be a valuable education in humility, history, nature, and respect for both the human and natural worlds. The forewords to this book, most recently by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and an earlier one by Indira Gandhi herself, are most touching as much as perceptive &mdash; an indication of how these letters seeped into their private and political lives. The world is precious, beautiful, and complex, and we need to talk to our children about it, opening up doors and windows of exploration and discoveries, recognising variety as against unitary imaginations, enjoying the many avatars of nature and history as against slotting them into closed boxes.</p><p><img src="https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/827/381404/5dbac3e2b6c77/1572520906514.jpg"" owidth=618 oheight=416" style="height:416px; width:618px" /></p>All three books we feature here set children off on to a path of discovery, of the world and the self. And that is precisely what Nehru did with The Discovery of India

Letters From A Father To His Daughter

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