Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote many letters to his daughter Indira gandhi in the summer of 1928 when she was in Himalayas at Mussoorie. They were personal letters addressed to a little girl,ten years of age.They were quite informative , telling a child about the world. Some of his letters were on the topics like

• The making of earth
• The first living things
• The early man
• How different races were formed
• The races and languages of mankind

• How Religion began and Division of Labour
• The changes brought about by Agriculture
• The great cities of ancient world
• China and India
• Different classes of people
• Fossils and ruins
• The Ramayana and the Mahabharata

" These letters deal with the beginnings of the earth and of man's awareness of himself. They were not merely letters to be read and put away.They bought a fresh outlook and aroused a feeling of concern for people and interest in the world around.They taught one to treat nature as a book.I spent absorbing hours studying stones and plants,the lifes of insects and at night, the stars "

--------------------INDIRA GANDHI