New- Today's (Nov 14th, 2011) Children's Day Doodle
Children's day is being celebrated all over the world in various days.
Children's day is to celebrate childhood.
International children's day is celebrated at June 1st, and Universal children's day is getting celebrated at November 20th.
In India, Children's day is particularly celebrated at November 14th. Because, Nov 14th is India's First Prime Minister Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru's birthday.
He is fond of children. His love and affection is always towards children. Children used to call him "Chacha Nehru" (Chacha in Hindi means Uncle). He used to spare his free time with children by playing ,singing and telling stories to them.
He used to say that "Futre India is in the hands of Today's Child".
So after his death(1963) children's day is celebrated at Nov 14th.
In India ,most of the schools will conduct various competitions like dance,singing,quiz and elocutions at children's day to honour the children's day.
Google Doodle
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The 4th Standard student Puru Pratap Singh who has drawn this Doodle explained his Theme as below.
India is a country which has a blend of thousands of traditions and all religions like Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism and Islam. It has developed a lot in the past few years. The discovery of water on the moon by the Indian scientists is a proof to this fact. The Indian culture is as vibrant as the colours of the peacock. Kashmir, the crown of India, is as serene as the peace bird and as pure as the lotus. We, the Indian citizens are also trying to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of educating each and every Indian child.
Akshay Raj a 14 year old student studying IXth class in St Aloysius High School, Mangalore.
His doodle 'Technically and Naturally Growing India' was chosen from over 1,08,000 sketches submitted by students from across the country and was selected on the basis of artistic merit, creativity, and expression of the theme.
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2011 Children'sDay Doodle
This year (2011) Google asked the kids to draw the Doodle for the Theme "India's gift to the world"
The Winner Varsha Gupta's Theme for the Doodle is "Indian Musical Instruments". And, She gives below explanation for her Doodle.
India is a land of different cultures. In India Music plays a very importatnt role. India has given many musical instruments to the world. Example:- Tabla, Sarod, Veena, Shehnai etc. Goddess Saraswati plays Veena, God Shiv plays damaru. According to our mythlogical stories musical instruments used to be played on all the occassions. Even during war musical instruments were played. Lord Krishna's flute is known in the whole world for its magical music. In mordern days mr. Zakir Hussain is world famous as Tabla Mastro. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is known as a great Santoor player all over the world.
About Jawahar Lal Nehru (Chacha Nehru).
Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, to a lawyer Motilal Nehru and Swaroop Rani at Allahabad. He was a brilliant, kindhearted child and he was greatly loved by all.
His father Motilal Nehru wanted to give him the best education. So he sent Nehrr to England for studying his M.A. from Cambridge. India was ruled by British at that time. When he returned to India, young Jawaharlal wanted to help the poor. He took part in the Freedom Struggle of India and became a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. When India got its independence, he became the first Prime Minister of free India.
He was a perfect mixing of eastern philosophical values and western scientific thinking and encouraged technological progress. He was also a man of letters and a great poet and wrote some famous works like, ‘Glimpses of World History’ and ‘Discovery of India’. His letters to his daughter, Indira Gandhi were also compiled into a book and reflects his philosophical outlook, his compassion and above all, his tender heart.
Jawaharlal Nehru used to keep a Red Rose on his coat.
Children's Day message from President of India.
Nehru's Letter to Children
I like being with children and talking to them and, even more, playing with them. For the moment I forget that I am terribly old and it is very long ago since I was a child.
But when I sit down to write, I cannot forget my age and the distance that separates you from me. Old people have a habit of delivering sermons and good advice to the young.
I remember that I disliked this very much long ago when I was a boy. So I suppose you do not like it very much either. Grown-ups also have a habit of appearing to be very wise, even though very few of them possess much wisdom. I have not yet quite made up my mind whether I am wise or not.
Sometimes listening to others I feel that I must be wise and brilliant and important. Then, looking at myself, I begin to doubt this. In any event, people who are wise do not talk about their wisdom and do not behave as if they were very superior persons...
What then shall I write about? If you were with me, I would love to talk to you about this beautiful world of ours, about flowers, trees, birds, animals
, stars, mountains, glaciers and all the other beautiful things that surround us in the world. We have all this beauty all around us and yet we, who are grown-ups, often forget about it and lose ourselves in our arguments or in our quarrels. We sit in our offices and imagine that we are doing very important work.
I hope you will be more sensible and open your eyes and ears to this beauty and life that surrounds you. Can you recognise the flowers by their names and the birds by their singing? How easy it is to make friends with them and with everything in nature, if you go to them affectionately and with friendship. You must have read many fairy tales and stories of long ago. But the world itself is the greatest fairy tale and story of adventure that was ever written. Only we must have eyes to see and ears to hear and a mind that opens out to the life and beauty of the world.
Grown-ups have a strange way of putting themselves in compartments and groups. They build barriers... of religion, caste, colour, party, nation, province, language, customs and of rich and poor. Thus they live in prisons of their own making. Fortunately, children do not know much about these barriers, which separate. They play and work with each other and it is only when they grow up that they begin to learn about these barriers from their elders. I hope you will take a long time in growing up...
Some months ago, the children of Japan wrote to me and asked me to send them an elephant. I sent them a beautiful elephant on behalf of the children of India... This noble animal became a symbol of India to them and a link between them and the children of India.
I was very happy that this gift
of ours gave so much joy to so many children of Japan, and made them think of our country... remember that everywhere there are children like you going to school and work and play, and sometimes quarrelling but always making friends again. You can read about these countries in your books, and when you grow up many of you will visit them. Go there as friends and you will find friends
to greet you.
You know we had a very great man amongst us. He was called Mahatma Gandhi. But we used to call him affectionately Bapuji. He was wise, but he did not show off his wisdom. He was simple and childlike in many ways and he loved children... he taught us to face the world cheerfully and with laughter.
Our country is a very big country and there is a great deal to be done by all of us. If each one of us does his or her little bit, then all this mounts up and the country prospers and goes ahead fast.
I have tried to talk to you in this letter as if you were sitting near me, and I have written more than I intended.
Jawaharlal Nehru December 3, 1949
Criticism
The National NewsPaper is criticizing children's day celebrations. It is saying as below.
Reports from international organisations such as Unicef and the World Bank have roundly criticised the abject failure of governance in health and education that has left Indian children among the most disadvantaged in the world. According to recent statistics, some two million children younger than five years old die every year in India. That’s one every 15 seconds which, shamefully, is the highest rate in the world.
Instead of singing hosannas to Nehru and his love for children, what we need to be thinking about this Children’s Day is how we can get our society of adults to be held accountable for the treatment of its youngest citizens.Children's day Activities - Enjoyable outdoor games , Kids crafts , Short stories
Children's day prayers - prayer for child , school prayer
Children's day Quotes - education quotes
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