Today is the 14th November, a national holiday in India. It is the birthday of our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and as he loved children very much, it is also called children’s day. In Vrindavan there are celebrations on this day each year and especially children fairs with carousels and food that children like. I remember that in my childhood my school organized a fair each year and we were also making and selling food or had a project that we presented. And today the same school still organizes a yearly fair on this day.
This year our children were invited there and at the same time to another fair for a dance performance. So a group of children and teachers went to one fair and another one to the other. We are very proud of our children and their dancing. One of the girls received 50 Rupees from someone who liked her dance so that she could enjoy the fair very much and the other group all got lunchboxes as presents for their beautiful performance.
It is wonderful, they are so happy and proud and it just makes their teachers and us all also happy. A child’s smile is something very precious and it makes your heart fill with love and happiness.
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In the US we have Mother’s day and Father’s day to celebrate parents. I have often heard children ask “when is children’s day?” to which the response is inevitably “every day is children’s day.”But I think it is a good thing that you have a festival like this for children. It’s a very good thing.