ravishingravi Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 It’s exactly on days like these one realizes that India didn’t become independent on Aug 15, 1947. Somewhere in 1964, someone randomly decided that he likes children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) Chacha Nehru loved children. But did children love him back? Edited November 14, 2021 by coffee_rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravishingravi Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 Well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chakdephatte Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Bhakts and their obsession with Nehru Lord, speedheat and Bigg Brother 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chakdephatte Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) What if someone shares hateful posts against you on your birthday. Or, LOL, someone abuses Modi on his birthday. There are better days for all this. But then, it's coming from a fan of a person who shamelessy does it all year. Edited November 14, 2021 by Chakdephatte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 39 minutes ago, Chakdephatte said: What if someone shares hateful posts against you on your birthday. Or, LOL, someone abuses Modi on his birthday. There are better days for all this. But then, it's coming from a fan of a person who shamelessy does it all year. But don’t you think Bal divas is far fetched. Others have mere Jayanthi, but chacha gets a narrative of children loving uncle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravishingravi Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Chakdephatte said: What if someone shares hateful posts against you on your birthday. Or, LOL, someone abuses Modi on his birthday. There are better days for all this. But then, it's coming from a fan of a person who shamelessy does it all year. Far from it. I am not even a Nehru hater. But I am happy with corrections that are happening. This is pretty much North Korea esque myth and narrative building which we all grew up in. Time to tear it down. Edited November 15, 2021 by ravishingravi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 He is our first PM of independent India & commands respect. At least his day is not celebrated as some sort of Nehru Jayanti or something. Children day seems apt... Nothing personal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbestfriend Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Fact is it is well know that Nehru is socialistic and hated that businesses exploited the common people , which is in sync with the time they lived in. Most movies showed marwaris as some sort of evil and selfish beings who only care for themselves. Today whole India is morphed into same mentality, but back then such views are not something to be judged by todays logic. One may question Nehru's policies , but picking childrens day for that is definitely unwanted and hateful... Chakdephatte 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarke Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 That socialism thing is well known, however what was the origin of children's day ? Did some major policy launch happen by the govt under Nehru, maybe education, vaccination or child nutrition oriented ? It doesn't sound appealing, hey he likes kids so lets call his b'day as children's day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 (edited) del Edited November 15, 2021 by coffee_rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravishingravi Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share Posted November 15, 2021 2 hours ago, Clarke said: That socialism thing is well known, however what was the origin of children's day ? Did some major policy launch happen by the govt under Nehru, maybe education, vaccination or child nutrition oriented ? It doesn't sound appealing, hey he likes kids so lets call his b'day as children's day. Clarke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarke Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 ^^ I don't have a recollection of Nehru worship in my school thankfully. Teachers actually did some play etc. I'm sure NaMo's b'day will also be marked in some way on an annual basis. Chakdephatte 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Wolf Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 2 hours ago, ravishingravi said: November 20 is World Children day but India is vishwaguru... It's unique we have a different children day than rest of the world. As Shoaib Akhtar would say we are different breed apna style alag hai bhai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Clarke said: ^^ I don't have a recollection of Nehru worship in my school thankfully. Teachers actually did some play etc. I'm sure NaMo's b'day will also be marked in some way on an annual basis. We had to write essays in a competition, just like this article https://www.thehindu.com/society/seasons-in-the-sun/article37451348.e Quote Instead we sometimes had to write an essay on some lofty nation-building topic. I would have liked Children’s Day to be a day where I could do as I pleased. Instead it was all about essays, sit-and-draw competitions, and skits that required rehearsals. It did not make me feel kindly about ‘Chacha Nehru’. PR exercise It galls me further to realise now that Chacha Nehru was probably a PR creation. It is true that he did establish the Children’s Film Society India in 1955 and said something about children being “buds in the garden” which should be “carefully and lovingly nurtured.” But an essay by Aakar Patel in Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of a Nation quotes the Australian High Commissioner, Walter Crocker, as saying that like all politicians Nehru had to occasionally perform for TV cameras. He wrote, “the acting was never worse than the pose of Chacha Nehru with the children.” Crocker, a great admirer of Nehru in general, had no patience for the parade of children with flowers that his sycophants organised on Nehru’s birthday because he felt “(Nehru’s) interest in children was slender”. It’s especially ironic that Nehru’s birthday became Children’s Day when his daughter by all accounts had a rather lonely childhood at the family mansion while the freedom struggle consumed her father and grandfather, and her mother was often unwell and ill-at-ease among her anglicised sisters-in-law. In the current season of Nehru-bashing, it’s a miracle that he has been allowed to hold on to Children’s Day. Congress calls NaMo's birthday as Bad Omen day Congress to mark PM Modi’s birthday as ‘Bad Omen Day,’ netizens say ‘no lesson learnt’ https://www.opindia.com/2021/09/congress-pm-modi-birthday-bad-omen-day-ridiculed-by-netizens/ Edited November 15, 2021 by coffee_rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcastic Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Happy Children's day by India's cricket captain. Really nice on his part.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxHxEeeGNM68chsSFrKQdG95gSM-O71BMw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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