Letters from a father to his daughter.
- Jawaharlal Nehru.
A very interesting book.
I travelled millions of yrs in time with his letters. Right from the time of formation of our earth,..to the Ice age...the Pre-historic times..understanding evolution of life on this earth....to the evolution of man - to the stone age- the beginning to civilizations...development of races, languages, countries, cultures etc...
These letters were written to his 10 years old daughter. He wanted her to understand and appreciate many things..
like why people of different countries look different ? why are there different races...and what does it mean to us...
why are there different languages? different religions?..
why do we have money? why kings? why classes? why rich and poor? ...
and many other things
I wish he had written more such letters....
I did not know that most people of Europe, Northern India..and some other regions...though they differ so much from each other ...are really descended from the same ancestors - the Aryans. ?
And that the languages - Sanskrit, German, Italian, Greek, English, and French, are all cousins and belong to the same Aryan family?
and I learnt many more such interesting things.... :-)
A good book - is such a treat.
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