Tuesday, 14 November Bal Diwas 2017 in India Children's Day is celebrated across India on November 14, the birth anniversary of the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, fondly called Chacha Nehru. He is often cited as saying that children should always be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. Here are some of the stirring quotes from the speech that is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century: 1. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. 2. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. 3. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future? 4. Freedom and pow...