Synopsis When Indira Gandhi was a little girl of ten, she spent the summer in Mussoorie, while her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was busy working in Allahabad. Over the summer, Nehru wrote her a series of letters in which he told her the story of how and when the earth was made, how human and animal life began, and how civilization and societies evolved all over the world. Written in 1928, these letters remain fresh and vibrant, and capture. Nehru's love for people and for nature, whose story was for him 'more interesting than any other story or novel that you may have read'.