Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote many letters to his daughter Indira gandhi in the summer of 1928 when she was in Himalayas at Mussoorie. They were personal letters addressed to a little girl,ten years of age.They were quite informative , telling a child about the world. Some of his letters were on the topics like

* The making of earth
* The first living things
* The early man
* How different races were formed
* The races and languages of mankind
* How Religion began and Division of Labour
* The changes brought about by Agriculture
* The great cities of ancient world
* China and India
* Different classes of people
* Fossils and ruins
* The Ramayana and the Mahabharata