India, Nov. 10 -- With Children's Day, 14th November, falling on a Saturday this year, the nation's children will be cheated out of a fun holiday. However, a workaround is quite likely in the works, given that schoolteachers look forward to this day with as much excitement as their wards - it's the day they get to be goofy on stage for the children's benefit.

How much the children squealing in delight at their teachers' antics will know about the man whose birthday they are commemorating, Chacha Nehru, is moot. But one of the delightful stories that explains just why our first Prime Minister was so beloved of children traces roots to his first post-independence visit to Bangalore and Mysore, in December 1948.

Earlier the same year, on S...