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Universal Children's Day   In 1954, the United Nations with discretion has recognized November 20 as Universal Children's Day to create attentiveness on the commitment on the development of children and ensure a better future. Numerous suggestions  have been made pertaining to Children's Day celebration dates. In 1925, the World Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, has recognized June 1 to observe the International Children's Day. But, in 1954 the United Nationals General Assembly has approved November 20 as Universal Children's Day with the objective to promote the wellbeing of the children and celebrate childhood. The UN has also recommended that the Day should be devoted to promote the well-being of children and to uplift their social rights.   Children's Day in India   India observes  Children's Day 2011 on November 14. Children's Day coincides with the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India after Independence.                  Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru         (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964)    Children's Day celebration commemorates Jawaharlal Nehru for his affection towards children and faith that education of children could propel the country's progress.    In  India  Children's Day celebration  includes a wide range of innovative and fun filled activities at schools and children fairs. Various competitions, Children's Day poems, dance and feast is organized by schools and community groups to mark the event and make it a special day for children to enjoy childhood.   Children's Day festival can be witnessed of exchanging 'Happy Children's Day' wishes with the collection of lovely SMS or messages in varied languages to spread and share the significance of the festival. The day is marked with a lot of activities for children. But   only a section of the country’s children actually have an opportunity to celebrate their existence. Schools organize events and activities that their students thoroughly enjoy, but there is an entire populace of young ones that are left ignored on this special day – the downtrodden street children.    Celebrating Children’s Day was globally instituted to provide children with basic Rights and giving children the right to enjoy and grow into healthy and educated citizens of the country.  On this day you can be a sponsor the education of an unprivileged child and providing better living conditions for street children

A 7-year-old wins Doodle4Google 2011    Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from Ryan International School, Greater Noida, was chosen as the winner of this year's (2011) Doodle4Google competition organised by Google. Varsha's winning doodle, titled 'Indian Musical Instruments' will appear on the Google India homepage on Children's Day - 14th November 2011. Explaining her doodle, Varsha writes, "India is a land of different cultures. In India, music plays a very important role. India has given many musical instruments to the world. Goddess Saraswati plays Veena, God Shiv plays Damaru.    According to our mythological stories musical instruments used to be played on all the occasions. Even during war musical instruments were played. Lord Krishna's flute is known in the whole world for its magical music. In modern days Mr. Zakir Hussain is world famous as Tabla Mastro and Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is known as a great Santoor player all over the world". Google India, presented Varsha with the winning certificate along with a technology starter package including a laptop, a year's Internet connection and a Rs 2,00,000 technology grant for her school.   Shibajyoti Choudhury (Group I) from Jamshedpur won the group prize for his doodle 'Developing excellent India and World'; Abhinav R (Group II) from Coimbatore won the prize for his doodle titled 'India's contribution to the world - Tradition'. And Nishi Bordia (Group III) from Indore won the prize for her doodle titled 'India's gift to the world - India itself'. Google received over 1,55,000 entries from across India for its third Doodle4Google competition in the country.    International children`s film fest 2011 in Hyderabad    Hyderabad gears up for International children`s film fest Hyderabad: The prestigious International Children`s Film Festival (ICFF) will be held here from November 14 with renowned filmmakers, actors and movie buffs expected to converge for the seven-day biennial event. B Venkatesam, chief coordinator of the event, said the number of children film entries, drawn from about 50 countries has gone up to a record number of 700, as compared to 300 in 2009.   The screening committee has selected around 150 films for the fest, as compared to 75 in 2009. In the feature film category, a total of 40 countries are taking part with 80 feature films and 70 short films. The committee has effected certain changes in the categorisation this year. There would be 15 awards in four competitive categories. The number of entries selected under these categories are: International (15 films), India (10 films), Shorts (24 films) and Little Directors (11 films), officials said.    In the festival a separate category `In Focus China` has been introduced. Under this section, six Chinese children`s films will be screened.The festival will have representation from Africa and South America for the first time.

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