Remember Tomorrow

Remember Tomorrow I n 1898, Lord Curzon was appointed as Viceroy of India and arrived in the country from England. He had two daughters. Lady Curzon was expecting her third child, and she and Lord Curzon both wanted it to be a boy. But, it so happened that their third child, too, turned out to be a girl. She was born in 1904. At that time, the Curzons were staying in a place called Naldera, and so they named their daughter Alexandra Naldera Curzon. When Lady Curzon went back to London and Lord Curzon was in Shimla, he sent her a letter, trying to comfort her, because both of them had badly wanted a son. He wrote: After all, what does sex matter after we are both of us gone? In penning these words, Lord Curzon tried to conceal his sorrow. But if people permit the broader implications of these words to become deeply embedded in their awareness, then half the world’s problems will be solved. Wealth, children, power—these are the things that people desire most, to get which they are ready to do just about anything. But if you start thinking what the use is of acquiring these things if in a few days’ time you have to abandon them and move on, following your departure from this world, you will experience a deep