Release of Prahlada's Record: We Want to See the 21st Century Television Interview

Peace. It's something we all hope for, but most of us feel it's up to the world leaders to achieve it, and not us. But there is a young 12-year-old in town, Prahlad, who's urging all children to speak out about peace. Prahlad's already pretty well known for his songs with a peace theme, and tomorrow, EMI Records are releasing Prahlad's single, We Want to See the 21st Century.

And this video clip has been made to go with it. We'll be talking to Prahlad in a moment. Love that chorus. It's really beautiful, isn't it? what inspired your songs for peace pillar well i watched many documentaries on martin luther king and kennedy and um also um songs like we are the world by lana ritchie and um so in the international year of peace last year i thought that maybe i'd also try to give my contribution yeah i noticed in one of your songs the words go something like he came to me now was this also inspiration you Yeah, that's referring to the inspiration from Kennedy and also from our movement's founder, Acharya, for Prabhupada.

So this is the sort of Hare Krishna drive for peace, is it? Yeah. Now, interestingly, you went with your mother and father, who are members of the Hare Krishna movement, I take it? Yeah.

You went to India? Yeah, I went to India for three years. And to study what? studying just um you know english maths and arithmetic and also indian culture and why were your parents there looking at at the situation in india yeah or were they studying they're also studying you know harakrishna lifestyle and culture like that yeah which began in india yeah yeah now you mentioned also kennedy so do you get involved in politics you know about reagan kennedy oh yeah we have social studies in our curriculum and we discuss things like that do you yeah and what do you think is the problem about peace in the world well um there's everyone has to unite together and form like um a body like we're all god's children so we all have to um look at each other as brothers and sisters and come together unite together so it really starts at home yeah if you're peaceful at home then it spreads a little bit you think peace like charity begins at home that's very good is that one of your things that that you learn at school yeah what is your school like tell us about it well um our school we learn everything that is learned in a normal school also with our um harakrishna um studies and you sing and dance yeah we sing and dance and play the dingle dingle dangles or whatever they call them yeah cartels cartels yeah why don't they come out on the streets anymore in melbourne i think because um we're working on our moomba float i'm very busy working on the moomba float so we don't have time to come out.

And that's going to be something really extravagant, is it? Yes. Tell me, you're a very happy boy, you don't just do schoolwork at your camp at Mawillumbah, what do you do? Well, in the afternoons, see we have a six-day school, and so in the afternoons we have free time, rather than having us five days and work also in the afternoon.

You have your own cows and grow your own vegetables and everything? Yes, on the afternoons we go help in the garden or we milk the cows. Can you walk a cow? Yeah, I can walk a cow.

Fantastic. I wish we had a cow here. But I want to go back to the end of that song because I like the bit where all the children come in. Can we just have a listen to this?

Okay.