Prahlada Interview about Mr Regan song

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, Prahlada, who's urging all children to speak out about peace. Prahlada's already pretty well known for his songs with a peace theme and tomorrow EMI Records are releasing Prahlada'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 Prahlada in a moment. Love that chorus is really beautiful, isn't it?

What inspired your songs for Peace, Prahlada? Well, I watched many documentaries on Martin Luther King and Kennedy and also songs like We Are the World, Balloon and Witchy and so in the International Year of Peace last year I thought that maybe I'd also try to give my contribution. I noticed in one of your songs the words go something like he came to me. Now was this also inspiration you think? Yeah, that's referring to the inspiration from Kennedy and also from our movements found in Australia for Prahlada.

So this is the sort of Harry Krishna drive for peace, is it? Yeah. Now interestingly you went with your mother and father who are members of the Harry Krishna movement I'd take it. Yeah. You went to India? Yeah, I went to India for three years.

And to study what? I was studying just English, Maths and Mathematics and also Indian culture. And why were your parents there looking at the situation in India? Yeah. Or were they studying, does that have a... No, they were also studying the Harry Krishna 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? Well yeah, we have social studies in our curriculum. We discuss things like that.

Do you? Yeah. And what do you think is a problem about peace in the world? Well, everyone has to unite together and form like a body, like well God's children. So we all have to 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 springs a little bit, you think? Peace, like charity, begins at home. Yeah. Is that one of your things that you learn at school? Yeah.

What is your school like? Tell us about it. Well, at school we learn everything that is learnt at an enormous school, also with our Harry Krishna studies. And you sing and dance? Yeah, we sing and dance. And play the 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 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 school work at your camp at Moillambar. What do you do? Well, in the afternoons, see we have a six day school.

Yeah. And so in the afternoons we have free time. Yeah. Rather than having us five days and work also in the afternoon. You have your own cows and your own vegetables and everything? Yes.

So in the afternoons we go help in the garden or we milk the cows. Can you milk a cow? Yeah, I can milk 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.