Month: April 1950

  • The Spirit of Science

    The Spirit of Science

    Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the opening of National Fuel Research Institute, Digwadih, Dhanbad, 22 April 1950. In the course of less than four months, we have put up, and declared open or rather wished to declare open three national laboratories*, and I suppose, before this year is out, some more national laboratories will also be…

  • The Meaning of Culture

    The Meaning of Culture

    Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the inauguration of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, New Delhi, 9 April 1950. I have come here with pleasure and yet with a great deal of confusion in my mind. The pleasure is that I have always looked forward to furthering the cause of cultural association of India with not…