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[Video] जवाहरलाल नेहरू का भारत: प्रोफ़ेसर अपूर्वानन्द

September 19, 2020
[Video] नेहरू की भारत संकल्पना: पुरुषोत्तम अग्रवाल

September 18, 2020
Why Embracing Gandhi without Nehru is not Feasible

February 11, 2019

By Naved Ashrafi On January 13, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi undertook his last fast that was six-day long. It was the last attempt of its kind by Gandhi against Hindu-Muslim riots in Delhi. In a bid to restore communal harmony in Delhi, Gandhi, through his fast, demanded that the lives of Muslims in the city must…
[Video] नेहरू के बारे में फैले तमाम झूठों का सच क्या है?

November 14, 2018
Fact Check: PM Modi claims no Congress leader visited Bhagat Singh in jail

May 10, 2018

Arjun Sidharth for Alt News “When Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Batukeshwar Dutt, Veer Savarkar, greats like them were jailed fighting for the country’s independence, did any Congress leader went to meet them? But the Congress leaders go and meet the corrupt who have been jailed”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally in Bidar, Karnataka…
[Video] Irfan Habib on Nehru’s 125th Birth Anniversary

November 19, 2016
राम की तरह असंभवों के समन्वय थे नेहरु: वाजपेयी

May 29, 1964

कहा जाता है कि लोकसभा में अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी की भाषणशैली से प्रभावित होकर जवाहरलाल नेहरू ने उन्हें भविष्य का प्रधानमंत्री कहा था (हालांकि, इस दावे की हिमायत में साक्ष्यों का अभाव है।)। वाजपेयी भी उनकी काफ़ी इज़्ज़त करते थे। नेहरू के निधन के बाद उन्होंने 29 मई 1964 को राज्यसभा में जो श्रद्धांजलि दी…
Nehru, a ‘Queer Mixture of East and West’, Led the Struggle for a Modern India

May 28, 1964

The New York Times, May 28, 1964 The story of Jawaharlal Nehru is the story of contemporary India, which he in large part has shaped. Mr. Nehru will be remembered also as the foremost exponent of the political doctrine of “nonalignment,” which influenced the foreign policy of India and many other nations emerging from colonialism. Mr.…

Jawaharlal will be my successor…

Do not please go away with the idea that there is a rift in the Congress. The working committee has worked like members of a happy family. Somebody suggested that Pandit Jawaharlal and I were estranged. It will require much more than the differences of opinion to estrange us.

We have had differences from the moment we became co-workers, and yet I have said for some years and say now that not Rajaji but Jawaharlal will be my successor.

He says he does not understand my language, and that he speaks a language foreign to me. This may or may not be true. But language is no bar to a union of hearts. And I know this that when I am gone, he will speak my language.

Mahatma Gandhi, AICC Meet, Wardha, 1942