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What is the meaning of Nationalism?
Below is the portion of a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru at a public meeting in Bhopal on June 01, 1954. To Nehru, Nationalism was to unite the country and contribute in unison to its progress. History points out two things, the first, as I said, is our internal feuds, and the second, our overweening pride and feeling…
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Challenges in Administration
Speech of Jawaharlal Nehru at the inauguration of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, March 29, 1954. The first problem that one has to face on such an occasion as this is what language to speak in. Coming fresh from Parliament today, where there was some impatient talk on the language issue, this…
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The Concept of Man
Speech at the UNESCO symposium, New Delhi, December 20, 1951 I am grateful to you for this opportunity of attending the last session of this Symposium. I must apologize for not having attended the opening session to welcome you all here. I looked forward to it greatly, not merely to perform the formal function of…
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Jawaharlal Nehru on Museums
Speech at the Centenary celebration of the Madras Government Museum and the opening of the National Art Gallery, Madras, November 27, 1951. I am grateful to you for inviting me to inaugurate this Centenary Celebration because I am deeply interested in museums in my own layman’s way. I am not an expert in anything but…
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The Gandhian Technique: Nehru’s speech at the University of Chicago, 1949
You know that during the last thirty years or so, we carried on rather intensively our campaign for India’s freedom. We did not begin it; it was there. It had been continued for generations before us but it came more to the world’s notice then, because a world figure stepped into the arena of Indian…
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World Health and the WHO
Inaugural speech of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at the first meeting of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization for South-East Asia, New Delhi, October 4, 1948. I join the Health Minister in offering you, Delegates, a very warm welcome on behalf of our Government. I should just like to add a few words to that…
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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