Category: Press
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How Nehru reacted on being declared as 10th Avatar of Vishnu!
On 3rd August 1959, Y. B. Chavan, the Chief Minister of Bombay, told the Bombay Legislative Assembly that there was a Shri Jawahar Shakti Mandal at Dabhoda village in Ider Taluka of Sabarkanta District (now in Gujarat). This body of village folks was worshiping Jawaharlal Nehru as the ‘tenth avatar’. This incident was reported by…
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Nehru, a ‘Queer Mixture of East and West’, Led the Struggle for a Modern India
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.…
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Need for All to Work Together
Statement to the press. New Delhi, 19 April 1949. On the eve of my departure [1] undertaking a long journey and going out of the country, I should like to say a few words to the refugees or the displaced persons in India. Their lot has been a hard one and no problem has given…
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Shun the Narrow Outlook
Jawaharlal Nehru’s address to Bihar Political Conference, Muzaffarpur, 2 April 1949. The people of India should realize their responsibilities in the new set up of independent India and never indulge in narrow outlook. The R.S.S., particularly took up from narrow communalism its slogans and principles which always had been responsible for the downfall of India.…