Category: Speech
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Nehru’s Speech: Science and Humility
Speech of Jawaharlal Nehru at the Science Congress, Calcutta, January 14, 1957 I am coming here today from Hirakud where I performed or helped in the opening ceremony of a very magnificent piece of work of Indian engineers, the great Hirakud Dam. This, I am told, is the longest in the world. A day before…
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Aspects of Administration
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech in Second Annual General Body Meeting of Indian Institute of Public Administration. (April 7, 1956) Friends, for the third time you have elected me as your President. For the tliird time I have come to this hall to preside over this function, and in between I have done nothing in regard to…
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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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Education is Meant to Free the Spirit of Man
Below is the convocation address by Jawaharlal Nehru to AMU students on January 24, 1948 I have come back to Aligarh and to this university after a long interval. We have been separated not only by a distance of time but also by a distance of spirit and outlook. I do not quite know where…
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Universities Stand for Tolerance
This is the text of speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru on December 13, 1947 in special convocation of University of Allahabad. I have come back after a long while to my home town of Allahabad to which I have almost become a stranger. During these past fifteen months I have lived in New Delhi, next…