Category: Speech
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1957
Economic Freedom is the Next Step Brothers, sisters and children, I am happy that this rain has come. It might have worried some of you whose clothes are slightly drenched. But in this rain I see a symbol of our country’s prosperity, of its becoming green and fertile and our hearts also being refreshed. Children,…
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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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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1956
Renewing the Pledge Jai Hind. Greetings to all of you on the ninth anniversary of Indian independence. The new star of independent India blazed out in the firmament nine years ago. India was new and yet very old too, at the same time, a country moulded by centuries of experience and by the sacrifice, hard work,…
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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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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1955
Decisions through Peaceful Means Today we are assembled once again on the anniversary of India s independence. Greetings to everyone on this auspicious occasion. Do you remember that day when we reached this goal after a long journey and many ups and downs? Many people stumbled and fell, picked themselves up and moved on again.…
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India and the Outside World
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at a public meeting, Ramlila Maidan, Delhi, 28 November 1954. Our proceedings seem to have begun a little before time. It is a good sign to do work early. Radha Ramanji said just now that I am addressing a public meeting for the first time after returning from China. That is not quite correct. because I addressed…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1954
The Meaning of Freedom Brothers, sisters and friends, Greetings on the anniversary of Independence of new India. It has been seven years since this new India was bom, seven years since we became free. We celebrate this anniversary every year under the ramparts of Red Fort because on this day, for all of us, the…
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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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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1953
India Faces Tremendous Tasks Today is the sixth birthday of free India—the sixth anniversary of the day that we were re-born. Greetings to all of you on this occasion. We must first pay homage to the memory of that soul who was responsible for making India free, who breathed fresh life into a withered nation…