Category: Speech
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1952
Five Years of Freedom Brothers and sisters, Today is the fifth anniversary of Indian Independence. Five years ago, on this day, we had assembled at this spot in the old city of Delhi and unfurled the flag of freedom from the ramparts of the Red Fort. It heralded the beginning of a new chapter in…
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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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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1951
For a Concerted Effort to End Poverty Four years are not a very long period in the life of a nation. Yet it is true that the last four years seem to be an age so far as India is concerned. Vital experiences the Indian people have passed through have apparently lengthened the span of…
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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1950
Unity and Equality Sisters and Brothers, This is the third anniversary of the independence of India. I congratulate you on this auspicious occasion. We have come a long way during these three years. We have stumbled and fallen but have picked ourselves up and gone on. I congratulate you for everything that has happened, good…
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Freedom and Responsibility
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at a public meeting, Thiruvananthapuram, 1 June 1950. You have heard of socialism and communism and the like, and personally I have always felt a considerable attraction towards the socialist theory. But whether you have socialism or any other “ism” or capitalism, the basic thing is that you must produce wealth first…
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The Spirit of Science
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the opening of National Fuel Research Institute, Digwadih, Dhanbad, 22 April 1950. In the course of less than four months, we have put up, and declared open or rather wished to declare open three national laboratories*, and I suppose, before this year is out, some more national laboratories will also be…
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The Meaning of Culture
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the inauguration of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, New Delhi, 9 April 1950. I have come here with pleasure and yet with a great deal of confusion in my mind. The pleasure is that I have always looked forward to furthering the cause of cultural association of India with not…
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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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From the Red Fort: Nehru’s Independence Day Address, 1949
Two Years of Independence I had flown the tri-colour for the first time from these ramparts two years ago. Two years have gone by in our lives and two years have been added to the thousands of years of India’s history. Two years are not very long in many thousands of years of history. But…