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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…
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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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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