Tag: Educational Institutions
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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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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 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 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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The Gandhian Approach to the Language Problem
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech on laying the foundation stone of Central Institute of Education, Delhi University, 18 April 1949. Although I have to make preparations for my journey to London, I felt it necessary to be present here on this occasion in view of the importance of the work for which this Institute is meant. Sometimes, doubts assail me…
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Facing the Future
Jawaharlal Nehru’s address to the students of Delhi University, 9 April 1949. I like addressing students because I am eager to find out what sort of persons they are. Despite the revolutionary changes which have occurred, I hope they feel themselves strong enough to face anything the future holds in store for them. We have…
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Science and Progress
Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech at the foundation of the Palaeobotany Institute at Lucknow, 3 April 1949. Science, a scientific approach to problems and a scientific outlook, have to be developed if India has to progress in the modern world. Science is a search for truth. It is a rational method of looking at things in their…
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Agricultural Research in India
Address of Jawaharlal Nehru to the students of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 20 March 1949. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute was established in 1905 at Pusa in Bihar and later shifted to New Delhi in 1934. The primary function of the Institute includes the conducting of basic and applied research in the…
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Work and More Work
Convocation address of Jawaharlal Nehru at Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, 20 March 1949. Mrs. Rustomji Faridoonji [1] and Friends, Always at such functions there is an initial and primary difficulty about the language one should use, and sometimes that difficulty is got over by a bilingual effort. Well, Mrs. Rustomji tells me that I…
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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…