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How Nehru reacted on being declared as ‘Tenth Avatar’ of Lord Vishnu !!
On 3rd August 1959, Y. B. Chavan, the Chief Minister of Bombay, told the Bombay Legislative Assembly that there was a Shri Jawahar Shakti Mandal at Dabhoda village in Ider Taluka of Sabarkanta District (now in Gujarat). This body of village folks was worshiping Jawaharlal Nehru as the ‘tenth avatar’. This incident was reported by…
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Jawaharlal Nehru: A Guiding Force in Our Past, Present, and Future
Nehru’s fantastic effort to raise India from what Tagore called the ‘mud and filth’ left behind by the British has now been replaced with the Indian people being pushed back into that same ‘mud and filth’ of ignorance, obscurantism, dis-empowerment, unfreedom and above all communal hatred. The following text is Aditya Mukherjee’s presidential address at…
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साहिर लुधियानवी की नज़्म “जवाहरलाल नेहरु” (व्याख्या सहित)
नवेद अशरफ़ी जिस्म की मौत कोई मौत नहीं होती है जिस्म मिट जाने से इंसान नहीं मर जाते व्याख्या: साहिर लुधियानवी लिखते हैं कि शरीर का अंत होने से मनुष्य का अंत नहीं होता। यदि शरीर नष्ट भी हो जाए तो इससे मनुष्य नहीं मर जाता। धड़कनें रुकने से अरमान नहीं मर जाते साँस थम जाने से ऐलान…
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What India Would Have Been Without Nehru
By Manoj Joshi Trying to erase Nehru’s imprint on the country is a tall order because he is part of modern India’s DNA. Throw Nehru out of the equation and you end up undermining India. Writing in the Sunday Times of India, Amulya Gopalakrishnan recently brought out the huge Nehru vilification industry that exists across…
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A meeting with farmers that changed Nehru
By Naved Ashrafi More than two years back exactly from these days when farmers have now inched their way towards the national capital of India vociferously protesting against new farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while campaigning for the upcoming assembly elections in Rajasthan in 2018, said that a Congress leader used to wear a…
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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