JAWAHARLAL NEHRU SAID

 

                JAWAHARLAL NEHRU SAID

            Jawaharlal Nehru was free India’s first Prime Minister. He was born on 14 November 1889 at Allahabad and died in New Delhi on 27 May 1964.

            He is known not only as an anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, an idealist, a visionary statesman of international stature but also an outstanding writer.

            His three most important and widely books are : The Discovery of India (1946),  An Autobiography (1936) and Glimpses of World History (1934).

            His birth day (14 November) is celebrated as Children’s Day and because of his “affectionate bond with the younger generation, he is widely remembered by the endearing title “Chacha Nehru” (Uncle Nehru).

            Given below are some of his memorable quotes.

*A culture that cannot understand modern times is an incomplete culture.

*A person should have the capacity to think, to act, and to decide.

*No democracy can exist for long in the midst of want and poverty and inequality.

*It is the children of science who have made the world of today.

*Peace cannot be purchased by compromise with evil or by surrender to it. Nor can peace be maintained by methods that themselves are the negation of peace.

*A nation’s work never ends. Men may come and go, generations may pass but the life of a nation goes on. We must remember the basic fact that we can achieve little unless there is peace in the country, no matter what policy we pursue.      

*Communalism is the badge of a backward nation, not of the modern age. People have their religion and they have a right to hold firmly to it, but to import religion into politics and to break up the country is something which was done in Europe 300 or 400 years back. We in India have to get rid of it.

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G.R.Kanwal

27 May 2026