Next week, it will be 50 years since the Emergency was proclaimed by Indira Gandhi. Like last year, when the new parliament was constituted, it is bound to generate a lot of rhetoric, blame, ...

In 1964, with Nehru, this glorious tradition of writing fortnightly letters to chief ministers also died. In 2004, Manmohan Singh revived the tradition.

Nehru was a literary giant in his own right. His books had some interesting and essential nutrition at a time when it was very important for Indians to be well informed and well read. They are ...

The lucid, sharp writing of Tharoor gives us a beautiful picture of what Nehru was and being written in 2004 this book is prophetic, as we are really missing a Nehru from 2014 and the need has ...

While the matter of Sonia Gandhi taking away a huge chunk of donated Nehru papers – in 51 cartons in 2008 – was discussed at ...

The perception among Nehru’s contemporaries was that he would have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in literature if writing had been his main vocation.

Compare Nehru’s passage to Rushdie writing in the short story on migration, ‘The Courter’, from the anthology of short stories, East, West (1994): “I, too, have ropes around my neck. I ...

In 1930, Jawaharlal Nehru was sentenced to four years of prison. During this time, over 30 months, he wrote 196 exceptionally well-informed and detailed letters on human history to his 13-year-old ...

Jawaharlal Nehru attempted to teach her about politics and commerce while writing on a variety of topics, including the formation of the Earth . The Discovery of India ...

A child garlanding Nehru at a meeting Vagare Art Gallery, Wardha, Maharashtra, India, Mid 20th century, Silver gelatin print.

Writing about his grandfather in the 10th volume of Gandhi Marg journal, ... Nehru wrote in a letter to the chief ministers on October 1, 1959, 'No policy can be pursued through weakness or fear.