Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath interacts with children on the birth anniversary of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, which is also celebrated as Children's D...
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla (5L), senior BJP leader LK Advani (6L) and others pose for a group photograph after paying tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on hi...
Congress party workers pay floral tribute to Indias first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, also celebrated as Children's Day, in Prayagraj (Allahabad).
Congress President Sonia Gandhi pays floral tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary at Shanti Van, in New Delhi.
(L-R) Congress President Sonia Gandhi, former president Pranab Mukherjee, former vice president M Hamid Ansari and former PM Manmohan Singh after paying floral tribute to India's f...
Former president Pranab Mukherjee pays floral tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary at Shanti Van, in New Delhi.
Senior Congress leader and former PM Manmohan Singh pays floral tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary at Shanti Van, in New Delhi.
G.B. Pant with Pandit Nehru. The United Provinces CM ignored the PM’s call to “undo the wrong” of 1949.
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former President Pranab Mukherjee, former Vice President Md. Hamid Ansari and Congress President Rahul Gandhi at...
Former President Pranab Mukherjee pays tribute to Indias first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary, at his memorial Shanti Van in New Delhi.
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi pay tribute to Indias first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary, at his memorial Shanti V...
A rare document bearing Jawaharlal Nehru's signature in Hindi, English and Urdu seen at IIT Roorkee's iconic library in Haridwar district. In a visitor's notebook kept at the Mahat...
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and senior BJP leader L K Advani at a function to pay tribute to Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on his 129th birth...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor addresses during the launch of his book 'Nehru: The Invention of India' launch event, in New Delhi.
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor during latter's book 'Nehru: The Invention of India' launch event, in New Delhi.
Students pay floral tribute to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on his 129th birth anniversary, celebrated as Children's Day (Bal Diwas), at the historic Anand Bhawan in Allahabad.
Former president Pranab Mukherjee and former prime Minister Manmohan Singh after paying homage to Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 129th birth anniversary at Shanti Van in New Delhi.
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi paying homage to Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 129th birth anniversary at Shanti Van in New Delhi.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with former Congress President Sonia Gandhi after paying homage to Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru on his 129th birth anniversary at Shanti Van in New Del...
President Eisenhower with Nehru in Delhi, 1959
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May 27 was Nehru's 45th death anniversary. Inder Malhotra remembers the day in 1964 in the Indian Express:
Hafeez Jullundari — the nearest thing Pakistan had to the poet laureate as well as a sort of minister-in-waiting during the Sheikh’s stay — stalked up to our table and sat down. Wagging his finger, he told me: “Inder Malhotra, you people have had a long ride feeling superior to us because you were lucky to have Nehru. Our misfortune was that after the early deaths of Jinnah and Liaquat, all our leaders were useless. Now Nehru is about to go. You will be down to our level, and then we will see”....
...[Nehru] died at the precise moment when the Sheikh [Abdullah] set foot in Muzaffarabad. The thought uppermost in my mind was that the capital of Pakistan-held Kashmir was not the best place to to be in at the time of Nehru’s passing. But what followed stunned me.
The huge crowd that had assembled to welcome Sheikh Abdullah instantly turned into a mourning mass. Every man, woman and child, hands raised skywards, was praying for Nehru. Some of them were crying. No one touched the elaborate wazwan laid out. Suddenly, there was commotion at a short distance. A tall man was shouting my name, beating his head with both his hands and cursing his “black tongue”. It was Hafeez Jullundari. As he apologised to me profusely, Sheikh Sahib arrived to calm him. Instead, the two embraced each other and sobbed.
Read the full piece at the Indian Express
Inder Malhotra looks back on the first general election in the Indian Express:
Nehru got greatly depressed. What “filled him with dismay” was the selection of Congress candidates that he described as “disgusting”. What got his goat were the “cliques”, “bossism”, the “scramble” and “lack of organisation”... To Edwina Mountbatten he wrote: “More and more I hate this election business, more especially the choosing of candidates... ” ... that the Congress could hardly talk of principles when so many of its members were “snarling” for selection and “third-rate individuals were being chosen on grounds of caste and sub-caste. I have felt recently as if I was in a den of wild animals”.
...Looking back at newspaper headlines of January 1952, I am startled to discover that some of them are still with us, albeit with greater frequency and intensity. A few samples in point are “Congress Banks on Muslim Support”; “Caste Rivalries Weaken Bihar Congress”; “List of Nominees Causes Wider Split”. “Autonomy Demand in Manipur”. “Ministers Face Stiff Opposition” and so on. Sadly, one headline, ubiquitous then, we are unlikely to see all too often is “Polling Was Peaceful”. +
Read the full piece: The First Vote Cast
