In this file photo, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru welcomes Britain's Prince Philip to New Delhi, India. The Prince is on the first stage of his round-the-world-tour and i...
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy and his cabinet colleagues pay floral tributes at the statue of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on the occasion of his birth anniver...
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pays tribute to the first prime minister late Jawahar Lal Nehru on his birth anniversary, in Patna
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pays floral tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, at Shanti Van in New Delhi.
Children wave from a tram during a joy ride on the occasion of birth anniversary of first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, celebrated as Childrens Day, in Kolkata.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, at Shanti Van in New Delhi.
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa pays floral tribute to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 56th death anniversary, in Bengaluru.
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy pays floral tributes along with other ministers at the portrait of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 56th death anniversary, at...
Congress party workers pay floral tributes to India's first Prime Minister Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on his 56th death anniversary, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Prayagraj.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh along with party workers pays tributes to India's first Prime Minister Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on his 56th death anniversary, during the ongoing C...
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.
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
