Letters for a Nation: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief Ministers
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Letters for a Nation: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief Ministers

Nehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963. Three letters from “Letters for A Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers (1947-1963)”, edited by Madhav Khosla.

Independence Day Speech, 1957
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Independence Day Speech, 1957

“We have completed one journey of consolidating our freedom, the foundations of which were laid a hundred years ago by our people with their blood, sweat and tears… We have today to remember the lessons of unity, religious tolerance and fellow feeling taught by Mahatma Gandhi and other great sons of India and go forward in a united and determined manner.”

‘A Glory has Departed’: Nehru’s Forgotten Speech on Gandhi’s Assassination
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‘A Glory has Departed’: Nehru’s Forgotten Speech on Gandhi’s Assassination

Full text of Nehru’s speech to the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948: “A glory has departed and the sun that warmed and brightened our lives has set and we shiver in the cold and dark.”