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The Nehru Daur

Shyam Benegal — 2014-11-22T20:03:47Z

I remember the first time I saw Nehru.
It was soon after the police action that liberated Hyderabad from Nizam's rule. I must have been about 12 at the time. A friend of mine and I were walking towards a disused golf course close to my home where we often played cricket. It was early in the morning. Two horsemen came cantering along on their horses. One was General J.N. Chaudhuri who was the Military Governor of Hyderabad at the time and the second was Jawaharlal Nehru. He looked like a (…)

- 2014

A Finely Tuned Sensibility

Shyam Benegal — 2009-11-17T13:29:45Z

Aristocratic in taste, democratic by tempera-ment and egalitarian by conviction, Jawaharlal Nehru comes through as a man with a finely tuned artistic sensibility, with an unceasing curiosity in the world around him, never losing his sense of wonder at the marvels of life and the universe. His deep and abiding faith in humanity committed him to the cause of freedom not only for his own country but also for those countries from whom the right of self-determination was taken away.
For (…)

- November 2009

A Finely Tuned Sensibility

Shyam Benegal — 2008-11-16T01:36:57Z

Aristocratic in taste, democratic by temperament and egalitarian by conviction, Jawaharlal Nehru comes through as a man with a finely tuned artistic sensibility, with an unceasing curiosity in the world around him, never losing his sense of wonder at the marvels of life and the universe. His deep and abiding faith in humanity committed him to the cause of freedom not only for his own country but also for those countries from whom the right of self-determination was taken away. For him, (…)

- November 15, 2008