Mainstream Weekly

A Pilgrim in Quest of Truth

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2018-01-27T17:26:25Z

January 30 this year marks the seventieth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing excerpts from a piece that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in homage to the pioneer of our freedom struggle three years after Gandhiji's martyrdom.
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. . . What gods there are, I know not and am not concerned about them. But there are certain rare qualities which raise a man above the common herd and appear to make him as made of (…)

- 2018

The Greatest Treasure

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2017-01-31T13:58:16Z

January 30 this year marks the sixtyninth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom. We offer our homage to his indelible memory by reproducing the following excerpts from Jawaharlal Nehru's statement in the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948, that is, within three days of the assassination of the Father of the Nation.
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I am not quite sure in my own mind if it is exactly fitting for me or for any others of this House to say much on this occasion, for I have a sense of utter (…)

- 2017

Nehru for Today

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2015-11-16T20:43:25Z

Jawaharlal Nehru's 126th birth anniversary falls on November 14, 2015. On this occasion we are reproducing the following excerpts from Nehru's speeches and writings that are of exceptional relevance today.
Before I am anxious about anything today, it is the communal spirit in India. Before I can deal with the communal spirit of Pakistan, I want to deal with the communal spirit in India, the communal spirit of the Hindus and Sikhs more than that of the Muslims. I want this House to realise (…)

- 2015

Mahatma Gandhi

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2013-02-05T05:24:39Z

On the occasion of the sixtyfifth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom on January 30 this year, we offer our sincere homage to his abiding memory by reproducing excerpts from two speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru to explain Gandhiji's significance before the US audience in October 1949.
You know that during the last thirty years or so, we carried on rather intensively our campaign for India's freedom. We did not begin it; it was there. It had been continued for genrations before us but it (…)

- 2013

Lenin

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2012-04-30T21:19:19Z

April 22 this year marked the 142nd birth anniversary of that immortal revolutionary, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. On this occasion we remember him by reproducing the following excerpts from Nehru's article on him that appeared in The Hindu (April 5, 1928).
‘I know a pair of eyes which have been for ever numbed by the burning sorrow of the Terror,' said Gorky of Lenin. This sorrow did not leave him to the end. It made him a fierce fanatic and gave him the strength of will to persevere and (…)

- 2012

A Radiant Figure

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2012-01-31T16:43:04Z

On January 30 this year falls the sixtyfourth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination. On this occasion we remember the Father of the Nation by reproducing excerpts from a piece that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in homage to the pioneer of our freedom struggle three years after Gandhiji's demise.
What gods there are, I know not; and I am not concerned about them. But there are certain rare qualities which raise a man above the common herd and make him appear as though he were of different (…)

- 2012

The Greatest Treasure

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2011-01-31T01:44:00Z

January 30 this year marks the sixtythird anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom. We offer our homage to his indelible memory by reproducing the following excerpts from Jawaharlal Nehru's statement in the Constituent Assembly on February 2, 1948, that is, within three days of the assassination of the Father of the Nation.
I am not quite sure in my own mind if it is exactly fitting for me or for any others of this House to say much on this occasion, for I have a sense of utter shame both (…)

- 2011

Lenin

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2010-04-26T19:18:00Z

Remembering Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on his one hundred and fortieth birth anniversary on April 22, 2010, we are reproducing excerpts from the following article by Jawaharlal Nehru that appeared in The Hindu (April 5, 1928).
‘I know a pair of eyes which have been for ever numbed by the burning sorrow of the Terror,' said Gorky of Lenin. This sorrow did not leave him to the end. It made him a fierce fanatic and gave him the strength of will to persevere and achieve. But sorrow for the (…)

- 2010

India Will Be What We Are

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2009-08-19T08:05:48Z

Jawaharlal Nehru's broadcast to the nation on August 15, 1948 is noteworthy because the words he uttered then hold considerable importance for our contemporary political life. Excerpts from that address are being reproduced here. —Editor
Let us not forget where we have failed or where we have erred. For our failures and errors have been many. Some of these are obvious enough, but the real failure has been a failure of the spirit and a falling away from the high standards set by the Father (…)

- August 2009

Aruna Asaf Ali

Jawaharlal Nehru — 2009-07-18T10:16:37Z

It is easy to criticise any set of views in this complicated world that we live in. And Aruna Asaf Ali often says and writes something that is liable to criticism. But that criticism, however justified, would be poor stuff, for it would deal with some superficial aspect of a living, vibrant and challenging personality, who has shaken up many a sleeping person and become in many ways a symbol of these changing times.
Symbols are often disturbing and challenges are disconcerting. And (…)

- July 2009