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" Communalism is neither good religion nor good politics. Communalism has caused damage to the country in the past.

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Therefore, we must understand that all those who live in this country, irrespective of their religion and the province to which they belong,

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have eq ual rights and that suppression of any one of them by the others, by law or by tradition, is wrong because it harms the nation and weakens it. So the basic policies we may formulate , is the unity of the country, regional and religious unity."~Jawaharlal Nehru

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Taken from the speech at a public meeting in Calcutta, 13 December 1953. From AIR tapes, NMML. Original in Hindi. Extracts.
Reference___Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, 1 October 1953_31 October 1954, Second Series, Volume 24, page number 59.

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12 Nov

" When I talk about an independent foreign policy for India, other people talk about the neutral attitude of India. I object to the word "neutral" . We are not neutral.

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We have positive ideas . When we talk of an independent foreign policy for India, some countries criticize it and do not understand it. They ask " what is this"? Yet, in the final analysis, what does an independent policy for India mean?

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It means refusal to be pushed about by others this way or that way. It means deciding what you want to do yourself.

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12 Nov

"Communal organisations are the clearest example of extreme narrowness of outlook, strutting about in the guise of nationalism. In the name of unity, they separate and destroy. In social terms they represent the reaction of the worst type.

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We may condemn these communal organisations, but there are many others who are not free from this narrow influence.

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Oddly enough, the very largeness of India, which is a word in itself , tends to make the people living in it complacent, rather ignorant of the rest of the world, and narrow minded. We have to contend against these forces."~Jawaharlal Nehru.

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11 Nov

"...I see also something that pains me greatly. I see poverty. I see little children, the lovely and beautiful children of India, without food, sometimes without clothing, without proper shelter, education and health care,

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and I feel very angry if even one single child of India should suffer so. Every child of India has a right to demand that the necessities of life should be given to it, that a full opportunity of growing up properly must be provided for.

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Looking at this picture, I grow impatient and a little angry at myself and others, that we progress so slowly. Why can we not tackle these problems of poverty and unemployment more speedily?

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11 Nov

"In India, there are differences in several aspects. But I see India here in its amazing diversity, in its richness, and also in its amazing unity.

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I want you to keep and preserve this rich diversity, and I also want to lay great emphasis on the essential unity.

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For India is like a rich cloth or tapestry woven by threads which make it strong, and also rich in colour. We must not do anything to weaken the texture of the fabric of India."__Jawaharlal Nehru.

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