"Nehru was the first of the Afro Asians. He stated on the anti colonial struggle fifty years ago when joining an anti _colonial movement meant not the glory of quick independence and high office, but a grim prospect of interminable hardship and repression....
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It was different for those who joined in anti _colonial movements after the Second World War...He gave his unceasing support to all the anti colonial revolutions elsewhere in Asia and Africa...
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We... also received his support and were inspired by India's struggle for freedom"___Lee Kuan Yew( 1923__2015) was the first prime minister of Singapore who oversaw it's transformation from a British crown colony to a flourishing sovereign nation.
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Taken from__ Who is Bharat Mata? On History, Culture and the Idea of India.
Writings by and on Jawaharlal Nehru, India and the World on Nehru, page number 468.
Edited by @puru_ag .
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"We have a great deal of evidence to show that the R.S.S. is an organisation which is in the nature of a private army and which is definitely proceeding on the strictest Nazi lines, even following the technique of organisation.
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It is not our desire to interfere with civil liberties. But training in arms of large numbers of persons with the obvious intention of using them is not something that can be encouraged.
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The fact that the R.S.S. is definitely and deliberately against the present central and provincial governments need not be considered enough for any action to be taken against them and any legitimate propaganda might certainly be allowed.
"Ever since I have been going to Bhowali, I have tried as gently but as persistently as possible to approach her mind, to explain to her my outlook . . . I was beginning to hope that we were drawing nearer to each other . . .
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I felt attracted to her and a little fascinated by this mental adventure. And then suddenly I saw that all my efforts had been wholly in vain. She was further away than ever from me and an almost unbridgeable chasm stretched out between us.
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She hardly seemed to realize the significance of what she had said. But I was struck dumb and an utter loneliness took possession of me.’Jawaharlal’s belated discovery of Kamala was best expressed in the last lines of poetry he gave to her:
"I have occasion frequently these days to participate in functions marking the inauguration of some new work or completion of some other. Today, you and I and all these persons have gathered here on one such occasion.
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I want to know from you what you think and feel in your minds and hearts on this occasion, because in my heart and mind there is a strange exhilaration and excitement, and many kinds of pictures come before me.
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Many dreams we have dreamt are today drawing near and being materialised. For the materialisation of these dreams, we may praise one another, and those who have done good work should be praised. But how many can be praised when the list runs to thousands, nay, lakhs?
" On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognising the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value.
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In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value. How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions?
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How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril.
1950 January 26, Thursday; FIRST DAY OF THE REPUBLIC
After several days of bone-chilling weather, brilliant sunshine greeted New Delhi on January 26, 1950. The mood in the capital was electric.
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People were exchanging greetings for the new era that had just dawned under the new Constitution.
For Rajendra Prasad, it was a hectic day. He started with a visit to Rajghat to pay homage to the Mahatma.
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Immediately after returning, he was swo-rn in as the country’s first president at around 9 am by the governor general of India, C Rajagopalachari at the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to have freedom and to enjoy the fruits of their toil and have the necessities of life, so that they may have full opportunities of growth.
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We believe also that if any government deprives a people of these rights and oppresses them the people have a further right to alter it or to abolish it.
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The British Government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom but has based itself on the exploitation of the masses, and has ruined India economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually.