Nehru, Jawaharlal
1889-1964 75 years
1889-1964 75 years
First President of modern post British India (1949-)
born Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Kashmiri lineage, Brahmin family
father: lawyer
lawyer, educated in India and Britain
married Kamala, a Kashmiri girl (died 1936)
non-aligned in the cold-war era, but the
Nehru/Gandhi family was considered liberal/socialist
in outlook.
daughter Indira became a later Indian President
('68--), assasinated.
grandson Rajiv became President ('84-),
assasinated.
born Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Kashmiri lineage, Brahmin family
father: lawyer
lawyer, educated in India and Britain
married Kamala, a Kashmiri girl (died 1936)
non-aligned in the cold-war era, but the
Nehru/Gandhi family was considered liberal/socialist
in outlook.
daughter Indira became a later Indian President
('68--), assasinated.
grandson Rajiv became President ('84-),
assasinated.
| When Jawaharlal Nehru died, a small slip of paper was found on his pillow. In his own handwriting he had noted a few lines of Robert Frost: The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep. He must have written it just before he died. ‘The woods are lovely...' Everybody has to go alone; you cannot keep company. Because you have to go inwards you can only go alone. ‘The woods are lovely...' because the woods are of your inner being. If you go for an outer pilgrimage, you can have company; somebody can be with you: a beloved, a friend, a relative, a fellow-traveler. But the woods are lovely because the woods are of your inner being – you have to go alone... --Osho Come Follow to You, Vol. 3, ch. 2 |
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