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An Autobiography with Musings on Recent Events in India
First published in 1936, and now available in a centenary edition, this book was written by Nehru almost entirely in prison from June 1934 to February 1935. His account, though replete with autobiographical details, is much more than a personal document; in the words of Rabindranath Tagore, "Through all its details there runs a deep current of humanity which overpasses the...more
Paperback, 648 pages
Published
September 27th 1989
by Bodley Head
(first published 1940)
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Whenever I read Pandit Nehru I feel like my father is writing to me. The quality of prose is exquisite and seldom other writer match this skill. Nehru's first book I read is 'Discovery of India'. But after reading 'Glimpses of world history 'I became staunch admirer of Nehru. When I was reading 'Glimpses of world history' I decided to read his autobiography. This is long book of 650 pages but book flows with the masterly prose of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. You can find plenty of quotable quotes in...more
He's quite frank here. Sometimes, I couldn't help thinking "this guy is not THAT brilliant a leader". In that sense, this book gives good insights into the minds of those involved in indian freedom struggle.
ဘာသာေရး ေနာက္ခံကား အေရာင္ရင့္လွေသာ တိုင္းျပည္ႀကီးတစ္ခုမွ ဘာသာမဲ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္တစ္ဦး။
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ေနရူးျပတိုက္ရွိ စာအုပ္စင္တြင္ ယန္းေပါဆတ္၏ Being and Nothingness စာအုပ္ႀကီးအား ခန္႔ခန္႔ျငားျငား ေတြ႕ခဲ့ရ၏။
သို႔မဟုတ္ ဂ်၀ါဟလာ ေနရူး။
ေနရူးျပတိုက္ရွိ စာအုပ္စင္တြင္ ယန္းေပါဆတ္၏ Being and Nothingness စာအုပ္ႀကီးအား ခန္႔ခန္႔ျငားျငား ေတြ႕ခဲ့ရ၏။
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First prime minister of independent India (1947 – 64). Son of the independence advocate Motilal Nehru (1861 – 1931), Nehru was educated at home and in Britain and became a lawyer in 1912. More interested in politics than law, he was impressed by Mohandas K. Gandhi's approach to Indian independence. His close association with the Indian National Congress began in 1919; in 1929 he became its preside...more
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“What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.”
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