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Jawaharlal Nehru
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  • Such widely different persons as Gandhi, Nehru, Nkrumah, and Nasser all acknowledge this fact.†   (source)
  • It was like the message of the photographs of Gandhi and Nehru in the room outside.†   (source)
  • For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery River, of coastlines and stone temples, of bullock carts and colourful trucks, of friends and known shopkeepers, of Nehru Street and Goubert Salai, of this and that, India so familiar to her and loved by her.†   (source)
  • Then in the morning we bad new cloths from Ammu as a back-present Rahel was a maharani and I was Little Nehru.†   (source)
  • He was an undergraduate at Delhi University during the euphoria of 1957, when the Communists won the State Assembly elections and Nehru invited them to form a government.†   (source)
  • Listening to her lilting voice, I was transported back to Missing Mean Time, as if I were sitting by the phone under Nehru's photograph and looking across the room at the portrait of Ghosh which consecrated the spot where he spent so many hours listening to the Grundig.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a Nehru jacket tonight, a dark tunic with a high collar, it needed cleaning and pressing, and he had a white raincoat draped over his shoulders—either he'd forgotten to take it off or he was planning to get out of here in a hurry.†   (source)
  • He stuck the rubber in his pocket, absently—he was wearing the same Nehru jacket he'd sported in San Francisco, his Hindu statesman number, and the thing was rutted and crushed by now, resembling some wadded discard plucked from the gutter.†   (source)
  • But at that moment, I was seeing my brother anew: the large rounded forehead, the curls that piled up on his head, threatening to fall forward and obscure his sight, the equanimity around the brow and eyes, and his mannerism of putting his finger alongside his cheek just like the Nehru portrait on our wall at home.†   (source)
  • We solace ourselves with that idea of the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves.†   (source)
  • I studied the large framed photographs of Gandhi and Nehru and wondered how, out of squalor like this, those men had managed to get themselves considered as men.†   (source)
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