13 January 2014, 01:49 PM IST
On January 9 1931, Pandit Nehru wrote to his only daughter, Indira "I was so glad to learn today that Dadu had come back to Allahabad and that he was better. I was also very pleased to learn that he had gone to see Mummie in Malaca jail. Perhaps, with luck, I may see all of you tomorrow. For tomorrow is my interview day, and in jail the mulaqat ka din is a great day. I have not seen Dadu for nearly two months. I shall see him, I hope, and satisfy myself that he is really better. And I shall see you after a long, long fortnight, and you will bring me news of yourself and Mummie."… "Heigh-ho! I write on of foolish things although I sat down to write to you about past history. Let us try to forget the present for a while and go back 2000 or 3000 years…" The book that contains this snippet is the "Glimpses of world history" a book he wrote during his years in jail, without any reference material whatsoever - one which covers the rise and fall of empires and civilizations from Greece and Rome to China and West Asia; great figures such as Ashoka and Chengiz Khan, Gandhi and Lenin, a classic described by the New York Times as "It is one of the most remarkable books ever written.. Nehru makes even H.G. Wells seem singularly insular. One is awed by the breadth of Nehru's culture!"
Panditji was a scholar par excellence, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge. His 'discovery of India' besides his other books such as 'letters to a daughter' have been read and admired by generations in different continents. Born to riches, he chose hardship and struggle through his involvement in the Indian National Congress. He became Prime Minister in 1947 at the age of 58- well beyond the then retirement age for government officers, which was 55 at the time. I often tell my 8 year old son who likes to be treated as an adult that he has not even spent as many years on earth as Panditji had spent in jail. Panditji spent 9 years in jail, slightly more than the Mahatma who was in jail for a little beyond 7 years.
Upon becoming Prime Minister, Panditji strode the international stage like a colossus. When Nelson Rohlilala Mandela was asked how he was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi- he replied that in actuality, "Nehru was my hero". The man who was responsible for the policies of glasnost and perestroika which opened up the Soviet Union to the world rendering nearly a dozen nations that have sprung thereof as democracies- Mikhail Gorbachev held Panditji in high regard. Gorbachev states that hearing Panditji at the Moscow University had helped formulate his thoughts on throwing open the Soviet State to democratic institutions. He wrote of Panditji "this amazing man, his noble bearing, keen eyes and warm and disarming smile, made a deep impression on me."
In 1857 when the Hindus and Muslims fought together and very nearly ousted them the British realized that it was imperative for the survival of their interests that the two communities be cleaved apart. Thus was born the divide and rule policy, which saw the British administration paying both Hindu priests and Maulvis a regular allowance primarily to preach hatred against the other community. The British sowed the seeds of religious division in India- something that grew so large that it split the country apart creating two separate nations. Thousands were killed in the partition of India- a partition that both the Mahatma and Panditji did their very best to avoid.
Panditji therefore adopted secularism, he said "In a country like India, which has many faiths and religions, no real nationalism can be built except on the basis of secularity. Any narrower approach must therefore exclude a section of the population and then nationalism itself will have a restricted meaning than it should possess. We have not only to live upto the ideals proclaimed in our Constitution, but to make them a part of our thinking and thus build up a really integrated nation. This does not mean absence of religion, but putting religion on a different plane from that of normal political or social life. Any other approach in India would mean the breaking up of India."
Gulzarilal Nanda the Home Minister assumed the office of Prime Minister on the day Panditji died. In a broadcast to the nation, Nanda emphasized that he had stepped in only to fill the breach. He added that the void created by the Prime Minister's death was great, and asked "Is there any man in the whole country who can take the place of Nehru?"
A week ago, the economic advisor to the BJP Baba Ramdev addressed Pandit Ji as 'Maha Maut Ka Saudagar" at the Talkatora stadium. While both Ramdev and Narendra Modi who shared the dias with him have similar formal education - it is rather worrisome that Arun Jaitley, a Senior Lawyer and Rajnath Singh, a science graduate, who were both present did not deem it fit to contradict Ramdev.
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