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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jawaharlal Nehru
Age: 74 †
Born: 1889
Born: November 14
Died: 1964
Died: May 27
Autobiographer
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Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Statesperson
Trade Unionist
Writer
Prayag
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Nehru
Chacha Nehru
Pandit Nehru
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At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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