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TRANSLATION OF A HINDI SPEECH BY SMT INDIRA GANDHI AT A MEETING TO WELCOME THE RELICS OF NETAJI SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE, DELHI, DECEMBER 17, 1967. Many of us assembled here today knew Netaji well, and on this occasion we are overwhelmed by the memory of one who gave us the slogan Dilli Chalo. He is

VALLABHBHAI JHAVERBHAI PATEL, ONE OF THE SIX CHILDREN OF JHAVERBHAI PATEL AND LADBA, WAS BORN IN NADIAD, GUJARAT. THERE IS NO RECORD OF HIS DATE OF BIRTH. THE GENERALLY ACCEPTED DATE, OCTOBER 31, 1875, OF WHICH THE SOURCE IS HIS MATRICULATION CERTIFICATE, WAS CHOSEN BY VALLABHBHAI HIMSELF WHILE FILLING IN A FORM. Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel,

INDIA’S FIRST AND LONGEST SERVING PRIME MINISTER, PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, WAS A MAN OF VISION. HAVING PARTICIPATED IN THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM FROM THE BRITISH, NEHRU, FONDLY CALLED PANDIT NEHRU, A REFERENCE TO HIS KASHMIRI PANDIT COMMUNITY ROOTS, WAS A FIRM BELIEVER IN NATION BUILDING, AS HE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE YOUNG INDIAN NATION HAD

SMT. INDIRA GANDHI’S BROADCAST OVER ALL INDIA RADIO ON MAHATMA GANDHI [NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 1, 1968] “In the history of India, there have been occasions when a cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand, has soon covered the whole sky,” so wrote Mahatma Gandhi in 1921. He himself poured life- giving water on a land thirsting