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Packed with substance, these letters, besides throwing light on the different facets of the national movement, bring to us Nehru, the astute politician, insightful scholar, international statesman and, above all, a brilliant and prolific writer. The letters also bring forth Nehru’s popularity and friendship with world figures like George Bernard Shaw, Edward Thompson and Bertrand Russell. This revised volume
carries an informative and befitting introduction by Sunil Khilnani, a
political observer and an eminent writer who is currently working on
Nehru’s biography. |
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is a collection worth reading and preserving. A Bunch of Old Letters,
which was first published in 1958, embraces three dynamic decades
from the birth of Indira in 1917 till India’s Independence in 1947.
Selected and edited by Jawaharlal Nehru, this revised volume gives a
flavour of the action-packed days of the freedom movement. It has
letters to Nehru from big names in the struggle such as Gandhi, Motilal
Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bhose, Jinnah, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini
Naidu, Maulana Azad and Jayaprakash Narayan.