Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western intellectual in Nehru grows impatient and often irritable over dependence. The East in him responds intuitively. Emotionally, he plays to the hilt the role of father to his people...
...spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
...stop to bribery: "Cast aside these vile practices. The giver is just as guilty as the receiver." Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window. Next morning, after a sleepless night, Nehru contritely promised to explore their grievances. In 1947, after appealing to Delhi's citizens to open their doors to homeless Hindus from Pakistan, he put up more than a dozen families in his official residence. They stayed nine months...
...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
People's Example. No Nehru characteristic is more striking than his determination to set a personal example for his people, to teach them face to face, to guide every detail of their new national life...