Tag: Nehru
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Nehru-Edwina affair: How Panditji charmed Lord Mountbatten’s wife
The Nehru-Edwina love affair still intrigues people. When Pandit Nehru sent her a book of photographs of erotic sculptures from teh temple of the sun in Orissa, Lady Edwina wroteback, “I am not interested in sex as sex. There must be much more to it, beauty of spirit and form and in its conception. But I…
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Nehru-Gandhi family has too many places named after it
News East West NEW DELHI: The Nehru-Gandhi family has too many places, welfare programmes, tournaments, stadiums, hospitals, buildings, roads, airports, ports, awards and educational institutions and chairs named after it? Yes. There is denying the fact the Nehru-Gandhi family which has ruled most of the time since independence in 1947 acquired the aura of India’s…