NEHRU'S NIECE
PRISON AND CHOCOLATE CAKE, by Nayantara Sahgal; Victor Gollancz, English price 15/-. NEHRU, pivot statesman in EastWest relations, did much of his thinking and writing in prison; and survived. His brother-in-law. Mrs. Pandit’s husband, did not survive. A _ gentle, kindly scholar, he was drawn into Gandhi’s non-resistance movement; like so many other good Indians, hé went in and out of gaol with a martyr’s enthusiasm; and he died before the British Raj made the most magnificent gesture in the whole history of imperialism. Nayantara Sahgal’s story is interesting because of her intimate’ relationships with the makers of history, and valuable for the insight it gives into a civilised mind that is not European. She is warmly affectionate rather than intellectual, and her book gives glimpses of her heroes, Nehru and Gandhi, that no formal historian could capture. Gay to the point of frivolity, but with underlying pride and seriousness, she writes a small girl’s autobiography from the feet of the great; and her justification is that they are not made of clay.
Anton
Vogt
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 14
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176NEHRU'S NIECE New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 14
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