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Discuce nehru love for animal in context of the essay pdf.

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The Life of the Bee enough to mention it in one of the earliest letters she wrote to her father (December 1930; date unknown) from Calcutta:

'I have enjoyed reading The Life of the Bee... I have also begun The Life of the Ant (also by Maurice Maeterlinck). But as I have read only a few pages I have not formed my opinion about it...' 

That these books stayed in Indira's mind is evident from a comment she was to make very much later to an American lady: 'Entirely different types of books, for instance, the Faber Book of Insects and Maeterlinck's books on bees, ants… also contributed to the shaping of my personality. 

'They inculcated the habit of close observations of everything around and reinforced what my mother used to tell me of the links between all creatures. 

'My father's letters had explained how rocks, stones, and trees told not only their own story but those of the people and creatures who lived amongst them. 

'Very early I became a conservationist with a strong feeling of companionship and kinship with all living things.' 

Author Jairam Ramesh brings out the lesser-known side of Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi's private library sometimes throws light on the books she grew up reading - such as, The Book of Baby Birds by E.J. Detmold - with a handwritten inscription on the opening page: Indira Nehru, Calcutta, 5/1/29. 

Correspondence between daughter and father further suggests what Indira voraciously pored over in 1932. 

There were some 60 books, both in English and French, that included several classics.

Indira Gandhi with her father Jawaharlal Nehru

These included What Dare I Think by Julian Huxley, spanning both biology and religion; The Life of a Butterfly by Friedrich Schnack, examining the life cycle of the peacock butterfly; the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome, which engaged with children camping, fishing and exploring; and Far Away and Long Ago by William Henry Hudson — an autobiography of a well-known naturalist of those times who spent the first eighteen years of his life in the Argentinian Pampas. 

A letter from Indira to her father on 13 April 1940 from Leysin in Switzerland - where she was undergoing treatment for pleurisy - gives a glimpse not only of her wide reading preferences, but also of the policies she was to later adopt as prime minister: 'I have been reading, in the Reader's Digest, a condensation from the book Flowering Earth by D.C. Peattie. 

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India as a girl next to Mahatma Gandhi the Indian leader who was on hunger strike, 1930October 1961: Indian prime minister Pandit Nehru (1889 - 1964) clasping his hands in salute while sitting with his daughter, Indira Gandhi, (born Indira Priyardarshini Nehru, 1917 - 1984) in the backseat of a ca trait. of Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984) who served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1974 and 1980 until her assassination in 1984

'I am sure it would fascinate you, as it did me. It is a story of green life - the plant kingdom - upon the earth. Is it not wonderful, the oneness of life? It is ever a source of marvel to me how intrinsically the fates of all living things are bound together and how dependent on one another they are.' 

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This must be the only book of that time that Indira read without her father suggesting it. In fact, it was one that her father himself hadn't read. 

In a letter dated 25 April 1940, written from Bombay, with an addition made the next day, Nehru admitted to his daughter that he found her account of D.C. Peattie's book 'fascinating' and that he would try and get the book — a rare biblio-victory for Indira over her father. 
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