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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote an interesting letter to his daughter Indira in the first half of 1941 when he was lodged in Dehradun Jail. “All we can do is to face our job and do it as well as we can and to remain tranquil in spite of shock and disaster.” Indira was staying in a cottage near Mussoorie then. It was the time when India was in great turmoil with the Second World War going on in full swing. Nehru was arrested on 30 October 1940 while on his way back to Allahabad and brought to Gorakhpur for trial. From Gorakhpur jail he was brought to Dehradun Jail at night by stealth in a railway compartment with shutters down. From the station he was moved to the jail in a car with curtains drawn.
He had to face the normal harshness of jail life that time. Washer-man or barber was not allowed to his cell. Further, a warder was fined for allowing a prisoner to take leave of Nehru after he was discharged. The prisoner was not allowed to take ten rupees which Nehru had given him for his fare back home. Not allowed to get anything from home, Nehru was sometimes short even of toothpaste.
He, however, asked for no favours. Rather, he wrote to the jail officials after he had learnt about the ill-treatment of the political prisoners in the camp jail in lucknow that even the few privileges he was receiving turned hateful to him. It was around this time a reflective Nehru, rendered immobile within the prison cells when India was struggling hard to break free from bondage, unveiled the deeper workings of his mind to his worried daughter.
S Gopal, Nehru’s biographer, wrote that he started enjoying life perfectly after he had resolved not to count the costs. “What he understood by this was something very close to the teaching of Gita; one should face the risks and perils of the adventure of life without calculating either what is involved or what might be its results....It is not surprising that though he had long ago moved away from the simple religious faith and had now no anchorage of scriptural or secular dogma he carried about with him a tiny edition of the Gita.”
Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India: “Because modern India is full of frustration and has suffered from too much quietism, this call to action makes a special appeal...Such action is desirable according to Gita, but behind it must lie the spiritual ideal. And action must be in a spirit of detachment, not much concerned with its results. The laws of cause and effect hold good under all circumstances; right action must therefore necessarily bring right results, though these might not be immediately apparent.”
He had to face the normal harshness of jail life that time. Washer-man or barber was not allowed to his cell. Further, a warder was fined for allowing a prisoner to take leave of Nehru after he was discharged. The prisoner was not allowed to take ten rupees which Nehru had given him for his fare back home. Not allowed to get anything from home, Nehru was sometimes short even of toothpaste.
He, however, asked for no favours. Rather, he wrote to the jail officials after he had learnt about the ill-treatment of the political prisoners in the camp jail in lucknow that even the few privileges he was receiving turned hateful to him. It was around this time a reflective Nehru, rendered immobile within the prison cells when India was struggling hard to break free from bondage, unveiled the deeper workings of his mind to his worried daughter.
S Gopal, Nehru’s biographer, wrote that he started enjoying life perfectly after he had resolved not to count the costs. “What he understood by this was something very close to the teaching of Gita; one should face the risks and perils of the adventure of life without calculating either what is involved or what might be its results....It is not surprising that though he had long ago moved away from the simple religious faith and had now no anchorage of scriptural or secular dogma he carried about with him a tiny edition of the Gita.”
Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India: “Because modern India is full of frustration and has suffered from too much quietism, this call to action makes a special appeal...Such action is desirable according to Gita, but behind it must lie the spiritual ideal. And action must be in a spirit of detachment, not much concerned with its results. The laws of cause and effect hold good under all circumstances; right action must therefore necessarily bring right results, though these might not be immediately apparent.”
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