Self composed poem on Nehru
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Nehru himself was much influenced by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. “More than any other Indian”, he wrote in his book, The Discovery of India, “he (Tagore) has helped to bring into harmony the ideals of the East and West, and broadened the bases of Indian nationalism. He has been India’s internationalist par excellence, believing and working for international co-operation, taking India’s message to other countries and bringing their messages to his own people”.
He has repeatedly mentioned Tagore in his celebrated book Glimpses of World History, an anthology of letters written to his daughter Indira Gandhi from jail, as well.
The connoisseurs of Urdu poetry would vouch for the bond that Raghupati Sahay better known as Firaq Gorakhpuri and Josh Malihabadi shared with Nehru.
Josh—who bitterly regretted for a life time after migrating to Pakistan against his friend Nehru’s advice—had once remarked that “Nehru was a good human being and a bad politician.”
The folklores around the songs of Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar refuse to fade away. Many fondly recall how a poignant song like Aye Mere Watan Kay Logo and later Chahunga Main Tujhe which featured in Dosti, 1964, bedimmed Nehru’s eyes in public functions.
Firaq—who taught English literature in Allahabad University—would often say in jest that “only two and a half men know English in India; first was Firaq himself, second, the then President Dr S Radhakrishnan, and Nehru being the remaining half.” He was nominated to Rajya Sabha by Nehru for his tireless work towards promoting secularism, communal harmony and national integration.
Nehru’s friendship with noted Hindi poet Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan is also well known. Nehru, as they say, would introduce senior Bachchan as “this is a poet” and his wife Tejias “this is his poetry” to friends.
It may have become fashionable these days to denigrate Nehru for all the ills plaguing the country, the poets of his times wrote several poems which celebrated Nehru’s ideas, bemoaned his passing away and reinforced commitment towards his vision of India as an inclusive and liberal country. In their poems, they fully acknowledged how he struggled to build a modern India after it gained independence at a very difficult juncture in international politics.
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