Question

write a notes on Jawaharlal Nehru's sciencetific outlook​

Answer 1

Nehru’s understanding of science in relation to the country’s development was penetrating. He, unlike some of his senior contemporaries, viewed science with an unbiased and realistic attitude. His belief in the scientific method was unshakable. He thought of an advanced India with a heavy commitment to industrialisation through science and technology. But the most striking aspect of his scientific thinking was the importance he attached to the scientific outlook.

Answer 2

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It is a great honor and a privilege for me to come here and to deliver this lecture on “Nehru and Dialogue of Cultures”. Nehru’s has long been an honored name around the globe and especially among the peace-lovers and critical cosmopolitans. Maybe this is the reason why in assessing Nehru as a man of dialogue, it may truly be claimed that his experience with human culture has been an integral part of world history. As a matter of fact, for the past three generations, in India and elsewhere, Nehru has symbolized a figure of peace and intellectual tolerance, two inner qualities which he possessed and guided his life. As Martin Luther King said correctly about Nehru: “ In all struggles of mankind to rise to a true state of civilization, the towering figure of Nehru sits unseen but felt at all council levels.” There are few individuals in each century of human life who affect the lives of nations. Such a one was Jawaharlal Nehru. Much work has been done on Nehru, the politician, and exhaustive surveys of his international interventions have been taken up. Scholars have written a great number of biographies of Nehru, but very little attempt has been made to understand and evaluate him as a man of culture and as an “animateur” of intercultural dialogue. If it is unusual to consider Nehru in this way, it is perhaps because we have become too accustomed to thinking of him as a political leader simply pursuing the career of a politician. But Nehru was certainly more than a simple political careerist. Martin Luther King called him “ A Great Mediator”, because more than any other one person in his time he influenced the East and the West. The truth is that the humanist in Nehru constantly watched over his politics, especially in the task of interpreting world affairs he frequently attempted to divest himself of the kind that said: “Politics is above ethics.” Nehru’s internationalism and his moral regard for human dignity with his great concern for world peace and his conviction that co-existence and tolerance were essential conditions for the survival of human civilization were logical outcomes of his struggle for Indian freedom. In this, Nehru was delivering deeply into the roots of Indian culture the message of the eternity of Truth formulated in the Vedic saying: “ Truth is one, but wise men describe it in different ways.”