Jawahar Lal Nehru.

A kingdom was lost.


Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Last 14th November was Pandit Nehru’s Birthday.
He was sent to England at 16. He stayed there for 8 years.
He studied Latin, playing Cricket at Harrow. He studied science and
read Canterbury Tales of Chaucer at Cambridge. He was great social success in English society.
He moved easily through their drawing rooms absorbing English values and culture. So complete was his transformation that he was an English-man when he returned to India at the age of 24.

He applied for membership at local English Club, at Allahabad. He may have been a product of Harrow and Cambridge, but to the Club, he was an
Indian and was denied admission. And that was the end of the British.

This bitterness of rejection motivated him to join Congress.
He accepted Gandhiji as Guru.
Gandhiji would not accept him so easily.
He asked Nehru to tour India and report what he saw, and his views, on all he saw.
Nehru set out on a tour of the country which inspired him to write Discovery of India.

Winston Churchill.

WINSTON CHURCHILL. (1874 to 1965.)

He saw military action in India. He was a good polo-player.
He was transferred and served in India in 1896 to 98 end,
to fight the Afghan war. He was a second Lieutenant.
He was responsible for Afghan war where his squad was made to retreat.
He was thereafter posted in the South Regiment at Bangalore.

It is over 60 years that British army rolled out of
Bangalore cantonment but the city and especially the
Russell market still remembers Churchill.

It is popularly said that a thousand VIPs have come
and gone but the one Bangalore remembers best is
Churchill who lived in winding lanes of Langford gardens.
A home owner has a yellowed receipt which shows
one Kasam tailor to W.Kurtill esq. for Rs. 4 towards
the cost of tailoring a pair of breeches. (name is not properly
spelled due to native illiteracy.)

Churchill did live in Bangalore is beyond doubt.
The proof lies in the moth eaten records of United services club.
There is a remark :
“Lieutenant W.L.S. Churchill is not to be permitted to sign chits
anymore, having defaulted in making his payments to the club.”
A princely sum of Rs.13 due from him has remained unpaid till this date.