Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime minister of India and before that he was among one of the prominent national activists of India. Jawaharlal Nehru was given many titles by the people of India the most popular among them were Pundit Nehru and Chacha Nehru. Pundit Nehru was born to the family of Motilal Nehru and Swaroop Rani on 14th November 1889. Parents of Jawaharlal were from a well to do Kashmiri Brahmin Family. His father Motilal Nehru settled at Allahabad city of Uttar Pradesh and Jawaharlal was born there only. His primary education was taken care at home and some of the most prestigious schools of that time in India, at the tender age of 15; he went to Britain for further studies. He chose to become a barrister before his return to India. In the year 1916 after his return from the Britain he got married to Kamala Kaul.
Till the time of his return his father was deeply involved in the political scene of India, He also joined the politics. Jawaharlal was a devoted nationalist; he bore a secular and socialistic ideology. He was greatly influenced by the stalwart of the Indian national movement Mahatma Gandhi and his passion to achieve something for the downtrodden and the underprivileged made him popular among the masses. Due to the active participation in the politics and the mass movements, Nehru was many times confined to the prison walls, till the India ultimately got freed from the clutches of the British Raj. After the independence he became the first Prime Minister of India. He was very popular among the children and was fondly called by them as Chacha Nehru.
As a prime Minister he ruled the India for 17 years, during his tenure he tried to introduce many policies for the upliftment of the women and other downtrodden masses to provide those benefits and equal status as available to the privileged ones. Pundit Nehru tried to modernize the India to be at par with rest of the world. He introduced various plans for the modernization of the industries, agriculture and the education. His policies for improving the relation with Pakistan and the United States did not bore any fruit and the bitterness of the relation with these countries began as the result of the failure of his policies. The relation with China was taken to a new high and tried to be based on the basis of Panchsheel, but ultimately that too ultimately failed and led the India to the Sino Indian war of 1962, in which India lost very badly.
At the heart Pundit Nehru was an ardent peace lover, he was deadly against the colonialism. He always supported the Internationalism and the Non-Alignment. With the association of the Yugoslavia, Indonesia, Egypt and Ghana he started the movement called the Non-Alignment movement. He also played a very constructive role in the beginning of the Asian games.
But the loss of the diplomacy with China broke Nehru and shattered him mentally. He broke down to a heart stroke in the year 1964 and died.
