Nag Jayaraman

“Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to
ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

“Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experiences,”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India

“A country under foreign domination seeks escape from the present in dreams of a vanished age, and finds consolation in visions of past greatness. That is a foolish and dangerous pastime in which many of us indulge. An equally questionable practice for us in India is to imagine that we are still spiritually great though we have come down in the world in other respects. Spiritual or any other greatness cannot be founded on lack of freedom and opportunity, or on starvation and misery.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

“Schopenhauer says, ‘a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India