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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070918","data":"Today is the 129th Birth anniversary of the longest-serving prime minister of the country. Nehru, under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi, emerged to be one of the most important leaders of the country.<\/p>Here are some lesser known facts about the enigmatic personality. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070919","data":"While studying at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, his fellow classmates lovingly called him Joe Nehru.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070920","data":"The Nehru Jacket was a political statement. He had started wearing this after he had vowed not to wear western clothes. Apart from the stand up collar, the Nehru Jacket is just like the waistcoat. Even after the passing of Chacha Nehru, it remained to be the favorite for many an Indian politician.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1542110070921","data":"5929697b2761a"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070922","data":"Nehru was an agnostic atheist. Here are some statements from his book \"The Discovery of India\" to support this: <\/p>\"Religion, as I saw it practised, and accepted even by thinking minds, whether it was Hinduism or Islam or Buddhism, or Christianity, did not attract me. It seemed to be closely associated with superstitious practices and dogmatic beliefs, and behind it lay a method of approach to life's problems which was certainly not that of science. There was an element of magic about it, an uncritical credulousness, a reliance on the supernatural.\""},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070923","data":"Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Indian man who got a mention in the cover of the famous magazine Playboy and that featured a full length interview of him.\nIt was the October 1963 edition of Playboy. They hailed him as \u201c A man of aristocratic birth and fastidious habits, a product of seven years of upper-crust English schooling\u2026\u201d<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1542110070924","data":"59296928573ca"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070925","data":"The Nehru Family has a history of assassinations and it all started with four failed attempts to assassinate Pandit Nehru. The first attempt was made in 1947 during India-Pakistan partition. A second attempt was made in 1955, the third in 1956 in Mumbai and the last one in 1961 but Nehru managed to escape all.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070926","data":"He refused a permanent seat In UN For India: Nehru declined the United States' offer to India to take the permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council around 1953 and suggested that it be given to China, according to ex-United Nations Under-Secretary General, Sashi Tharoor.<\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070927","data":"He penned his autobiography while in prison from June 1934 to February 1935. The title was 'Toward Freedom'. It was published in the USA in 1936. <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070928","data":"Like his political Guru Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize many times, from 1950 to 1955. He was nominated altogether 11 times by both national and international agencies. \n "},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1542110070929","data":"59296892bdfa2"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1542110070930","data":"Nehru died of a heart attack on 27th May 1964. Around 1.5 million people gathered to watch his cremation. That number is only second to Mahatma Gandhi's cremation.<\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1542110070931","data":"592968b4ba396"}]

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