Tag Archives: Courage
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: The Lamp of India – A Life of Elegance, Courage, and Unyielding Principle
Picture a young girl in the grand Anand Bhawan mansion in Allahabad, listening wide-eyed as her father, the formidable Motilal Nehru, debates politics with Mahatma Gandhi over tea. Born Swarup Kumari Nehru on August 18, 1900, she was the eldest daughter in a family destined to shape modern India. Her brother Jawaharlal, eleven years her […]
Nayantara Sahgal: A Life of Grace, Courage, and Elegant Defiance
Imagine a young girl growing up in the shadow of India’s freedom struggle, where prison visits to her father felt like adventures, complete with chocolate cake smuggled in by sympathetic British jailers. That girl was Nayantara Pandit, born on May 10, 1927, in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India’s first woman […]










