🦜🌿 Solitude, squirrels… and struggle.
🎧 Chapters 45 & 46 of Nehru’s Autobiography are now available in the audio podcast series!

📘 45: Animals in Prison
Amid prison walls, Nehru found companionship in the natural world —
🕊️ birds, 🐿️ squirrels, 🐕‍ stray dogs.
Their presence brought comfort, empathy, and rare peace.
His connection with animals became a gentle protest against harsh isolation.

📘 46: Struggle
Nehru shifts back to the movement —
💪 He celebrates people’s resilience,
🌍 draws inspiration from global revolutions,
📣 and envisions socialist transformation for India.
Despite ideological tensions, he stays committed to Congress and Gandhi — trusting in change through unity and vision.

🎧 Tune in for a journey from quiet reflection to fiery conviction.

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Audiobook | Chapter 7 (I) "THE LAST PHASE (1)" | Parts 1-6 | The Discovery... by Jawaharlal Nehru

 🎧 New Episode | The Discovery of India | Chapter 7 (Part 1) 📖

Title: The Last Phase 1

In this compelling section, Nehru begins to trace the decline of India under British colonial rule and the first stirrings of modern nationalism. The economic, political, and intellectual foundations of a new India, and its coming struggle, begin to take shape.

Highlights of this episode:

• 🏛️ British consolidation of power and rise of the nationalist movement

• 👑 The ideology of empire and creation of a new elite caste

• 💰 How the plunder of Bengal financed England’s Industrial Revolution

• 🏭 The destruction of Indian industries and decline of agriculture

• 🔗 India becomes an economic and political appendage of Britain

• 🏰 The growth of the princely states under British protection

• 📰 The contradictions of British rule: emergence of voices like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the Indian press, Sir William Jones, and English education in Bengal

🎙️ This episode unpacks how colonial exploitation reshaped India’s economy, society, and self-perception.

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 🧱 Jail walls, iron bars — and an unbroken spirit.

🎧 Chapters 43 & 44 from Nehru’s Autobiography 

📘 43: In Bareilly and Dehra Dun Gaols
Unwell and imprisoned, Nehru reflects on:

• The decline of civil disobedience,

• Harsh prison conditions,

• And the courage of peasants, women, and political prisoners.
  He critiques social injustice and a disconnected elite, even as the movement falters under British repression.

📘 44: Prison Humours
Jail life tested the mind and body, but Nehru found moments of:
📚 Learning
✍️ Writing
🤝 Human connection
Even in solitude and censorship, the resilience of the human spirit shines through.

🎧 Listen to Nehru’s reflections on pain, hope, and dignity behind bars.

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🎧 New Episode | 📖 The Discovery of India - Chapter 6  (II)"New Problems" 

In this concluding part of the chapter “New Problems,” Nehru examines India’s struggle to adapt to changing political powers, cultural currents, and the emerging dominance of Europe.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

• 👑 The Indianization of the Mughals => from Babar to Akbar

• ⚙️ The technological gap between Europe and Asia

• 🌱 The development of a common Indo-Islamic culture

• ⏳ Aurangzeb’s reactionary policies, rise of Hindu nationalism, and Shivaji

• ⚔️ The Maratha-British power struggle and eventual British triumph

• 📉 India’s growing backwardness and British technical superiority

• 🛡️ Glimpses of Ranjit Singh and Jai Singh as regional powers

• 💰 A look at India’s economic background and the “two Englands”

🎙️ Listen to this compelling narration of power, resistance, and cultural shifts in the last centuries before colonial rule took full form.

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 🚫📜 Repression, propaganda, and rising resistance.

🎧 Dive into Chapters 41 & 42 of Nehru’s Autobiography in this powerful audio podcast episode!

📘 41: Arrests, Ordinances, Proscriptions
In 1932, the British Empire struck hard:
❌ Congress was outlawed
🚔 Civil liberties were crushed
📥 Mass arrests followed — Nehru among them.
But amid fear, nationalist unity grew stronger. Nehru saw this as an inevitable showdown between imperialism and freedom.

📘 42: Ballyhoo
As the civil disobedience movement roared on, British propaganda tried to distort truth.
📰 Censorship, false narratives, and brutal violence — even Nehru’s mother was attacked.
Yet across India, peasants, workers, and leaders stood tall, refusing to bow.
💪 Resistance had a moral force the Empire couldn’t crush.

🎧 Listen to Nehru’s powerful indictment of repression and his hope in the people’s courage.

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