🚫📜 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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 🎧 The Discovery of India – Chapter 6 "New Problems" (Part 1) 📖

In this powerful section, Nehru explores how India encountered new cultural, political, and social challenges with the coming of the Arabs, Afghans, and Mongols, while laying the foundation for a mixed cultural ethos.

What’s inside this episode:

• 🏹 Invasions by the Arabs and Mongols — and their long-term effects

• 🕌 The flowering of Arab culture and India’s dynamic contact with it

• ⚔️ The rise of Mahmud of Ghazni, Afghan rulers, and their Indian impact

• 🌄 Glimpses of South India, Vijayanagar Empire, and the arrival of Babar

• 🎭 The fusion of cultures — featuring Kabir, Guru Nanak, Amir Khusrau

• 👥 Understanding the Indian social structure and group dynamics

• 🏡 The legacy of village self-government and Shukra Nitisara

• 🧬 A critical view of caste theory, joint families, and their contradictions

🎙️ Listen to how India adapted, absorbed, and evolved in the face of new problems and fresh influences.

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 🌾🔥 Land, livelihood, and looming rebellion.

🎧 Chapters 39 & 40 of Nehru’s Autobiography!

📘 39: Agrarian Troubles in the United Provinces

Rising rents, crashing crop prices, crushing debt.
Peasants in the U.P. were pushed to the brink. Nehru details tenant evictions, official repression, and the growing unrest.
Congress tried to help, but landlords and colonial power stood firm.
💡 Nehru warns of a class struggle if injustice continues unchecked.

📘 40: The End of the Truce
As the uneasy calm dissolved, Nehru travelled through a restless India.
He saw growing disillusionment, revolutionary violence, and brutal crackdowns.
Even as he was arrested again, Nehru stood firm in his belief:
🕊️ Only nonviolence and unity can lead us to true freedom.

🎧 Listen to these powerful reflections on land, people, power—and conscience.

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Audiobook | Chapters 37 & 38 | Jawaharlal Nehru's "Autobiography" | Narrated by Giribala Joshi

 ⚠️ Uneasy truces and unkept promises.

🎧 Chapters 37 & 38 from Nehru’s Autobiography!

📘 37: Friction During Truce Period
As Gandhi prepared to sail for the Second Round Table Conference, India simmered with unrest — from agrarian revolts to communal strife.
Nehru exposes how British policy and communal politics deepened national wounds. Gandhi’s journey was one of hope under pressure.

📘 38: The Round Table Conference
In London, Gandhi faced a stage dominated by colonial loyalists and divisive agendas.
Nehru saw the conference as a failure — no real progress, only moral clarity.
India’s path to freedom, he believed, would be forged not in imperial halls, but in resistance at home.

🎧 Listen to Nehru’s reflections on power, politics, and patriotism.

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Audiobook | Ch 5 "Through the Ages" Parts 16-21 | The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru

 🎧 New Episode | The Discovery of India 📖

Chapter 5 (III): Through the Ages

In this final part of the chapter “Through the Ages,” Nehru traces the wide-reaching influence of Indian civilization — from art and trade to mathematics and cultural expansion.

Highlights of this episode:

• 🌏 The persistence of Indian culture and colonies in South-East Asia

• 🗿 The influence of Indian art on neighboring countries

• 🧱 A deep look into Old Indian art and its distinctive expression

• 🛶 India's vibrant and far-reaching foreign trade

• ➗ Breakthroughs in mathematics in ancient India

• 🍂 A reflection on growth and eventual decay in civilizations

🎙️ Tune in to this powerful episode on India’s global presence and internal dynamism through the ages.

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