🦜🌿 Solitude, Squirrels… and Struggle : 🎧 Chapters 45 & 46 of Nehru’s Autobiography

 

🦜🌿 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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🎧 Chapters 43 & 44 from Nehru’s Autobiography 🧱 Jail walls, iron bars — and an unbroken spirit.

 🧱 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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Audiobook | Chapter 6 (II) "New Problems" | Parts 9-16 | The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru

🎧 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 (Chapters 41& 42) Nehru's Autobiography

 🚫📜 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.

#Nehru #CivilDisobedience #FreedomStruggle #BritishRaj #Autobiography #Podcast

Audiobook | Chapter 6 (I) "New Problems" | Parts 1-8 | The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru

 🎧 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.

#TheDiscoveryOfIndia #Nehru #IndianHistory #Kabir #GuruNanak #Vijayanagar #JointFamily #CasteSystem #Podcast #GiribalaJoshi #AudioBook

Audiobook | Chapters 39 & 40 | Jawaharlal Nehru's "Autobiography" | Narrated by Giribala Joshi

 🌾🔥 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.

#Nehru #PeasantStruggle #CivilDisobedience #IndianFreedom #Autobiography #Podcast

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.

#Nehru #Gandhi #RoundTableConference #FreedomStruggle #Autobiography #Podcast

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.

#TheDiscoveryOfIndia #Nehru #IndianArt #AncientMath #IndianCulture #SoutheastAsia #IndianHistory #Podcast #GiribalaJoshi #AudioBook