National Youth Front - NYF

26/08/2026

" India is a very old country with a great past. But she is a new country also, with new urges and desires. Since August 1947, she has been in a position to pursue a foreign policy of her own. She was limited by the realities of the situation which we could not ignore or overcome. But even so, she could not forget the lesson of her great leader. She has tried to adapt, however imperfectly, theory to reality in so far as she could. In the family of nations she was a newcomer and could not influence them greatly to begin with. But she had a certain advantage. She had great potential resources that could, no doubt, increase her power and influence. A greater advantage lay in the fact that she was not fettered by the past, by old enmities or old ties, by historic claims or traditional rivalries. Even against her former rulers there was no bitterness left. Thus, India came into the family of nations with no prejudices or enmities, ready to welcome and be welcomed. "~Jawaharlal Nehru.

26/08/2026

" A Frenchman once wrote that the best way to judge of the position of a nation was to find out the status of its women. I think, this is correct. In spite of many brilliant examples in the past, I think, it would be true to say that the position and status of women in India for many hundreds of years has not been a good one, in law or in public or social life. "-- Jawaharlal Nehru.

26/08/2026