"The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth."

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Source: Quoted in John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times (1981)

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first Prime Minister and a key figure in the country's struggle for independence, advocating for democracy and social justice.

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