1957: Jawaharlal Nehru Interview on India and the Commonwealth

As India celebrates 75 years of independence, ITN Archive shares this interview with India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Filmed in June 1957, Nehru spoke to ITN's Reggie Bosanquet about India's position in the Commonwealth.

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[ramana]

It was a difficult environment for Nehru to face international press but still he dealt with dignity. Has anyone seen the current PM facing press?

[kishordurve]

Nehru was a well read person with dignity who could face tough interviewers without flinching. He was a true statesman and could rise above petty matters.

[karun]

All the IITs what we have today, a vision of Mr Panditji... A real visionary who constructed a Modern India.. We are as Indians very grateful to such great personalities..

[grapeshott]

ISRO, DRDO, EPFO, ED, AIIMS, Metric System, Paradip Port, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, NITs, (formerly RECs), and so on. Including the set of laws, such as labour laws, electoral laws, etc. Bhakra-Nangal dam, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, the LIC, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation, the National Library of India, National Institute of Design, Kendriya Vidyalayas, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Steel PSUs in Rourkela, Bhilai, The list goes on....

[anbanandantp]

What a dignified leader! Panditji, we the Indians n miss a visionary and intellectual leader like you.

[br]

S Jaishankar is a brilliant foreign minister who knows diplomacy as the back of his palm. But still he can learn from Nehru to be not arrogant to press people making questions, giving out answers pleasant to the ears and still sending out the message what he meant.

[mathewabraham]

Huge respect for Pandit Nehru for doing all that was required to launch India into a modern state starting with nothing soon after independence.A man endowed with great scholarly attributes, statesmanship, vision and International stature expected of a leader steered India through difficult times in its formative stages.His vilification in present times in certain quarters is nothing but a sad commentary on all pervasive rot in politics and the extent to which politicos can stoop.

[ashokgholap]

People of India need to know the contributions of our former PM's so that they can compare our present PM and his contribution, that will give us insight of critical assessment of our PM's !

[pragasamramaswamy]

WHAT A GREAT MAN! INDIA HAS FALLEN FROM WHERE TO WHERE ?

[thenewtoniankid]

Pandit Ji drove India through extremely poor financial health to prosperity and kept India united during her toughest times !

[moderndemocracychannel]

Nehru was visionary leader who gave constitution, states based on language, end of zamindars, land reforms, autonomous judicial system, strong bureaucracy, IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, DRDO, ISRO, Dams, iron steel plants, HEC, Hmt led the country as liberal democracy as western countries adopted . Today India is due to Nehru but now police reforms, administrative reforms, autonomous free press, autonomous election commission etc is need to make India a nation state.

[shyamchabra]

People forget time and space. I was born in India, just after Independence, and there was nothing left in the country. Thank God for the Nehru's, who had decided to donate both their palatial homes in Allahabad to the nation. It was an era of survival. I remember my mother saving our 1 kg ration of sugar, for visitors, so they could have a cup of tea! Jawaharlal was the right choice as India's first PM. God help us if we had what we have now!

[theleakingpot]

Architect of modern India. A visionary leader.

[emmkay]

Problems during those days were far more than today. They had to envision every bit of the future of such a huge country with such a big diversity. And made the right choices, which today's politicians try to get the entire credit for.

[ambarishh]

Nehru was a visionary and great leader, really father of modern India.

[cicucuc]

Salute to our First Prime minister. Proud to be 🇮🇳Indian.

[yfhello]

Such an intellectual person natural was he unlike today's actor pm who just do acting and jumlas but Nehru build India from scratch.

[parthvaid]

Don't know why he gets criticized 😕, he seems to be a good leader.

[kapilmaliwad]

Meanwhile leaders now a days - "दोस्ती बनी रहे"

[Sarma.k_]

That's how a Head of the country or a PM sounds like. So calm, so composed. No unnecessary drama. So well educated. Because of this man today we're living in democratic country nd we've IIT, NIT aims, DRDO, isro, bhaba institute, etc.