Jawaharlal Nehru https://archive.org/details/HindSwaraj-Nehru-SW2-16I/page/n309/mode/2up March 1951. https://www.indiatoday.in/assembly-elections-2017/story/pm-narendra-modi-vs-rahul-gandhi-over-somnath-why-nehru-opposed-rajendra-prasads-temple-visit-1097262-2017-11-30 Rajnikant Puranik, https://archive.org/details/nehrus-97-major-blunders-revised-unabridged-to-127-major-blunders/page/n345/mode/2up
• “I confess that I do not like the idea of your associating yourself with a spectacular opening of the Somnath temple. This is not merely visiting a temple, which can certainly be done by you or anyone else, but rather participating in a significant function which unfortunately has a number of implications. Personally, I thought that this was no time to lay stress on large-scale building operations at Somnath. This could have been done gradually and more effectively later. However, this has been done. I feel that it would be better if you did not preside over this function,”How past reconstructions of Somnath Temple have reflected politics of the time

I confess that I do not like the idea of your associating yourself with a spectacular opening of the Somnath Temple. This is not merely visiting a temple, which can certainly be done by you or anyone else but rather participating in a significant function which unfortunately has a number of implications..”

— Jawaharlal Nehru on Somnath temple

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I confess that I do not like the idea of your associating yourself with a spectacular opening of the Somnath Temple. This is not merely visiting a temple, which can certainly be done by you or anyone else but rather participating in a significant function which unfortunately has a number of implications..”" in the context of "Jawaharlal Nehru https://archive.org/details/HindSwaraj-Nehru-SW2-16I/page/n309/mode/2up March 1951. https://www.indiatoday.in/assembly-elections-2017/story/pm-narendra-modi-vs-rahul-gandhi-over-somnath-why-nehru-opposed-rajendra-prasads-temple-visit-1097262-2017-11-30 Rajnikant Puranik, https://archive.org/details/nehrus-97-major-blunders-revised-unabridged-to-127-major-blunders/page/n345/mode/2up
• “I confess that I do not like the idea of your associating yourself with a spectacular opening of the Somnath temple. This is not merely visiting a temple, which can certainly be done by you or anyone else, but rather participating in a significant function which unfortunately has a number of implications. Personally, I thought that this was no time to lay stress on large-scale building operations at Somnath. This could have been done gradually and more effectively later. However, this has been done. I feel that it would be better if you did not preside over this function,”How past reconstructions of Somnath Temple have reflected politics of the time" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Quote Image
Source: Wikiquote: "Somnath temple" (Quotes) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Jawaharlal Nehru

About Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a central figure in India during the middle-third of the 20th-century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, Nehru served as the country's prime minister for 17 years.