Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Prime Minister of India, from An Autobiography publisher: Penguin India, ISBN: 9789385990045

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere has filled me with horror, and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it.

— Jawaharlal Nehru on Irreligion in India

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere has filled me with horror, and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it." in the context of "Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Prime Minister of India, from An Autobiography publisher: Penguin India, ISBN: 9789385990045" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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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.