AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN GIANT

A man who could write a speak better English probably then an Englishman (is acknowledged by many in contemporary world also) started his early education at his home.His father had him educated at home by private governesses and tutors. Under the influence of a tutor, Ferdinand T. Brooks, he became interested in science and theosophy. He was subsequently initiated into the Theosophical Society at age thirteen by family friend Annie Besant. However, his interest in theosophy did not prove to be enduring and he left the society shortly after Brooks departed as his tutor. He wrote: "for nearly three years [Brooks] was with me and in many ways he influenced me greatly"

His theosophical interests had induced him to the study of the Buddhist and Hindu Scriptures.According to B.R. Nanda , these scriptures were his "first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of India....they provided him the initial impulse for his long intellectual quest which culminated...in his famous book. Later when he had begun his institutional schooling in 1905 at Harrow, a leading school in England, he was greatly influenced by G M . Trevalyan's  Garibaldi books, which he had received as prizes for academic merit. He viewed Garibaldi as a revolutionary hero.

After completing his schooling from Harrows, England,he went to e,Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1907 and graduated with an honours degree in natural science in 1910.During this period, he also studied politics, economics, history and literature desultorily. Writings of Bernard Shaw, H.G.Wells, J.M.Keynes, Bertrand Russell, Lowes Dickinson and Meredith Townsend moulded much of his political and economic thinking.  

After completing his degree in 1910, he went to London and stayed there for two years for law studies at the Inns of Court School of Law (Inner Temple). During this time, he continued to study the scholars of the Fabian Society including Beatrice Webb. He passed his bar examinations in 1912 and was admitted to the English bar.

All along his life he loved children very much.He was a prolific writer in English and wrote a number of books, such as Discovery of India ,Glimpse of World History, and his autobiography, Towards Freedom. He had written 30 letters to his daughter Indira Gandhi, when she was 10 years old and was in a boarding school in Mussoorie teaching about natural history and the story of civilisations. The collection of these letters was later published as a book Letter from a father to his daughter.

The man was born in 1889 of Motilal Nehru a nationalist leader and Swarooprani of his two other siblings elder sister Vijaylakhsmi FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY and younger sister Krishna Hutheesing was an eminent author of many books.

His name and work is gradually fading away from the citizen of country due to vehement force of artificial 'Hinduttva' imposed by a group of people and new generation will never know of a man who had a larger than life image minus his political mistakes.