What's in Nehru's Edwina letters and why a storm after 80 years?
India TodayThe Prime Ministers' Museum and Library has for the first time formally asked for the return of personal letters written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Edwina Mountbatten, Jayaprakash Narayan, Albert Einstein, among others. Kadri said these letters pertain to Nehru's communication with Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Jayaprakash Narayan, Padmaja Naidu, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Aruna Asaf Ali, Babu Jagjivan Ram, and Govind Ballabh Pant. "What was so secretive in the letters India's First PM Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to Edwina Mountbatten that Mrs Sonia Gandhi took them in her personal possession? Patra also shared texts from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's autobiography, India Wins Freedom, where the Congress leader referred to the "greater influence" of Lady Mountbatten on Nehru.
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