His books continue to draw a steady readership across age, community and class. Yet the average Indian nurtures an abiding interest and faith in Pt Nehru, one that has withstood the ravages of time and survived scepticism and disillusionment. In Mumbai, neither the Congress party nor Nehru Centre nor Khilafat House organised programmes to celebrate their founder-patron-mentor. India's first prime minister had passed away this day in 1964, and although several projects and welfare schemes drafted by sequential Congress-led governments are named after him, his landmark anniversary passed unnoticed amid the new political equation. MUMBAI: Hardly any public functions were held to commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on May 27.
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