“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru · Life quote

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. — Jawaharlal Nehru quote card
First Prime Minister of India · 1889 – 1964

Leader of India's independence movement and the country's first Prime Minister (1947-1964).

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