Nehru had always been far more conscious of his image abroad than in the
country, which he could take for granted. The people of India loved and adored
him so much that he could get away with anything. He knew the political
advantages of having a favourable image abroad; it had given him a head start
over all other leaders in the freedom movement. Nehru had spent long years
wandering in England and the Continent, conversing with the great minds of the
West, Bernard Shaw, Romain Rolland, Andre Malraux, Marcuse, Albert Einstein and
so many others. No other leader had so many friends and admirers abroad. Even
after he became the Prime Minister, Nehru carried the permissive Western
traditions of his father’s aristocratic establishment to Teen Murti House, the
massive, red sandstone building where the British Commander-in-Chiefs had
lived.
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