‘Selected Works Of Jawaharlal Nehru’ Goes Online; 35,000 Documents, 3,000 Illustrations Available

NEW DELHI, Nov 20: The ‘Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru’ is now fully available online with an entire set of 100 volumes, containing some 35,000 documents and about 3,000 illustrations related to the country’s first prime minister, digitised and available free of cost for downloading. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, a trustee of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) that carried out the exercise, said its second phase would entail efforts to locate letters to Nehru. Ramesh said the Gandhi-Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel-Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose-Nehru correspondence is fairly comprehensive, but that is not the case with certain other correspondences such as Winston Churchill-Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore-Nehru. He said incorporating that would be of the biggest va