The writings of India’s first prime minister are not just history, they are a record of our evolving conscience, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday, adding that for anyone seeking to understand the nation’s democratic journey, Jawaharlal Nehru’s words remain a powerful compass.

Gandhi was speaking on the completion of digitisation of ‘Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru’ — an entire set of 100 volumes, containing 35,000 documents, available free of cost for downloading — in the first phase of the Nehru Archive launched Thursday to mark Nehru’s 136th birth anniversary this year (nehruarchive.in).

“For anyone seeking to understand our nation’s democratic journey— its courage, its doubts, its dreams — his words remain a powerful compass,” the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha sa

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