A Tryst with Destiny

No Indian politician ever spoke like Nehru — and no one else’s words mark the nation’s founding moments. This edition gathers thirty-three of his essential speeches and statements in a single chronological arc: the Lahore address of 1929 that declared complete independence the goal, his statement at trial, the Objectives Resolution, the midnight ‘tryst with destiny’ of 14 August 1947, the broken broadcast of 30 January 1948 when the light went out, and the speeches with which a wounded new republic set its course in the world. The texts follow Nehru’s own published collections.