PANDIT NEHRU’S NIECES
SYDNEY, June 3. Two nieces of Pandit Nehru, chairman of the All-India Congress Party, have arrived in Australia. They are Chandralekha Pandit, 19, and Nayanatara Pandit, 16. Pandit Nehru was arrested by the British authorities during the Congress civil disobedience campaign, and is still detained. . The two girls are on their way to the United States to complete their education They are both small and pretty, and’speak flawless English. “In peacetime we would have gone to England, but now America is the onlj’ place open to us,” said one of the girls. Both will take an arts course with the intention of taking up social service work They felt that this is the best way of ho ping India, explained Chandralekha, adding that more voting educated Indians than ever were interesting themselves in trying rto raise the living standards of their people.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 213, 4 June 1943, Page 4
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