NIECES OF PANDIT NEHRU
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 only 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 helping India, explained Chandralekha, adding that more young educated Indians than ever were interesting themselves in trying to raise the living standards of their people.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 131, 4 June 1943, Page 5
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