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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi, each of whom served as Prime Minister of India. Pandit was sent to London, as India's most important diplomat, after serving as Nehru’s envoy to the Soviet Union, the USA and the United Nations. Her time in London offers insights into the wider context of changes in Indo–British relations. Her High-Commissionership was a microcosm of inter-governmental relations.

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Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks. . . all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

Compensations, Good, Jail, Life, Married, Prison

When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became an organization in which nations would at least keep talking instead of shooting. Soon it was discovered. . . that words were as deadly as any weapon, and when these words had a number of interpretations they could and did lead to conflict.

Became, Born, Instrument, Numbers, Organization, Talking

sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

Action, Cloak, Cloaks, Motives, Sacrifice

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Acquisition, Education, Initiation, Life, Living, Truth

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

Acceptance, Generosity, India, Land

The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.

Building, Government, Ideas, Order, United, World

The more we sweat, the less we bleed.

Bleed, Sweat

One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.

Disappointment, Experience, Freedom, Struggle, Time, Views

Freedom is not for the timid.

Freedom, Timid

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

Age, Delay, Price, Years

Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

Adversity, Joy, Loses, Meant, Special