Jawaharlal Nehru

Residence 1

📍Anand Bhavan, Moti Lal Nehru Marg, Tagore Town, Prayagraj 211002, Uttar Pradesh, India

“I was born Jawaharlal Nehru on the 14th of November 1889 in Allahabad, into one of the most distinguished families of the Indian nationalist movement. My father Motilal was a celebrated lawyer and a leader of the Indian National Congress, and Anand Bhavan — our family home in Allahabad — was one of the great political salons of colonial India. I was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, became Gandhi's closest political partner, was imprisoned nine times by the British for a total of over nine years, and became independent India's first Prime Minister in August 1947. I served until my death in 1964. Anand Bhavan was where I grew up, where my father shaped my politics, and where the vision of a secular, democratic, non-aligned India first formed in rooms filled with the best minds of the independence movement.”

Sources: Tharoor, S. Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), Arcade Publishing; Nehru, J. The Discovery of India (1946), Meridian Books

Residence 2

📍Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi 110011, India

“When I became Prime Minister in 1947, the former British Commander-in-Chief's residence was assigned to me. I renamed it Teen Murti — for the Indian cavalry memorial at its gates — and tried to make it something different from a colonial residence. I planted the gardens with species from every state in India. For seventeen years I governed India's birth as a modern nation from this desk, believing always that science, secularism, and democracy were the foundations on which we must build.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Jawaharlal Nehru