Summary of Shashi Tharoor's Nehru

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century. #2 The young Jawaharlal Nehru was shaped by two sets of parental i