New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru’s vast body of letters, speeches, and notes, long scattered across ageing volumes and restricted archives, is now available to anyone with an internet connection. With the newly opened Nehru Archive, a free digital repository built from 100 volumes preserved by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, he’s now accessible like never before.

When it comes to Nehru, praise and pillory take place in tandem—keeping him alive in more ways than one.

There are various threads and diverging narratives that coalesced to create Nehru, a larger-than-life statesman, a wily politician, and an enviable orator. And over 60 years after his death, the fascination continues to linger. He remains one of India’s most polarising figures. The archive, which has a sleek user interface—a

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