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dated November 24, 1958: Guru Nanak birthday

Prime Minister Nehru, addressing a meeting to celebrate the birthday of Guru Nanak in New Delhi on November 23, asked the people to re-orient their ways of thinking and strive to find answers to the new questions that a fast changing world was throwing up. Mr. Nehru said that the teachings of great men were valuable and should be remembered. “While keeping in mind the ideals set before us by great men from time to time we must remember that there are new problems created by the march of time. These problems must be solved. Otherwise, no amount of preachings or repetition of noble sayings, howsoever Godly, would take the nation forward,” he said. It was a pity, said Mr. Nehru, that the birthday celebrations of great men were gradually becoming formal affairs. Perhaps nowhere else in the world, he said, was there such a wide gap between professions and practice as in India. “Let us all do something practical to fill that gap,” he added.

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