Padmaja Naidu had a close relationship with the Nehru family, including with Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. [7] Pandit later told Pupul Jayakar , Indira Gandhi 's friend and biographer, that Padmaja Naidu and Nehru lived together for many years.

Nov 14, 2024 · Jawaharlal Nehru’s relationship with Padmaja Naidu, the daughter of Sarojini Naidu, was marked by deep personal and emotional ties. Nehru and Padmaja shared a very close bond, often communicating through letters, some of which reflected a more intimate and complex dynamic between them.

Nov 16, 2023 · In a letter to Sarojini Naidu’s daughter and his alleged lover, Padmaja Naidu, Nehru said he was “relieved” over the murder of 400 Hindus. Read this letter which appears in Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Volume 1, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund.

Oct 23, 2016 · In a chapter titled “Nehru and Women”, Padmaja Naidu, the daughter of Sarojini Naidu, exclaims, “Nehru is not a one woman man!” – an apt preface to the profiles of all the women Nehru...

Jan 17, 2006 · Padmaja Naidu was a good friend who was already to help with the type of advice that only a good woman can give. Another woman who tried to get close to JN was Mridula Sarabhai. She became an absolute nuisance to the security people.

Feb 10, 2022 · Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten were in touch through letters even after India got independence in 1947. Nehru and Edwina had developed a close relationship, and it continued even after India became independent, several reports claim.

Nov 13, 2014 · Other books on the subject of women in Nehru’s life — one of them written by M.O. Mathai, at one time his most trusted and powerful aide, who had to be sacked for a lot of wrongdoing in 1958 — speak of his protracted romance with Padmaja Naidu, a daughter of the nation’s “nightingale”, Sarojini Naidu, who was a poet as well as ...

Aug 13, 2017 · Naidu is rumoured to have shared an intimate relationship with Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister Of India. In the late 1930s, according to Indira: A Biography by Pupul Jay, when the author asked Nehru’s sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit, she revealed that they had lived together for many years.

Padmaja Naidu and Jawaharlal Nehru were romantically involved and lived together for many years. Padmaja never married, hoping Nehru would one day propose to her. However, Nehru did not marry Padmaja because he feared hurting his daughter, Indira.

Padmaja Naidu was also close to the Nehru family, including the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the first female president of the United Nations General Assembly.