"In the history of India, there have been occasions when a cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, has soon covered the whole sky."
India's first and longest serving Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was a man of vision who shaped the modern Indian nation.
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of the six children of Jhaverbhai Patel and Ladba, was born in Nadiad, Gujarat.
It takes courage to break free from the shackles of social inequality. It takes enormous amounts of courage to believe in a just and equal society.
Many of us assembled here today knew Netaji well, and on this occasion we are overwhelmed by the memory of one of India's greatest sons.
It has fallen to my lot often to refer in this House to the death of a colleague or a great man. Maulana Azad was a towering figure of our freedom struggle.
Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was a national leader, a freedom fighter, a crusader of social justice, and a champion of depressed classes.
Kumaraswami Kamaraj played a leading role in shaping India's destiny after the passing away of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964.
A tribute to the late Prime Minister, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, at an All-Party Memorial Meeting, New Delhi, January 11, 1967.
Smt. Indira Gandhi saw herself as a latter day Joan of Arc — such was her ardour and faith in herself as a patriot and servant of the nation.
At 41, Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India and perhaps one of the youngest elected heads of government in the world.
Dr. Manmohan Singh, India's 14th Prime Minister, presided over a decade of phenomenal growth and development that transformed the Indian economy.