Krishna Hutheesing

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Krishna Hutheesing
Nehru family and Hutheesing family

Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (2 November 1907 – 9 November 1967) was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of

Nehru-Gandhi family
.

Biography

Swarup Rani, Motilal Nehru and Kamala Nehru
(circa 1927).

Hutheesing was born Krishna Nehru, in Mirganj,

Hutheesing, who belonged to an Ahmedabad Jain family that built the Hutheesing Jain Temple.[3] During the later 1950s, he became critic of Nehru and in 1959, supported former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari, to form a conservative market liberal political party known as the Swatantra Party.[4]

Krishna Hutheesing meeting David Ben-Gurion (the first Prime Minister of Israel) in Israel, 1958

Hutheesing and her husband fought for India's independence and spent a great deal of time in jail.[5] Raja's terms in jail came while they were raising their two young sons, Harsha Hutheesing and Ajit Hutheesing.[citation needed]

In 1950, the Hutheesings toured the United States on a lecture tour.

Yigal Alon, who a year earlier founded 'The Israel-India Friendship League' as a tool to circumvent the then Indian government policy to avoid direct diplomatic relations between the two states
.

Hutheesing documented her life as well as the lives of her brother, Jawaharlal and her niece, Indira Gandhi, in a series of books that intertwine history with personal anecdotes including We Nehrus, With No Regrets- An Autobiography, and Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira Gandhi.

Hutheesing's husband, Raja, also wrote books: The Great Peace: An Asian's Candid Report on Red China (1953), Window on China (1953), and Tibet fights for freedom : the story of the March 1959 uprising (1960).

Hutheesing was associated with the 'Voice of America' and gave several talks. She died in London in 1967.[7]

Bibliography

  • Shadows On the Wall, J. Day Co., 1948.
  • The Story of Gandhiji, Kutub Pub., 1949.
  • We Nehrus, by Krishna (Nehru) Hutheesing with Alden Hatch. Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1967.[8]
  • Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira Gandhi, Published by Macmillan, 1969.
  • With No Regrets - An Autobiography, by Krishna Nehru Hutheesing, Published by READ BOOKS, 2007.
    ISBN 1-4067-7661-0. (Online text, 1945 edition
    )

References

  1. New York Times
    , 14 January 1947.
  2. ^ "Foreign News: Clear-Eyed Sister". TIME Magazine. 3 January 1955. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  3. ^ Raja Hutheesingh might have..The Tiger Rider Time, 19 May 1958.
  4. ^ A Rise of Voices Time, 6 July 1959.
  5. ^ "When Stone Walls Cry". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  6. ^ "People: The Laurels". TIME Magazine. 10 April 1950. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, an Author and a Sister of Nehru, Dies". The New York Times. 10 November 1967. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  8. ^ "WE NEHRUS". Kirkus Reviews. 1 September 1967. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

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