The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Light Has Gone Out, radio broadcast, 30 January 1948; Two complete consecutive sentences, 24 words. Full transcript read in the Nehru Archive, Selected Works, Second Series, vol. 5, pp. 35–36, citing All India Radio tapes. Speech mourns Mahatma Gandhi while affirming the endurance of his example
- The Light Has Gone Out, radio broadcast, 30 January 1948
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