"After the ceremony, Nehru and other Congress leaders addressed a mass meeting on the river bank. As the meeting ended, Ran Ahmed Kidwai whispered to me: "Jawaharlal has performed the last rites not only of Gandhi but of Gandhiism as well. Now that the master has gone, there will be no one to discipline the crowd. The High Command is dead.""
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Durga Das
Durga Das (23 November 1900 – 17 May 1974) was an Indian journalist. He was the founding president of the Press Club of India. A longtime parliamentary correspondent and editor with the Associated Press of India, he worked in several newspaper publications, including The Statesman, The Times of India and lastly the Hindustan Times, serving as its editor-in-chief from 1957 till 1959 before he went on to establish his own news agency, India News and Feature Alliance (INFA) in late 1959.
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