I have read with interest “Witness to history” by R. C. Rajamani (Spectrum, March 19). The writer has mentioned that not many know that Nehru was a chain smoker. This is not true. Nehru used to smoke two or three cigarettes a day and that too using a filter. I happened to see him smoking a cigarette in this manner while he was sitting in the Assembly Hall of the Constitution Club, Curzon Road, now Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, in July 1947. He was attending a meeting of the AICC.
His photographs smoking a cigarette with a filter are available in pictorial biographies. However, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a chain smoker.
RAGHU BANS SINGH BHATTAL, Ludhiana
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