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Shri
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
Memorial
new
Delhi,
1,
Motilal
Nehru
Palace,
Near
10
Janpath,
Man
Singh
Road
Area,
New
Delhi
Shri
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
was
born
on
October
2,
1904
at
Mughalsarai,
a
small
railway
town
seven
miles
from
Varanasi
in
Uttar
Pradesh.
His
father
was
a
school
teacher
who
died
when
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
was
only
a
year
and
half
old.
His
mother,
still
in
her
twenties,
took
her
three
children
to
her
father’s
house
and
settled
down
there.
Lal
Bahadur’s
small
town
schooling
was
not
remarkable
in
any
way
but
he
had
a
happy
enough
childhood
despite
the
poverty
that
dogged
him.
He
was
sent
to
live
with
an
uncle
in
Varanasi
so
that
he
could
go
to
high
school.
Nanhe,
or
‘little
one’
as
he
was
called
at
home,
walked
many
miles
to
school
without
shoes,
even
when
the
streets
burned
in
the
summer’s
heat.
As
he
grew
up,
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
became
more
and
more
interested
in
the
country’s
struggle
for
freedom
from
foreign
yoke.
He
was
greatly
impressed
by
Mahatma
Gandhi’s
denunciation
of
Indian
Princes
for
their
support
of
British
rule
in
India.
Lal
Bahadur
Sashtri
was
only
eleven
at
the
time,
but
the
process
that
was
end
day
to
catapult
him
to
the
national
stage
had
already
begun
in
his
mind.
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
was
sixteen
when
Gandhiji
called
upon
his
countrymen
to
join
the
Non-Cooperation
Movement.
He
decided
at
once
to
give
up
his
studies
in
response
to
the
Mahatma’s
call.
The
decision
shattered
his
mother’s
hopes.
The
family
could
not
dissuade
him
from
what
they
thought
was
a
disastrous
course
of
action.
But
Lal
Bahadur
had
made
up
his
mind.
All
those
who
were
close
to
him
knew
that
he
would
never
change
his
mind
once
it
was
made
up,
for
behind
his
soft
exterior
was
the
firmness
of
a
rock.
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
joined
the
Kashi
Vidya
Peeth
in
Varanasi,
one
of
the
many
national
institutions
set
up
in
defiance
of
the
British
rule.
There,
he
came
under
the
influence
of
the
greatest
intellectuals,
and
nationalists
of
the
country.
‘Shastri’
was
the
bachelor’s
degree
awarded
to
him
by
the
Vidya
Peeth
but
has
stuck
in
the
minds
of
the
people
as
part
of
his
name.
In
1927,
he
got
married.
His
wife,
Lalita
Devi,
came
from
Mirzapur,
near
his
home
town.
The
wedding
was
traditional
in
all
senses
but
one.
A
spinning
wheel
and
a
few
yards
of
handspun
cloth
was
all
the
dowry.
The
bridegroom
would
accept
nothing
more.
In
1930,
Mahatma
Gandhi
marched
to
the
sea
beach
at
Dandi
and
broke
the
imperial
salt
law.
The
symbolic
gesture
set
the
whole
country
ablaze.
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
threw
himself
into
the
struggle
for
freedom
with
feverish
energy.
He
led
many
defiant
campaigns
and
spent
a
total
of
seven
years
in
British
jails.
It
was
in
the
fire
of
this
struggle
that
his
steel
was
tempered
and
he
grew
into
maturity.
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