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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (7152)	9/24/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

No Nehru has got a degree in 90 years'- JPR: Yeah like we need more morons....... I couldn't get the link but will post it if I find it. Inject a little humor One of our posters says that his degree is 98.6, of course in jest. Please there is no need for documentation. I believe U. With regards, to 98.6 degree poster. Both Jawaharlal Nehru and his grandson, Rajiv Gandhi are below average students in UK. Excerpts Aristocratic tradition challenged The kothwal reference is intriguing -- I had never realised this before reading Vijayan, but it is not as though the Nehrus were traditional aristocrats; Motilal Nehru's father was a kothwal, a minor functionary in a police station. Those who succeed should be proud of their humble origins, yet how many of us know that Jawaharlal's grandfather was a lowly kothwal? Why is this hidden? What else, I wonder, is similarly hidden? Mediocre students with Himalayan-size ego As befitted a man of Motilal's standing, he sent his son to one of England's leading public schools, Harrow, after which Jawaharlal gained admission to Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he did his Tripos degree in Natural Sciences (he got a below average, low second division rank). Like his grandfather, Rajiv,too, was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, after going to India's leading public school, the Doon School. Unfortunately, he turned out to be an even poorer student than his grandfather and was "sent down" - a Cambridge University euphemism for having failed- before completing his final year. The story is told of how one of his Cambridge tutors asked him what the badge he was wearing-an Indian-style oil lamp, or 'diva'-on his Doon School jacket stood for. "It's the lamp of learning," replied Rajiv, with a touch of pride. "Pity you left it behind with you," said the tutor.