Rajendra Prasad vs. Winston Churchill
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Rajendra Prasad
1884 – 1963
Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician, lawyer, journalist and scholar who served as the first president of India from 1950 to 1962 for two terms. He joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar. A supporter of Mahatma Gandhi, Prasad was imprisoned by British authorities during the Salt Satyagraha of 1930 and the Quit India movement of 1942. After the constituent assembly 1946 elections, Prasad served as 1st Minister of Food and Agriculture in the central government from 1947 to 1948. Upon independence in 1947, Prasad was elected as President of the Constituent Assembly of India, which prepared the Constitution of India and which served as its provisional Parliament.
"The national government will be formed if not today some time later. You and other members of the Working Committee and Maulana Azad as its President and Mahatm…"
Winston Churchill
1940 – 2010
Winston Churchill (1874) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."