Indian Hero 2 - The magazine describes Nehru as a moody, idealistic intellectual who felt an almost mystical empathy for the toiling peasant masses; an aristocrat who had passionate socialist convictions; a product of Harrow and Cambridge who spent over 10 years in British jails; an agnostic radical who became an unlikely follower of the deeply spiritual Mahatma. Together they brought a nation to freedom and laid the underpinnings for the world's largest democracy. It says Nehru spent a lifetime trying to instil the habits of democracy in his people—a disdain for dictators, a respect for parliamentary procedures and an abiding faith in the constitutional system.