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{{Short description|Indian writer (1907–1967)}}
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| name = Krishna Hutheesing
| image = Krishna Hutheesing 1958.jpg
| caption = Hutheesing {{c.}} 1958
| birth_name = Krishna Nehru
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1907|11|2}}
| birth_place = [[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British India]]<br/>{{small|(present-day [[Prayagraj]], [[India]])}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1967|11|9|1907|11|2}}
| death_place = [[London]], [[England]]
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| occupation = [[Writer]]
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| spouse = Gunottam (Raja) Hutheesing
| parents = [[Motilal Nehru]] (father)<br>[[Swarup Rani Nehru]] (mother)
| relatives = See [[Nehru family]] and [[Hutheesing family]]
| children = Harsha Hutheesing<br>[[Ajit Hutheesing]]
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}}

'''Krishna Nehru Hutheesing''' (2 November 1907 – 9 November 1967) was an Indian writer, the youngest sister of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1947/01/14/archives/sister-of-nehru-arrives-for-us-lecture-tour.html Sister of Nehru Arrives For U.S. Lecture Tour] ''[[New York Times]]'', 14 January 1947.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Foreign News: Clear-Eyed Sister |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,892893-1,00.html |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=TIME Magazine |date=January 3, 1955}}</ref> and [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit]], and part of the [[Nehru-Gandhi family]].

==Biography==
[[File:Nehru-Gandhi family group photo.jpg|thumb|upright|The family of [[Motilal Nehru]], who is seated in the center.
Standing (L to R) [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit]], Krishna Hutheesing, [[Indira Gandhi]] and [[Ranjit Sitaram Pandit]]; Seated: [[Swarup Rani]], [[Motilal Nehru]] and [[Kamala Nehru]] (circa 1927).]]
Hutheesing was born Krishna Nehru, in Mirganj, [[Allahabad]] to [[Motilal Nehru]], an Indian independence activist and leader of the [[Indian National Congress]], and [[Swarup Rani]]. She was married to Gunottam (Raja) [[Hutheesing]], who belonged to an [[Ahmedabad]] Jain family that built the [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110131183331/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864347,00.html Raja Hutheesingh might have..''The Tiger Rider''] ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 19 May 1958.</ref> During the later 1950s, he became critic of Nehru and in 1959, supported former Governor General [[C. Rajagopalachari]], to form a conservative market liberal political party known as the [[Swatantra Party]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090522105313/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825732-2,00.html A Rise of Voices] ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 6 July 1959.</ref>
[[File:David Ben-Gurion - Krishna Hutheesing 1958.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Krishna Hutheesing meeting [[David Ben-Gurion]] (the first Prime Minister of Israel) in Israel, 1958]]
Hutheesing and her husband fought for India's independence and spent a great deal of time in jail.<ref>{{cite news |title=When Stone Walls Cry |url=https://india.oup.com/product/when-stone-walls-cry-9780199466894 |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=Oxford University Press}}</ref> Raja's terms in jail came while they were raising their two young sons, Harsha Hutheesing and [[Ajit Hutheesing]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

In 1950, the Hutheesings toured the United States on a lecture tour.<ref>{{cite news |title=People: The Laurels |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856585,00.html |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=TIME Magazine |date=April 10, 1950 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131123259/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856585,00.html |archive-date=January 31, 2011}}</ref> In late May 1958 Krishna spent three days in [[Israel]]. Her host was [[Yigal Alon]], who a year earlier founded 'The Israel-India Friendship League' as a tool to circumvent the then Indian government policy to avoid direct [[India–Israel relations|diplomatic relations between the two states]].

Hutheesing documented her life as well as the lives of her brother, Jawaharlal and her niece, [[Indira Gandhi]], in a series of books that intertwine history with personal anecdotes including ''We Nehrus,'' ''With No Regrets- An Autobiography,'' and ''Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira Gandhi''.

Hutheesing's husband, Raja, also wrote books: ''The Great Peace: An Asian's Candid Report on Red China'' (1953), ''Window on China'' (1953), and ''Tibet fights for freedom : the story of the March 1959 uprising'' (1960).

Hutheesing was associated with the '[[Voice of America]]' and gave several talks. She died in [[London]] in 1967.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Krishna Hutheesing, an Author and a Sister of Nehru, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/10/archives/mrs-krishna-hutheesing-an-author-and-a-sister-of-nehru-dies.html |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=November 10, 1967}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''Shadows On the Wall'', J. Day Co., 1948.
* ''The Story of Gandhiji'', Kutub Pub., 1949.
* ''We Nehrus'', by Krishna (Nehru) Hutheesing with [[Alden R. Hatch|Alden Hatch]]. Holt, Rinehart and Winston; 1967.<ref>{{cite news |title=WE NEHRUS |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/krishna-hutheesing/we-nehrus/ |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=September 1, 1967}}</ref>
* ''Dear to Behold: An Intimate Portrait of Indira Gandhi'', Published by Macmillan, 1969.
* ''With No Regrets - An Autobiography'', by Krishna Nehru Hutheesing, Published by READ BOOKS, 2007. {{ISBN|1-4067-7661-0}}. ([https://archive.org/stream/withnoregretsana007944mbp#page/n7/mode/2up Online text, 1945 edition])

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/search/Krishna%20Nehru%20Hutheesing Krishna Nehru Hutheesing materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)]

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