Answer the following questions briefly:

How does Nehru reflect on Benjamin Disraeli's thoughts?

Nehru quotes Benjamin Disraeli, “Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; a man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life.”

Nehru seems to be reflecting upon Benjamin Disraeli’s words in an affirmative fashion, admitting that a man who spends his time in imprisonments writing beautifully and expressing his opinion as a man of letters, that is one with a good hold over the language, can relish even the hardest of times in the prison, which would otherwise seem full of despair, cumbersome and dull for anyone else. He goes on to give his own example too, and how he has himself pass his time wonderfully by dedicating himself to literature, whether reading or writing.

Besides, he also adds renowned examples such as Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress as other notable literary works created in jails.