"Another forwarded e-mail. And this one really grinds my gears! The e-mail is titled "Look at this idiot", which is directed to India's first prime minister Nehru. And it has the above picture as an attachment. There are also some disparaging remarks about Nehru in the e-mail.
First of all, I don't see anything wrong with this picture. And I fail to see how this makes him an "idiot".
But this is nothing new. It has almost become a fashion to criticize Nehru (and Gandhi) nowadays. Many proclamations are based on mere speculations and allegations (often driven by political motives). But what really boils my blood is when the allegations move from policies to personalities. You may disagree with Nehru's ideas and policies, but questioning his integrity as the prime minister of India and doubting his compassion to create a great democratic and secular India is, I think, quite preposterous."
http://vishal-blankslate.blogspot.com/2008/03/love-to-hate-nehru.html
"“India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over again, she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.”
These were the words of the first Prime Minister of independent India. He was a charismatic man, and like every human who has ever made a blip in history in larger-than-life contexts, he was loved and admired just as well as he was mired in controversy. The diverse facets of Jawaharlal Nehru have been amply explored, by people in conspicuity or obscurity, through the years. And now, 67 years on, here we are, observing yet another Children’s Day associated with the memory of this man. What were, say, three mistakes, some historical twists that Nehru is said to have facilitated? Have Nehru’s so-called mistakes been identified as reasons for several prominent issues in India today? And how did he positively shape India’s future?"
Sanskriti pandey
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2014/11/jawahar-lal-nehru-criticism/
"a man who helped create an India that talks about him to this day. A man who stands relevant, and not just from a historical perspective. Jawaharlal Nehru was, let’s say, pretty damn perfect for his time. Highly qualified, well-read, nationalistic, poetic, and idealistic – he was a man of great calibre that did shine through his niche in the Indian history of independence. His knack for elevating the Indian cause to international levels has been lauded all over. His possessive secularism was unwavering and commendable. While the economic policy may have gone downhill then, he did set up a lot of public sector undertakings that function till today. SAIL and BHEL would be examples. He even helped in the setting up of our IITs and IIMs. The Planning Commission and the Election Commission that we take for granted in a democracy today were hugely handled by Nehru. Many praise his handling of Goa and Pondicherry accession issues. Furthermore, walking India through refugee problems, internal states problems, famines and a struggling foreground was no mean feat. Let’s face it, most nations screwed up the concept of democracy after independence. India, under Nehru, didn’t. We fiercely guarded our parliamentary democratic backdrop, and fought with and against ourselves, to keep an insane number of regionally, culturally, linguistically and fundamentally diverse people woven together as a nation at a time when we were bruised and volatile. It is no wonder, then, that with great successes, great mistakes happened."
Everyone wants a "tough leader""One with BALLS" like Sardar Patel.
Look at Mugabe and Zimbabwe. I rest my case.
the time to Assess if Modi is really a hero is 7 decades in the future
#1. Demonetization
#2. GST
#3.Make in India
remember Gurumurthy, BE INDIAN BUY INDIAN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaminathan_Gurumurthy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadeshi_Jagaran_Manch
"Illusions are admirable pieces of subtle artistry, but through the Union Budget 2011-12, Mr. Mukherjee has proved how tightly he grips the core of illusions. Cynics might call it a useless Budget but I think he has done well to fill a wine bottle with water and sell it to the common man, of course with cash subsidies! No idea where the cash will end up but at least the aam aadmi will get to keep the bottle as a souvenir."
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2011/03/indian-union-budget/
maybe we can substitute "Mr. Mukherjee" with "Mr.Modi"
"The Great Indian Budget Story is narrated year after year. Governments change, Finance Ministers change, but the Budget remains the same. Year after year, companies’ profits follow an upward trajectory and yet taxes are cut, duties are under-levied. In 2009-10, companies registered an increase of 23.35 per cent in profits, may be more in the following year and yet the stimulus package continues. Apples for the corporates, peanuts for the common man."
"April 29, 1958, Jawaharlal Nehru announced his wish to resign. He did so in a public statement to the Congress parliamentary party, in which he pleaded fatigue and staleness. 'The work of a prime minister," he said, "allows no respite, it is continuous and unceasing. There is little time for quiet thinking. I feel now that I must free myself from this daily burden and think of myself as an individual citizen of India and not as prime minister." He was not quite halfway between sixty- eight and sixty-nine; he had been head of the government for almost a dozen of those years, but he was as fit and vigorous as many half his age, practicing yoga daily and working late into the night. Had his offer been accepted, it would have set a democratic precedent around the developing world, none of whose first independence leaders had ever resigned voluntarily, nor would until the 1970s. The Congress parliamentary party, though, refused to entertain the thought; taken aback by the statement, they held an emergency meeting to urge Nehru to stay on. Both Eisenhower and Khrushchev wrote expressing their hope that Jawaharlal would not leave. In the end, he settled for a long holiday in his beloved mountains instead, where he climbed with all the ardor of his youth until stopped by his doctors at 13,600 foot"
Nehru: The Invention of India
By Shashi Tharoor
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