Why remembering Nehru is not the answer to Modi’s BJP
2 years, 4 months ago

Why remembering Nehru is not the answer to Modi’s BJP

Firstpost  

Attempts are often made by Nehru’s admirers, generally highly educated people, to correct public perception about him. He may have built quite a few of our national institutions from scratch, but Nehru is in today’s national common sense the other of substantive democracy. Nehru is the tallest symbol of the old order, which people believe did not allow ‘real’ democracy to flourish. And as the culture of high command grew from the times of Indira Gandhi, Congress workers focused on Nehru and ignored leaders like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Lokmanya Tilak and Rajendra Prasad.

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Congress didn't accept their own Constitution, let alone the country's: PM Modi
1 week, 2 days ago

Congress didn't accept their own Constitution, let alone the country's: PM Modi

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the Congress on Saturday, accusing the grand old party of disrespecting not only the Indian Constitution but also its own internal democratic processes. Participating in the special discussion on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution, PM Modi alleged that the Congress sidelined democratic sentiment within the party to favour Jawaharlal Nehru as …

Book Review: In ‘Nehru’s India’, Aditya Mukherjee Counters False Narratives About India’s First Prime Minister
1 week, 6 days ago

Book Review: In ‘Nehru’s India’, Aditya Mukherjee Counters False Narratives About India’s First Prime Minister

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 10, 2024 22:30 IST - 9 MINS READ At a time when the forces of Hindutva are relentlessly denigrating Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution to the freedom of our country and the first 17 years of nation-building in independent India, the historian Aditya Mukherjee brings welcome clarification to the debate largely by citing Nehru’s own words and expanding on …

PM Modi quotes speeches by Nehru, Indira says congress leaders had 'no faith' in Indians
10 months, 2 weeks ago

PM Modi quotes speeches by Nehru, Indira says congress leaders had 'no faith' in Indians

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday made repeated attacks on India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his speech in the Lok Sabha, claiming that the Congress leader thought Indians were lazy and of low intelligence. Modi's nearly 100-minute speech was laced with sharp attacks on the Congress and the Gandhi family, and he said the party "never …

PM Modi made India strong, cannot be compared with Nehru: Karnataka CM
2 years, 6 months ago

PM Modi made India strong, cannot be compared with Nehru: Karnataka CM

Firstpost  

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday asserted that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and current Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot be compared, as he praised the incumbent for taking strong actions on border issues and on matters concerning the nation’s unity and integrity, compared to the former. Reacting to Siddaramaiah’s comments, Bommai on Saturday said, there cannot be …

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Nehru, Ambedkar and the BJP: Revisiting of history?
2 years, 8 months ago

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Nehru, Ambedkar and the BJP: Revisiting of history?

Deccan Chronicle  

Everyone knows that April 14 is Ambedkar Jayanti, the birth anniversary of B.R. Further, the decision to inaugurate the new “expanded” museum that will not be “exclusive” for Nehru’s memory has been fixed for April 14 after rejecting two other dates considered by the government — December 25 and January 26, the first being Atal Behari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary and …

The great Nehruvian myth-making: How Nehru wasn’t that secular, humanist and democrat as made out to be
2 years, 8 months ago

The great Nehruvian myth-making: How Nehru wasn’t that secular, humanist and democrat as made out to be

Firstpost  

Acharya Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani was close to Jawaharlal Nehru at the time of Independence. MC Chagla, noted jurist and Nehru’s Cabinet colleague, wrote in his memoirs Roses in December how Nehru showed “great strength and courage in getting the Hindu Reform Bill passed, but he accepted the policy of laissez faire where the Muslims and other minorities were concerned”. He …

Nehru talked of panchayats as if they were bureaucracies, imagining them as elected civil servants rather than political leaders
2 years, 9 months ago

Nehru talked of panchayats as if they were bureaucracies, imagining them as elected civil servants rather than political leaders

The Hindu  

Jawaharlal Nehru restlessly sought to provide Indian democracy with a firm and unshakeable base. Trained to govern Nehru claimed to “want real power to be in the hands of the people in villages and districts and states” but that “they must first understand and be trained in the principles of governance and then play an active role in governing the …

‘Had Sardar Patel not died in 1950, he would have found it difficult to work with Nehru for much longer’
3 years ago

‘Had Sardar Patel not died in 1950, he would have found it difficult to work with Nehru for much longer’

Firstpost  

‘It was Patel’s loyalty towards Gandhi that made him work with Nehru. Otherwise, his problem with Nehru was almost the same as Jinnah’s problems with Nehru,’ say Adeel Hussain and Tripurdaman Singh, authors of a new book on Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru would always remain central to any credible discussion and discourse on modern India. In an exclusive interaction with Firstpost, …

Jawaharlal Nehru's Idea of Religion, Equation With Jinnah & Vision for India
3 years, 1 month ago

Jawaharlal Nehru's Idea of Religion, Equation With Jinnah & Vision for India

The Quint  

Adeel: There was genuine respect that Nehru had as he respected everybody from that generation of Indian leaders. I think that disagreements, and there were many disagreements primarily came from the time when Nehru tried to understand the problems of Indian Muslims through his specific lens which of course had instances of specific secularism and socialism and he tried to …

Vajpayee and Advani were inherently Nehruvian, but Modi is different, says Jairam Ramesh
3 years, 2 months ago

Vajpayee and Advani were inherently Nehruvian, but Modi is different, says Jairam Ramesh

Firstpost  

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh talks about his new book on Sir Edwin Arnold and his poem ‘The Light of Asia’, and why he plans to write his next on Nehru. Unfortunately, the defenders of Nehru have frozen him in time.” In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, Ramesh talks about his new book, The Light of Asia: The Poem that …

Aakar Patel | Nehru a model of modernity… Why his vision & legacy endures
3 years, 11 months ago

Aakar Patel | Nehru a model of modernity… Why his vision & legacy endures

Deccan Chronicle  

I was being interviewed for my book and was asked a question unrelated to it — Why does Hindutva hate Jawaharlal Nehru so much? Before Independence, Nehru wrote a series of works through which he aligned himself to India as a civilisational entity of the sort that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh also approves of. Some such examples are Bharat Heavy …

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