Large swathes of tribal and other areas remained ignored, neglected and ungoverned during the Nehruvian era and later, leading ultimately to the problems in the Northeast and the huge Naxal-infested red corridor cutting across sections of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Bihar. Further, it was not just tribal areas that...
India's lack of pacts with powerful countries to back it up in case of external attacks (Nehruvian policy (fad) of “Non-Alignment” resulted in it being non-aligned with its own national security interests—Blunder#57), its poor showing in 1962-War, the fact of its continued dependence on outdated armaments of World War-II vintage,...
Children’s Day An interesting thing is the Children’s Day—14th November, Nehru’s birthday. November-20 was declared by the United Nations as the Universal Children’s Day. However, it was shifted in India to November-14 to coincide with Nehru's birthday. In the “good” old days it used to be celebrated with much fanfare. It used...
Can a country attain greatness even if its leaders are Lilliputs; and vice versa, can the country's leaders be considered great even if the country goes to dogs—or remains wretchedly poor and achieves only a fraction of what it could have? You can’t do justice to evaluating a person by just...
Nehru regarded himself as a great academic and intellectual; a highly knowledgeable individual; an internationalist and an expert in international affairs; a liberal modernist rational of ‘scientific’ temperament and thinking; and someone who knew what was best for the Indian economy, and indeed for all aspects of the Indian polity...
A lot is commented on Nehru’s so-called ‘Idea of India’ when actually it was nothing but an immature fascination with the Soviet Marxist- Communist system (which laid the foundations of India’s poverty and misery) as something scientific, rational, modern and historically pre- destined; coupled with his fake “secularism”, which had...
India, which was far better placed with respect to many countries in Southeast Asia when Nehru took over the charge of India, was left far, far behind all of them by the end of the Nehru's tenure. Nehru miserably failed to do justice to India’s potential. Let’s take a concrete comparative...
Such was the economy practised in sharing information with the public, the media, and even the parliament, and such was the economy with truth in Nehru’s democratic India that the blame for debacle in the India-China War came not on Nehru, the principal person responsible, but on Menon. Such was...
Nehru gave little importance to the relations with Southeast Asian countries, and was patronizing towards them, even though India had much to learn from them looking to their far better economic growth rate. Here is an example of Nehru’s snobbishness. Even as India was going around the world with a...
Despite the fact of unsettled borders, skirmishes as far back as 1959, and the real possibility of war, there was grossly inadequate defence preparation and no contingency plan in place. Even assuming there had actually been no war, common sense dictated that allowing for its possibility, alternate plans, accounting for...
