Article-370 on J&K is thanks to Nehru, who brought it about at the instance of Sheikh Abdullah, despite opposition by many, including Dr BR Ambedkar and Sardar Patel. Gopalaswami Aiyangar, appointed by Nehru, moved Article 306A— which later became Article 370 in the Indian Constitution—in the Constituent Assembly on 17 October...
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'... The past, he reflected, had not merely...
Statistics below are till the Nehru Dynasty times of up to UPA-I&II. Things began to improve since 2014, albeit gradually. Thanks to the Nehruvian economic policies, millions of Indians were condemned to grinding poverty. We have the largest number of poor—a third of the world's poor! As per the World Bank’s estimate,...
The Kabo or Kabaw Valley is a 11,000+ sq km highland valley on the Indian-Burmese border that is sandwiched between Manipur and north Myanmar (Burma), and is peopled by ethnic minorities like Kadu, Kanan, Meitei, Mizo, Zo, etc. It is very fertile, and is well-known for its wood products, like...
With the ascendency of English Language Aristocracy and the Brown Sahibs, work in the Indian languages and Sanskrit suffered a setback. See the condition of Sanskrit—unarguably the greatest and the most scientific language. It is becoming extinct. And unless you have mastery in Sanskrit and other older languages you can’t...
Among the freedom fighters, Dr Rajendra Prasad had about the best academic record (barring Dr Ambedkar). He did his MA in Economics from the University of Calcutta. Impressed by his answers, an examiner had once commented on his answer sheet “examinee is better than examiner”. He served as a professor...
Apart from dragging its feet in instituting an enquiry into Netaji’s death, manipulating the enquiry report (Blunder#112), being hostile to INA (Blunder#114), and not recognising Netaji for Bharat Ratna (Blunder#111), Nehru’s Government had been so hostile that in 1947 it refused to put up Netaji’s portrait in the Parliament House....
It was thanks to Nehru’s wrong decision that ‘Pakistan Occupied Kashmir’ (PoK) came into existence, when the Indian army was on the verge of getting the whole of J&K vacated. Let’s look at the two concrete cases from among the many feats of daring and bravery by the Indian army. Pakistani...
While many studies have documented the predominance of the political left in the academic world, the exceptional areas where they do not have such predominance are precisely those areas where you cannot escape from facts and results—the sciences, engineering, mathematics and athletics. By contrast, no area of academia is more...
In Blunder#5 detailed earlier we saw how Nehru’s wrong decision ultimately resulted in adverse demographic changes in Assam, with the influx of Muslims from East Bengal. Taking note of that, any nationalist, concerned about the fate of the indigenous people, their property, their well- being and their culture in Assam,...
