Nehru, the archictech of modern India

No doubt as first Prime Minister of India he discharged his duties as per his best abilities but his choice of celebrators was not perfect. His choice of Russia and attention towards China disappointed the super powers of the world that cost dearly to rapid progress of India as they overlooked India. 

Had he given equal importance to America and other European countries and stayed away from old and costly technology of Russia the India today would be a different place.

He did not plan his strategies for neighboring countries properly. 

 

There can always be more than one way of doing things. Nehru followed the policy of non alignment and worked for Afro Asian unity. It is natural that the new republic would be slighly biased against imperialist powers. Nehru is also credited with laying foundation of modern India through five year plans. In fact, whatever we are today we owe to Nehru. 

Nehru laid the democratic foundation and nursed it. It has kept India united. It is sad that today some sections should cast doubts about his actions just to dilute his image for political reasons. But his image will withstand all these.

It is his 125th birth anniversary

Nehru is the political architect of India and has left his indelible mark on Indian history for his contribution towards building a modern India.

Nehru is architect of modern India, but that was almost 60 years back and the way India need to be developed is no where to be seen, I hope that will be changing soon with real architect of now PM.

None can be compared to Nehru.  Let us all remember that the Public Sector that made a huge contribution to the nation, in terms of goods or services at reasonable prices, is a boon to the people, even today.  For example, imagine if NLC is a private organization.  The power tariff will go through the roof.

Any organization, even in the Public Sector, has to be viewed in the overall perspective, for it to be meaningful.  Only Nehru had the Vision to see the future.  He was an outstanding leader of his time.

@ ABSIVAKUMAR  Public sector has proved to be the worst as far productivity and investment ratio is concerned. You should know the return ratio is too poor than what government spends on this sector. The financial results are too poor than what we spend on these white elephants. 

Apart from few units most of public sectors are performing badly and about Nehru's vision, he is the first PM and he started from where Britishers left us. Most of modern day suprises started by british in India. 

I don't say Nehru did nothing but he did not know people living in rural areas. he talked with them as if he was talking to city dwellers but villagers thought he was a very educated and almost as cultured as British therefore felt happy listening to him. Everything British was considered class those days. (Even today)

It is not fair to say that Nehru did not understand rural people. Someone else says he did not understand neighboring countries. Yet someone says he did not understand economics and investment.For someone who wrote "Discovery of India" these type of comments indicate a calculated indifference and inability to understand Nehru the person. He belonged to a cultured family and was an educated person who loved his country and its people so much that he fought for its freedom w/o knowing that he will become its PM one day unlike today's leaders who fight only for chair. If some of us for ideological reasons find it difficult to accept him let us at least not try to find whimsical reasons for the immense love then Indians showered on him.

Nehru being the first PM would naturally be he pioneer where public sector and many other nation building steps were concerned. However, Nehru in fact was a dreamer and a romantic person not suited to be a leader of strength - his closeness of Madame Mountbatten was instrumental in the partition of the country which is a well known fact and later too because of his indecisiveness he created the Kashmir issue which has exploded now.He also brought in the psuedo secularism which has only gone on create unrest and communalism in our country. One can go on listing his shortcomings but with all that he did try to the best he could uder the circumstances which amounted to very little anyway...Public sectors have been white elephants bleeding the nation and we have been constantly in debt with the world bank which has been writing off our debts year after year..

Nehru being the first PM would naturally be he pioneer where public sector and many other nation building steps were concerned. However, Nehru in fact was a dreamer and a romantic person not suited to be a leader of strength - his closeness of Madame Mountbatten was instrumental in the partition of the country which is a well known fact and later too because of his indecisiveness he created the Kashmir issue which has exploded now.He also brought in the psuedo secularism which has only gone on create unrest and communalism in our country. One can go on listing his shortcomings but with all that he did try to the best he could uder the circumstances which amounted to very little anyway...Public sectors have been white elephants bleeding the nation and we have been constantly in debt with the world bank which has been writing off our debts year after year..

Nehru being the first PM would naturally be he pioneer where public sector and many other nation building steps were concerned. However, Nehru in fact was a dreamer and a romantic person not suited to be a leader of strength - his closeness of Madame Mountbatten was instrumental in the partition of the country which is a well known fact and later too because of his indecisiveness he created the Kashmir issue which has exploded now.He also brought in the psuedo secularism which has only gone on create unrest and communalism in our country. One can go on listing his shortcomings but with all that he did try to the best he could uder the circumstances which amounted to very little anyway...Public sectors have been white elephants bleeding the nation and we have been constantly in debt with the world bank which has been writing off our debts year after year..

Couldn't have put myself any better than this! Nehru's followers will certainly not like this one bit, but they need to analyse the truth to understand this reality!

It is height of ridiculousness to say that country's partition took place because of Nehru's relation with Madam Mountbatten. It took place because Muslims rightly or wrongly believed that in a democratic India with one person one vote they would never come to power as a religious group because of Hindu majority and therefore under leadership of Jinnah succeeded in forming a Muslim majority Pakistan. The process of Pakistan's formation took many years and was finalised between Congress, Muslim league and British in 1946. What has Madam M got to with all this is not understandable.

The Kashmir issue arose because the Maharaja of Kashmir did not exercise his right of either joining India or Pakistan but chose to remain independent on 15 August 1947 thus giving birth to a new nation. When Pakis attacked him, under fear of losing his kingdom to them he turned to India for saving him. India refused to help unless he acceded which he did but under special terms which are now known as Article 370. In fact it is on record that Sardar wanted to allow J&K to go to Pakistan as the majority population was Muslim, similar to what he did to bring into India Hyderabad and Junagadh.

Secularism means not taking decisions based on one's religion and keeping it and politics separate. Was it wrong on Nehru's part to introduce it.If later on and present day politicians are anti secular because of narrow political gains why must Nehru be blamed. It is like blaming a grandfather because the grandson is not following the right lessons he should have inherited.

Please go to the share market and see the capitalisation of public sector companies. When in 1947 the private sector lacked capital and foreigners did not give loans to them was the decision to accelerate industrial growth via public sector taken. At no point was private sector stopped from growing/expanding.

Will someone tell us in the past five years what are the amount of Indian debts written off by the world bank, year after year? 

Being dreamer and romantic is far more respectable than being ignorant and victim of vicious propaganda. It is clear, for many, history of India has began only in mid 2014 !!!

It is not fair to say that Nehru did not understand rural people. Someone else says he did not understand neighboring countries. Yet someone says he did not understand economics and investment.For someone who wrote "Discovery of India" these type of comments indicate a calculated indifference and inability to understand Nehru the person. He belonged to a cultured family and was an educated person who loved his country and its people so much that he fought for its freedom w/o knowing that he will become its PM one day unlike today's leaders who fight only for chair. If some of us for ideological reasons find it difficult to accept him let us at least not try to find whimsical reasons for the immense love then Indians showered on him.

 

 

Who wanted secularism once this country was divided based on religion? If certain politicians said so they said it in their own interest for vote politics. We are paying in the name of secularism while they have declared themselves as Muslim countries where Hindus have no place.   

It is a well known fact that India is among the top 25 loan defaulters in the world owing over 170 billion dollars to world bank(s)..

http://finmin.nic.in/reports/ind_ext_debt.asp

As far as economic growth is concerned it started with Janatha Government which opened up private sectors and later it was under P V Narsimha Rao that the economic growth got a real push with Manmohan Singh as the FM...But the same Manmohan Singh had to become mum, and take a back seat when he became a puppet PM under Sonia....This has been trhe one tradition faithfully followed by Nehru and his family - make Congressmen and the nation dance to their tunes , no matter how wrong or inefficient they were and are !!!

Kashmir issue, had it been handled right by Nehru, probably would never have become this bad. It is his poor judgment and lack of vision that has led to many such steps because of which the entire nation has had to suffer until now...

Nehru, as much as he was scholar and an idealist, he too was as flawed as any other individual. While we do respect his certain qualities and principles, it is no use denying that he was a perfect human being and a flawless administrator, which he was not. Here is a link which is an eye opener of sorts.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/myindia-myvote/chunk-ht-ui-myindiamyvote-homepage-topstories/sardar-patel-jawaharlal-nehru-viewed-secularism-differently/sp-article10-1152546.aspx

It is not right to say that India is a defaulter in World Bank loans. It shows lack of understanding of WB financing. It is currently financing infrastructure projects in India. The chief function of WB is to provide financial liquidity to developing and emerging economies and the loans are on very long time periods. Incidentally India is a founder member of WB and IMF and has a assured share in loan disbursements. Wrong statements that India is a top defaulter in the world is simply laughable and what Nehru has got to with it is not understandable.

Kashmir problem is the sole creation of the then Maharaja of Kashmir who wanted to become an independent nation and in the process lost his kingdom to both India and Pakistan. SARDAR WANTED TO GIVE AWAY J&K TO PAKISTAN but Nehru was against it. Now it goes against him.

Nehru did not start a dynasty. He was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri. After his unfortunate death it was the old leaders who propelled Indira to become PM. It is they who should be blamed and not Nehru. 

There is no denying the fact that Nehru was not a perfect man and did commit errors of judgement. Are only his errors to be constantly remembered - unless one belongs to a particular ideology.

It seems that because a neighbor has declared itself a Muslim nation therefore India should also do so and declare itself a HIndu nation.By doing so we will create a Hindu Pakistan -- is that agreeable?

Secularism is a noble concept which requires a mature society to nourish it. 

Indians live in a false world of secularism without knowing real meaning of it. for them secularism means vote bank politics and nothing more. Secularism in fact means no interference of religion  not even mention of religion in politics. In India when one talks about secularism it means votes of a particular community. 

India which has an external debt of over 300 billion dollars is certainly no laughing matter, of course Congress party and its supporters may try and dilute the situation since it shows them in a bad light, bur truth has to be faced that we are steeped in debt because of wrong policies adopted by the previous governments since the time we got independence.Congress also institutionalised corruption which ate away into the nations reserves plunging the country deeper into debt if we decide the gloss over the facts , then we have only ourselves to blame...