![]() Being uninterested in reading fiction, I read Nehru’s three major books, namely ‘ My Autobiography’, ‘ Glimpses of World History’ and ‘The Discovery of India’ (burrowed from the Colombo Public Library) in 1971 for the first time, while waiting for my much-delayed university entrance results. As such, the wisdom of Nehru, the writer, deserves a revisit. Having blundered in giving into Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s moves for a separate Pakistan state, against the wishes of his mentor Mahatma Gandhi, prime minister Nehru held against the separatist sentiments of the above-mentioned three regions.ĭespite all his faults and missteps as a politician, I love the historian Nehru. ![]() I also don’t like the politician Nehru, who was allergic to the separatist sentiments of people who lived in Kashmir, Nagaland and also Tamil Nadu (then Madras State). After his death, politician Nehru’s visions for a socialist India or a non-aligned India also had received ample criticism from many Indian and non-Indian academics and journalists. ![]() As such, the commemoration of his 50 th death anniversary that fell on May 27th was muted. ![]() Last month, the political stock of the descendants of Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) received severe thrashing at the recently held General Elections in India. Lessons from Nehru’s ‘The Discovery of India’(1946) Book ![]()
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