Topic: Nehru
Narendra Modi govt turned to Nehruvian strategy for India’s economic growth
In her book ‘The Lost Decade 2008-2018’, Puja Mehra explains how the ‘India Growth Story’ has devolved into ‘Growth without a Story’.
Fake news: Sonia Gandhi in bikini, Rohingyas eating Hindus & Nehru calling Bose a criminal
The authors, who are the people behind Alt News website, bust fake news that did the rounds in India.
Four headlines & a funeral: How Indian media got the Vajpayee coverage completely wrong
Some talking heads were even trying to say that the emotional outpouring for Vajpayee was much more than it was for Indira.
Instead of comparing the working styles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, television channels were plumbing new depths of absurdity last week by comparing the funeral processions of Indian leaders. The melodrama over Vajpayee’s death featured anchors asking panelists if the turnout was more at Jawaharlal Nehru’s funeral procession or Mahatma Gandhi’s.
They had to prove that Vajpayee was more popular than Nehru or Indira and could be in the league of the Mahatma. Some talking heads were even trying to say that the emotional outpouring for Vajpayee was much more than it was for Indira.
One of the panelists pontificated that Indira was assassinated and was the Prime Minister at that time. Vajpayee did not hold any post since 2004 and yet enjoyed such love and affection.
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Modi draws the worst, dumps the best of Nehru & Indira Gandhi — and this might win him 2019
Modi is deeply statist, just like Indira and Nehru. He believes nothing is wrong with the government, if you know how to run it: Like him.
Sardar Patel was happy to let Kashmir go, and what Deve Gowda’s bed yoga means for 2019
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.
Last Laughs: CBSE results for Delhi and the ‘re-discovery of Nehru’ by India
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.
Syama Prasad Mookerjee had pointed out to Nehru his two grand follies
In this book excerpt, governor of Tripura Tathagata Roy writes about the difference between Jawaharlal Nehru and Syama Prasad Mookerjee, founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh—predecessor to the BJP.
PNB’s long journey from being the first swadeshi bank to the Nirav Modi fraud
The image of Punjab National Bank, whose clientele once included Nehru, Shastri and Indira Gandhi, has taken a major hit with the Nirav Modi fraud.
Unlike Nehru, Narendra Modi has no army of intellectual elite and the RSS is to blame
The ‘elite’ doesn’t mean elitism, it just means intellectuals and artists who can promote the spread of knowledge. And Modi doesn't have them.
Modi detests Nehru, but loves Indira’s lousy economics. Fact: she was rectifying her blunders
Indira’s change of heart got trapped between two tragic air crashes, one killing her most Left minister, and other, her economically Right son.
Why Dimple Yadav touching Mayawati’s feet still riles upper caste Indians
Dimple Yadav’s gesture challenges the class system of Hindu society which categorises women and backwards of all castes as low and inferior.
Budgam friendly fire: Should charge of culpable homicide be on the table in the fog of war?
A senior IAF officer and 3 other personnel could be booked for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” in the February Mi-17 helicopter downing.
Defence
IAF men face action in Kashmir Mi-17 chopper crash as probe ‘almost confirms’ friendly fire
Six IAF personnel, one civilian were killed as an Mi-17 chopper was shot down in Kashmir on 27 February while Indian and Pakistan air forces were locked in a dogfoght 100 km away.
Pracharak Modi: The mask you see, is the man you get
India has its first leader who is unapologetic about belonging to the social and political Right. This is how Shekhar Gupta foresaw Modi’s five years in this National Interest within three months of his victory in 2014.