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Mukherjee writes a confused article . Mukherjee knows Modi is unqualified, and his power is based on demagoguery and communalism, and he has messed up the economy irretrievably. But before he can explain that, he has to malign Nehru first ! You should have the courage of your convictions and say Modi is unfit to be a PM – although many adore him.
Nehru set up India’s space programme and nuclear programme – thereby securing India’s future military security. One has to admire his foresight. Nehru set up the IITs which have generated the graduates who benefited and became rich in America – and now despise him. If the RSS had been in power from the start, we would be a gobar and gomutra centred society (we can see that now). The RSS had no concept of modernity, then and now.
Nehru had no choice about the economic model. After just emerging out of the grip of the East India Company, he could not go and invite multinationals. In any case, western multi nationals only started looking for overseas production some 30-40 years after the end of the colonial period, that is from the 1970s or 1980s. That is when they could not grow by selling their goods within their home markets, and the newly emerging countries could not afford to buy goods made in the west. Then the western companies started to localise production in developing countries. Korea and Taiwan are exceptions and not all the countries who played host to western countries did well – American companies assassinated and overthrew govts. in S. America just like the East India Company. The British East India Company would have been replaced by American ones. It is only because Nehru made India strong with nuclear and space that they cannot play those games now (of course even with space and nuclear power, India may self destruct due to communalism, but that is another story).
Also the author trivialises about the Soviet Union. Nehru went and asked the west to set up a steel factory. They told India to concentrate on agriculture, and they would sell the steel. The Soviet Union set up India’s first steel factory. Hence, don’t be an ingrate and malign the Soviet Union and Nehru. You are viewing with hindsight now because some Indians have migrated to the US, and imagine India could have become like the US if Nehru had gone with the US than the Soviet Union. At that time, the west was willing to sell products, but not the technology to make the products.
Modi is an intellectual pygmy, a demagogue and fascist brought up in the Sangh’s imitative Nazi culture. Nehru was a democrat through and through. He laid the democratic foundations of India – which are crumbling and which the Sanghis wish to finish off in favour of a Hindu Nazi state. Nehru was clear minded about Hindutva – he had said it was fascism, Hindu style.
Where Nehru missed out was he did not set up a universal primary education system, which worked to erase the caste system from childhood itself. He set up IITs, and IISc., which is a top down instead of bottom up approach. It was an elitist oversight. It is the caste system (that Ambedkar denounced as a system of graded inequality), that has made Indian uncompetitive with the rest of the world. Nehru could have a taken a decision to erase this through education (and not by force), just as he decided India must have nuclear and space power. However, religion is difficult to deal with and Nehru was too soft to work out how India could escape from the caste system. That is the only thing I would say he missed out.
With the decay of secular democracy and the rise of a party that wants to model India according to Vedic times with the caste system of Manusmriti, and people’s enthusiasm for it, India has blown its chances. There will be three super powers : US, Russia and China. India will be an also-ran. Neither will it reach the standard of living of the small EU countries nor have their democratic values, or have the wealth of the new countries like Singapore, Korea, Tawian, UAE etc. India will have a large population and poor governance, with frustrations that will break out into civil war. India is now driven by the reactionary forces of historical revanchism, instigated by the new RSS-affiliated political class.
Fuck off.
What a duffer the guy is who wrote such an idiotic article. Spreading fake news in the name of opinions. I am a economist. I very know what’s wrong and what’s right. The person is denying basic facts and economic principles by saying self sufficient donot put food on table. This isn’t 1975-2014 (a socialist country)
Good to see that someone finally acknowledges that nehru made “mistakes” even if so offhandedly. And another someone asks why people kept voting the Congress to power… laughable question. We have lost 3 generations of capability and high intelligence (my grandfather’s father’s and mine) to petty… uncreative… rote learning… education for job and finally doing a mundane job just to get on with life… what all could our nation have become… just if a good indiacentric education was in place… a good futuristic and punctual transport system was set up in every city/ big town… but no… from day 1 only one family had to be made happy… and the rest kept as poor and uneducated as possible… and as divided as possible along so many lines…so much so it seems like a lost game… one person or a few nation minded people cannot do much imo…
Mr Andy Mukherjee,
Please come out of your Pseudo Communist mindset. we are not in 1950s , this is a new age of digitization and information. India being a resource hub will need to realize by atmanirbhar ta means India can drive not only demand but also supply, manufacturing, output and production. Also the immense service industry potential that India has is evident that it is a foremost country in IT/ IT enabled industry all over the world. Under able guidance of Honorable PM Mr. Narendra Modi, India will soon achieve the most developed nation status. You commies can sit out this one and lick China products.
Andy Mukharee is turning out to be first pappu putting pappu rahul in second position and pappi priyanka vadra in third position.Why this first pappu is quite when in 2013 antonio mario called modi maut kaa saudagar and in 2014 pappu rahul tore the page of PM Man Mohan Singh in presence of PM.Why this pappu Mukharjee quite that in Patan pappu rahul said asee machine banaungaa ek jagaha sey aloo dalungaa doosree jagaha sey sona niklega.Why this pappu is quite that pre 1962 when China took over AKSAICHIN Nehru said not a blade of grass grows there.Why this pappu Mukharjee is quite that how badly the Shias,Sufis andAhmedias are mistreted in Porkistan. Why this pappu quite that the katwas and Kashmir killed the Kashmiri Bhramins and they had to leave Srinagar.The worst was 1921 Malabar riots when the Katwas killed the Hindus,Mahatma gandhi supported the katwas. Read the book by Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on Malabar riots blaming Mahatma Gandhi.
Nehru tried to establish self sufficiency agenda during the era when British have looted us and left us as two divided nations.
That’s why it was a flop show….
NaMo is implying this thought during an era, when we have developed ISRO……
Please don’t show your callous mindset by comparing them.
PS : This kind of article will definitely not benifit Congress. If they really want to come as a true opposition, then they have to leave the Nehru-Gandhi family and accept a true leader from the common people of India.
3. Some guys always think that,they have the only perfect idea,policies etc. Ridiculous! Perfectness always vary from frame to frame. Different persons draw their co-ordinates depending on their situations. These guys use to forget that, these PMOs formed by majority.Means,mejority hope that,its better. Who does not hope for better results,they should invest themselves to make a better opponent,rather thn criticizing the majority. Though I love to read these comics,headed by RAGA. lol !
4. Just to remind, we all are lucky that, we are from India,incuding team RAGA. There are very few places in this world like here, that is why it is very easy to sustain for a pappu opponent. Better you guys should invest your positive energies to get a better opponent,rather thn a pappu opponent.
Carry on guys! Better luck next time! Be happy, what ever may be.
1. India, an unique country. We can not compare us with other countries.Results got from any implemented policies are different for India with others.Same things happened in different countries also.Communism is the best example for Chaina ,North Korea and Soviet Union. I think, it is better not to compair with other countries, rather then finding what are the wrong things we did in past for not getting the expected results from implemented policies. Just like unique India , another unique thing hidden behind all failures is Corruption. Is not it !
All countries are in top of the list, which are in bottom of the corruption index. Generally start and end of corruption happen from top,not from bottom.Ideology may be different but this is the universal fact that, just like we got most corrupted PMs and ministers under them,rather thn less corrupted PMs and ministers,in past. I always hope for positive results , when a less corrupted PMO sitting there.
2. We should always engage in any work, rather thn sitting idle. This is universal truth. Present PMOs are much better un implementing this universal truth, rather thn earliers.In addition, Gujrat is an example of smart work,not a shoddy work at all.
Protectionism ,self reliance and ‘swadeshi’ model/concepts work
only when a country has made sufficient economic progress to
reach ‘middle class’economy status.local industry is then sustained by adequate local demand.
Till that time,we will have to depend upon FDI inflows.Protectionism
will completely derail the process
Of wealth creation of necessary levels.
Nehru deserves to be praised
for his contributions but also
Has to shoulder blame for many
of his negative inputs .
Typical is bending over backwards
To accommodate minorities at cost
of majority . He had the opportunity to create equality but miserably failed .
Its a long list but these selfopinionated brats should study the facts prevailing at that time .
Also imprint and wire and ndtv are only encouraging antimajority elements when democracy is only about majority in elections .
Secularism means neutral . It also means nationalism in our context .
You would do well to
confine yourself to good of country instead of cofusing people wth nonsense . If u don’t want Modi , oppose him . But dont let the hatred blinker you from serving the country with unadulterated news . Abd please no Andy pandy type of cockeyed opinions . Last but not the least do not succumb to ” modern western economy “. This is how East India Co. enslaved us . Let us not be tools again like Andy wants .
I am fairly well educated science student and good knowledge of our history . There is not much difference between a globalist and a fifth columnist.
I’d rather be poor Swadeshi rather then Globalised Businessman .
So set your sights straight.
Thank you .
If you will be a poor Swadeshi then you will not pay taxes and will be a burden on country only..I don’t think any nationalist want to be a burden on his nation
You accuse Nehru thus :
‘Typical is bending over backwards To accommodate minorities at cost of majority . He had the opportunity to create equality but miserably failed .’
In what way did the majority suffer ? Give some explicit examples. Look at the 25 top defaulters. No minorities. Look at all the ones who instigate riots – RSS. Look at the gang rapists – no minorities. Look at the vigilantes and law breakers – no minorities.
‘He had the opportunity to create equality but miserably failed’. Ambedkar held that Indian society was a system of graded inequality. I agree that Nehru did not take sufficient steps to correct it. But then, is the RSS-BJP taking the steps to create equality ? They say the system of graded inequality, according to Manu, is the ideal model of development. What is your view on this ? What proposal do you have to end this system of graded inequality ? Do you realise that to create equality, you have to transform Hinduism radically ?
The concepts of liberte, egailite and fraternite are from the French revolution, and these were brought to us through the British. Neither Hindus nor Muslims had these notions. Hindu concepts are diametrically opposite on this.
If nehru was not good for the country then why Indians time and again voted for Congress for so many years. Please clarify.
India respects Sardar jis for the be a Very and, I bet there will be no future primeministers like Manmohan and Indira.
Dividing the country on religious line did happen in Pakistan by making it Islamic some 30 yrs back and the result is in open about that countries state of affairs now. Hope we too dont make the same mistake in this era.
there was no opposition to congress during initial years of independence
Rahi you are turning out to be first pappu putting pappu rahul in second position . Indira Gandhi imposed emergency for twenty one months and surprisingly President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the letter of Indira Gandhi.See put
many opposition leaders in prison Why are you quite that in 2013 pappi 1 antonio mario called modi maut kaa saudagar and jn 2014 pappu rahul tore the page of PM Man mohan singh in presence of PM.Why are you quite that pre 1962 when China occupied AKSAI CHIN Nehru said not a blade of grass grows there.Why are you quite that in Porkistan how the Shias,Sufus and Ahmedias are mist reated.See how the Kashmiri pundits were killed by the katwas and they had to leave Kashmir
Nehru took over as PM of devastated India after British rule of 200 years , his immediate challenges were different, today the challenges are different. It is extremely easy to criticize people. I remember a story wherein a painter displayed his painting and ask people to point out the mistakes and the entire canvas was full of crosses indicating the mistakes, the next day he put up the painting asking people to point out the good things but there were hardly any pointers. Human tendency is to find mistakes . It is easy to say Nehru did this and Gandhi did that but what ever has happened cannot be undone by criticism, every one makes mistakes , no human being is perfect. We need to discard the bad things and adapt the good things and move ahead. It’s not that as we move forward there will not be any mistakes committed, a regular and close review should be done so that wrong doings can be immediately corrected and for this strong opposition is required in a democracy for healthy progress. Ask what have I contributed for the progress of the nation and not what the country has done for me.
As very said above its clearly evident that above analogy given is baseless. Self sufficiency in 1950s only with public sector without any foreign investors, but Modi Sufficiency is Establishing Indian companies along with foreign investors. It creates healthy competition and its creates lot of revenue generation. Its good for india as whole.
The major point ignored by this author is that foreign capital, technology and international collaboration is driving the “self sufficiency” this time, as against a “closed economy” then. Public enterprises then and privatization now is another big change.
I don’t understand this article. India can never duplicate or emulate. As many “experts” have suggested it has to follow its own course to meet with the promised tryst with destiny.
He knows well about keral peoples voteing pattern..but taken pot shots by highlighting weaknesses of pinayari… Kerala voters R VERY clever n not let BJP make inroads in State.
Stop telling half truth
India is not,Nehru did not lay the rails of democracy
His hunger and ambitions to be prime minister got us partition
If he was secular and ready to accept Jinnah as prime minister it would have been a different story
Express your views neutrally
Democracy is in people’s hand
If they feel the government is not up to mark they will throw as they didn’t re elect NDA after vajapayee or L K Advani got the mandate
People are not fools
So stop this nautanki
Respect people mandate
Self reliance with competitiveness is NOT so called Nehru model of running-after foreigners as well as pseudo-secularism.
This article is designed to create confusion on India’s capabilities.
Congress has never credited PV Narsingha Rao, Ex-PM & architecture of open-clmpitive economic reform.
This is why the Print fails in the proper analysis of the situation. Nehru did “suggest” self-sufficiency but he tried to do it through the public sector. Hence he failed.
Modi is promoting & supporting private sector to develop self-sufficiency. Private sector is efficient, public sector is not. Hence Modi will win where Nehru failed.
Andy Mukherjee needs to have his head examined..
Why?. He says Modi is copying Nehru. By copying s lf suffi ncy model that Nehru never had.
Regards Import Tariffs, the Nehruvian Era had import tariffs on almost everything at much higher rates and supervised by his License Raj of modern day zamindari politicians and beurocracy.
Does Andy know that 3 motor bike brands from Europe are already in India, with many down stream ancillary units getting in place.
TPA is also an area where local manufacturing is getting in place.
Andy Mukherjee needs to have his head examined..
Why?. He says Modi is copying Nehru. By copying s lf suffi ncy model that Nehru never had.
Regards Import Tariffs, the Nehruvian Era had import tariffs on almost everything at much higher rates and supervised by his License Raj of modern day zamindari politicians and beurocracy.
Does Andy know that 3 motor bike brands from Europe are already in India, with many down stream ancillary units getting in place.
TPA is also an area where local manufacturing is getting in place.
NEHRU WAS SELFISH,NEVER PUT COUNTRY FIRST.HE WAS MINORITY APPEASER.PATEL WAS THE FIRST’ CHOICE OF THE COUNTRY THAT TIME,B’COZ OF GANDHI HE BECAME PM.HE WAS SELECTED PM ,RATHER THAN ELECTED.BCOZ OF HIM INDIA LOST
A PERMANENT PLACE IN UN SECURITY COUNCL.BCOZ OF HIM POK, 10000sq.km LAND WAS LOST IN LADAKH REGION.INNUMEROUS LOSSES TO COUNTRY DURING HIS TENUR.HE WAS SELFISH,HE ONLY STARTED DYNESTY POLITICS.NARENDRA MODI JI HALTED FEW SUCH LOSSES.HE MUST BE THERE ON PM CHAIR UNTILL HIS LAST,THEN IT IS POSSIBLE TO REVERSE ALL NEHRU’S BAD DEEDS.
This is a Pidi media. Pidi is name of pet dog of Raul Vinci. Days of Antonia Miano, Raul Vinci and gang are over. You are criticising Modiji by comparing his policies with those of Nehru, thus trying to look more authentic. You must mind that Nehru was not a son of soil. He was aUK educated guy. He was so confused that he considered himself an accidental hindu. I think that he was an accident personified. He brought about so many accidents in our country. Modiji is a son of soil. He does not treat himself an accidental hindu. He is not a seasonal hindu. As such he is not required to disclose his gotra. He is not ashamed of his hindu identity. So, he need not show his janeo by putting it over his shirt. You must criticise Pt Nehru independantly . He had committed blunders after blunders. He has given many scope to be criticised. You write on them. You must criticise China also because it has become an industrial hub and have become atmanirbhav. In fact you do not want us to be atmanirbhav.
2021 is not 1947. There is no comparison about what India is now capable of, or what a globalised world has to offer in terms of growth opportunities. I am certain if Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru were alive today, he would have modified his economic orthodoxy drastically, unrecognisably. Let us stop living in the past. 2. If some are really in the mood to criticise the Family – although the dead do no wrong – the 1980s would be a more appropriate comparison. Mrs Gandhi’s concluding term and Rajiv Gandhi’s only one were a very tough decade for India. Troubles in Punjab, Assam, Sri Lanka. And this at the time when China ignited its Saturn V rocket. 3. This also links up with today’s National Interest column. There is no justification for either the state of the economy or how it is being helmed.
Educated people can understand how India has grown from rags to riches ,from hunger to excess food grains. Please once go through the speech of pundit Nehru from redfort ” trust with destiny ” In 1947 ,when we got independence ,our population was 60 crs ,we don’t have foreign exchange ,we don’t have country’s balance sheet ,people were suffering with hunger and malnutrition. We relied on wheat and milk powder imported from US under PL 480. Later with green revolution and white revolution we became exporters of food grains. Similarly in other fields. Our IITs IIMare testimony for future vision of Nehru and his team. Our steel plant established withthe help of then USSR ,our irrigation projects ,power projects are testimony for the seeds down for development. Better we go through our 5 year plans see the achievements f.
Don’t reproduce articles from Print, Scroll, etc. They always represent negative side of everything. Instead use articles standard s like Indian express, Hindustan times, times of India, etc
There is hardly any resemblance between Nehru and Modi. While Nehru placed emphasis on the public sector utilities, Modi lauds the contribution of private sector. Most sectors are open 100% for foreign investors. Recently foreign investment limit in insurance sector has been increased to 75% despite the protests from the socialists. Labour laws have been rationalised, corporate taxes are one of the lowest.
Mukherjee writes a confused article . Mukherjee knows Modi is unqualified, and his power is based on demagoguery and communalism, and he has messed up the economy irretrievably. But before he can explain that, he has to malign Nehru first ! You should have the courage of your convictions and say Modi is unfit to be a PM – although many adore him.
Nehru set up India’s space programme and nuclear programme – thereby securing India’s future military security. One has to admire his foresight. Nehru set up the IITs which have generated the graduates who benefited and became rich in America – and now despise him. If the RSS had been in power from the start, we would be a gobar and gomutra centred society (we can see that now). The RSS had no concept of modernity, then and now.
Nehru had no choice about the economic model. After just emerging out of the grip of the East India Company, he could not go and invite multinationals. In any case, western multi nationals only started looking for overseas production some 30-40 years after the end of the colonial period, that is from the 1970s or 1980s. That is when they could not grow by selling their goods within their home markets, and the newly emerging countries could not afford to buy goods made in the west. Then the western companies started to localise production in developing countries. Korea and Taiwan are exceptions and not all the countries who played host to western countries did well – American companies assassinated and overthrew govts. in S. America just like the East India Company. The British East India Company would have been replaced by American ones. It is only because Nehru made India strong with nuclear and space that they cannot play those games now (of course even with space and nuclear power, India may self destruct due to communalism, but that is another story).
Also the author trivialises about the Soviet Union. Nehru went and asked the west to set up a steel factory. They told India to concentrate on agriculture, and they would sell the steel. The Soviet Union set up India’s first steel factory. Hence, don’t be an ingrate and malign the Soviet Union and Nehru. You are viewing with hindsight now because some Indians have migrated to the US, and imagine India could have become like the US if Nehru had gone with the US than the Soviet Union. At that time, the west was willing to sell products, but not the technology to make the products.
Modi is an intellectual pygmy, a demagogue and fascist brought up in the Sangh’s imitative Nazi culture. Nehru was a democrat through and through. He laid the democratic foundations of India – which are crumbling and which the Sanghis wish to finish off in favour of a Hindu Nazi state. Nehru was clear minded about Hindutva – he had said it was fascism, Hindu style.
Where Nehru missed out was he did not set up a universal primary education system, which worked to erase the caste system from childhood itself. He set up IITs, and IISc., which is a top down instead of bottom up approach. It was an elitist oversight. It is the caste system (that Ambedkar denounced as a system of graded inequality), that has made Indian uncompetitive with the rest of the world. Nehru could have a taken a decision to erase this through education (and not by force), just as he decided India must have nuclear and space power. However, religion is difficult to deal with and Nehru was too soft to work out how India could escape from the caste system. That is the only thing I would say he missed out.
With the decay of secular democracy and the rise of a party that wants to model India according to Vedic times with the caste system of Manusmriti, and people’s enthusiasm for it, India has blown its chances. There will be three super powers : US, Russia and China. India will be an also-ran. Neither will it reach the standard of living of the small EU countries nor have their democratic values, or have the wealth of the new countries like Singapore, Korea, Tawian, UAE etc. India will have a large population and poor governance, with frustrations that will break out into civil war. India is now driven by the reactionary forces of historical revanchism, instigated by the new RSS-affiliated political class.
Does Mukherjee not know this ?
Coooool
Fuck off.
What a duffer the guy is who wrote such an idiotic article. Spreading fake news in the name of opinions. I am a economist. I very know what’s wrong and what’s right. The person is denying basic facts and economic principles by saying self sufficient donot put food on table. This isn’t 1975-2014 (a socialist country)
Good to see that someone finally acknowledges that nehru made “mistakes” even if so offhandedly. And another someone asks why people kept voting the Congress to power… laughable question. We have lost 3 generations of capability and high intelligence (my grandfather’s father’s and mine) to petty… uncreative… rote learning… education for job and finally doing a mundane job just to get on with life… what all could our nation have become… just if a good indiacentric education was in place… a good futuristic and punctual transport system was set up in every city/ big town… but no… from day 1 only one family had to be made happy… and the rest kept as poor and uneducated as possible… and as divided as possible along so many lines…so much so it seems like a lost game… one person or a few nation minded people cannot do much imo…
Don’t not destroy the past the are one
Time is time not about to seek pleasure for The past. They did about the situation, so you are here we need to praise the past.
Time is time not about to seek pleasure for The past. They did about the situation, so you are here we need to praise the past
Mr Andy Mukherjee,
Please come out of your Pseudo Communist mindset. we are not in 1950s , this is a new age of digitization and information. India being a resource hub will need to realize by atmanirbhar ta means India can drive not only demand but also supply, manufacturing, output and production. Also the immense service industry potential that India has is evident that it is a foremost country in IT/ IT enabled industry all over the world. Under able guidance of Honorable PM Mr. Narendra Modi, India will soon achieve the most developed nation status. You commies can sit out this one and lick China products.
Like you’re licking Modi’s product?
Andy Mukharee is turning out to be first pappu putting pappu rahul in second position and pappi priyanka vadra in third position.Why this first pappu is quite when in 2013 antonio mario called modi maut kaa saudagar and in 2014 pappu rahul tore the page of PM Man Mohan Singh in presence of PM.Why this pappu Mukharjee quite that in Patan pappu rahul said asee machine banaungaa ek jagaha sey aloo dalungaa doosree jagaha sey sona niklega.Why this pappu is quite that pre 1962 when China took over AKSAICHIN Nehru said not a blade of grass grows there.Why this pappu Mukharjee is quite that how badly the Shias,Sufis andAhmedias are mistreted in Porkistan. Why this pappu quite that the katwas and Kashmir killed the Kashmiri Bhramins and they had to leave Srinagar.The worst was 1921 Malabar riots when the Katwas killed the Hindus,Mahatma gandhi supported the katwas. Read the book by Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on Malabar riots blaming Mahatma Gandhi.
Nehru tried to establish self sufficiency agenda during the era when British have looted us and left us as two divided nations.
That’s why it was a flop show….
NaMo is implying this thought during an era, when we have developed ISRO……
Please don’t show your callous mindset by comparing them.
PS : This kind of article will definitely not benifit Congress. If they really want to come as a true opposition, then they have to leave the Nehru-Gandhi family and accept a true leader from the common people of India.
3. Some guys always think that,they have the only perfect idea,policies etc. Ridiculous! Perfectness always vary from frame to frame. Different persons draw their co-ordinates depending on their situations. These guys use to forget that, these PMOs formed by majority.Means,mejority hope that,its better. Who does not hope for better results,they should invest themselves to make a better opponent,rather thn criticizing the majority. Though I love to read these comics,headed by RAGA. lol !
4. Just to remind, we all are lucky that, we are from India,incuding team RAGA. There are very few places in this world like here, that is why it is very easy to sustain for a pappu opponent. Better you guys should invest your positive energies to get a better opponent,rather thn a pappu opponent.
Carry on guys! Better luck next time! Be happy, what ever may be.
1. India, an unique country. We can not compare us with other countries.Results got from any implemented policies are different for India with others.Same things happened in different countries also.Communism is the best example for Chaina ,North Korea and Soviet Union. I think, it is better not to compair with other countries, rather then finding what are the wrong things we did in past for not getting the expected results from implemented policies. Just like unique India , another unique thing hidden behind all failures is Corruption. Is not it !
All countries are in top of the list, which are in bottom of the corruption index. Generally start and end of corruption happen from top,not from bottom.Ideology may be different but this is the universal fact that, just like we got most corrupted PMs and ministers under them,rather thn less corrupted PMs and ministers,in past. I always hope for positive results , when a less corrupted PMO sitting there.
2. We should always engage in any work, rather thn sitting idle. This is universal truth. Present PMOs are much better un implementing this universal truth, rather thn earliers.In addition, Gujrat is an example of smart work,not a shoddy work at all.
Protectionism ,self reliance and ‘swadeshi’ model/concepts work
only when a country has made sufficient economic progress to
reach ‘middle class’economy status.local industry is then sustained by adequate local demand.
Till that time,we will have to depend upon FDI inflows.Protectionism
will completely derail the process
Of wealth creation of necessary levels.
Nehru deserves to be praised
for his contributions but also
Has to shoulder blame for many
of his negative inputs .
Typical is bending over backwards
To accommodate minorities at cost
of majority . He had the opportunity to create equality but miserably failed .
Its a long list but these selfopinionated brats should study the facts prevailing at that time .
Also imprint and wire and ndtv are only encouraging antimajority elements when democracy is only about majority in elections .
Secularism means neutral . It also means nationalism in our context .
You would do well to
confine yourself to good of country instead of cofusing people wth nonsense . If u don’t want Modi , oppose him . But dont let the hatred blinker you from serving the country with unadulterated news . Abd please no Andy pandy type of cockeyed opinions . Last but not the least do not succumb to ” modern western economy “. This is how East India Co. enslaved us . Let us not be tools again like Andy wants .
I am fairly well educated science student and good knowledge of our history . There is not much difference between a globalist and a fifth columnist.
I’d rather be poor Swadeshi rather then Globalised Businessman .
So set your sights straight.
Thank you .
If you will be a poor Swadeshi then you will not pay taxes and will be a burden on country only..I don’t think any nationalist want to be a burden on his nation
You accuse Nehru thus :
‘Typical is bending over backwards To accommodate minorities at cost of majority . He had the opportunity to create equality but miserably failed .’
In what way did the majority suffer ? Give some explicit examples. Look at the 25 top defaulters. No minorities. Look at all the ones who instigate riots – RSS. Look at the gang rapists – no minorities. Look at the vigilantes and law breakers – no minorities.
‘He had the opportunity to create equality but miserably failed’. Ambedkar held that Indian society was a system of graded inequality. I agree that Nehru did not take sufficient steps to correct it. But then, is the RSS-BJP taking the steps to create equality ? They say the system of graded inequality, according to Manu, is the ideal model of development. What is your view on this ? What proposal do you have to end this system of graded inequality ? Do you realise that to create equality, you have to transform Hinduism radically ?
The concepts of liberte, egailite and fraternite are from the French revolution, and these were brought to us through the British. Neither Hindus nor Muslims had these notions. Hindu concepts are diametrically opposite on this.
If nehru was not good for the country then why Indians time and again voted for Congress for so many years. Please clarify.
India respects Sardar jis for the be a Very and, I bet there will be no future primeministers like Manmohan and Indira.
Dividing the country on religious line did happen in Pakistan by making it Islamic some 30 yrs back and the result is in open about that countries state of affairs now. Hope we too dont make the same mistake in this era.
there was no opposition to congress during initial years of independence
Rahi you are turning out to be first pappu putting pappu rahul in second position . Indira Gandhi imposed emergency for twenty one months and surprisingly President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the letter of Indira Gandhi.See put
many opposition leaders in prison Why are you quite that in 2013 pappi 1 antonio mario called modi maut kaa saudagar and jn 2014 pappu rahul tore the page of PM Man mohan singh in presence of PM.Why are you quite that pre 1962 when China occupied AKSAI CHIN Nehru said not a blade of grass grows there.Why are you quite that in Porkistan how the Shias,Sufus and Ahmedias are mist reated.See how the Kashmiri pundits were killed by the katwas and they had to leave Kashmir
Nehru took over as PM of devastated India after British rule of 200 years , his immediate challenges were different, today the challenges are different. It is extremely easy to criticize people. I remember a story wherein a painter displayed his painting and ask people to point out the mistakes and the entire canvas was full of crosses indicating the mistakes, the next day he put up the painting asking people to point out the good things but there were hardly any pointers. Human tendency is to find mistakes . It is easy to say Nehru did this and Gandhi did that but what ever has happened cannot be undone by criticism, every one makes mistakes , no human being is perfect. We need to discard the bad things and adapt the good things and move ahead. It’s not that as we move forward there will not be any mistakes committed, a regular and close review should be done so that wrong doings can be immediately corrected and for this strong opposition is required in a democracy for healthy progress. Ask what have I contributed for the progress of the nation and not what the country has done for me.
As very said above its clearly evident that above analogy given is baseless. Self sufficiency in 1950s only with public sector without any foreign investors, but Modi Sufficiency is Establishing Indian companies along with foreign investors. It creates healthy competition and its creates lot of revenue generation. Its good for india as whole.
The major point ignored by this author is that foreign capital, technology and international collaboration is driving the “self sufficiency” this time, as against a “closed economy” then. Public enterprises then and privatization now is another big change.
I don’t understand this article. India can never duplicate or emulate. As many “experts” have suggested it has to follow its own course to meet with the promised tryst with destiny.
Tail piece: Stop comparing
He knows well about keral peoples voteing pattern..but taken pot shots by highlighting weaknesses of pinayari… Kerala voters R VERY clever n not let BJP make inroads in State.
Stop telling half truth
India is not,Nehru did not lay the rails of democracy
His hunger and ambitions to be prime minister got us partition
If he was secular and ready to accept Jinnah as prime minister it would have been a different story
Express your views neutrally
Democracy is in people’s hand
If they feel the government is not up to mark they will throw as they didn’t re elect NDA after vajapayee or L K Advani got the mandate
People are not fools
So stop this nautanki
Respect people mandate
Vikram you are absolutely right
Bhak bakland
तुम नेहरू के नाना, या मुगलो की पैदाइश हो, जो नेहरू का गुणगान कर रहे हो। नेहरू चरित्रहींन और अय्याश था। जिसका परिणाम आज भी देश भुगत रहा है।
Balanced and nicely put Mr Mukherjee. ?
Nehru jese desh bechne nai baithe hai modi
Self reliance with competitiveness is NOT so called Nehru model of running-after foreigners as well as pseudo-secularism.
This article is designed to create confusion on India’s capabilities.
Congress has never credited PV Narsingha Rao, Ex-PM & architecture of open-clmpitive economic reform.
Very well said
This is why the Print fails in the proper analysis of the situation. Nehru did “suggest” self-sufficiency but he tried to do it through the public sector. Hence he failed.
Modi is promoting & supporting private sector to develop self-sufficiency. Private sector is efficient, public sector is not. Hence Modi will win where Nehru failed.
Well said @Vivek p Nair… Totally agree with you.
Andy Mukherjee needs to have his head examined..
Why?. He says Modi is copying Nehru. By copying s lf suffi ncy model that Nehru never had.
Regards Import Tariffs, the Nehruvian Era had import tariffs on almost everything at much higher rates and supervised by his License Raj of modern day zamindari politicians and beurocracy.
Does Andy know that 3 motor bike brands from Europe are already in India, with many down stream ancillary units getting in place.
TPA is also an area where local manufacturing is getting in place.
Andy Mukherjee needs to have his head examined..
Why?. He says Modi is copying Nehru. By copying s lf suffi ncy model that Nehru never had.
Regards Import Tariffs, the Nehruvian Era had import tariffs on almost everything at much higher rates and supervised by his License Raj of modern day zamindari politicians and beurocracy.
Does Andy know that 3 motor bike brands from Europe are already in India, with many down stream ancillary units getting in place.
TPA is also an area where local manufacturing is getting in place.
NEHRU WAS SELFISH,NEVER PUT COUNTRY FIRST.HE WAS MINORITY APPEASER.PATEL WAS THE FIRST’ CHOICE OF THE COUNTRY THAT TIME,B’COZ OF GANDHI HE BECAME PM.HE WAS SELECTED PM ,RATHER THAN ELECTED.BCOZ OF HIM INDIA LOST
A PERMANENT PLACE IN UN SECURITY COUNCL.BCOZ OF HIM POK, 10000sq.km LAND WAS LOST IN LADAKH REGION.INNUMEROUS LOSSES TO COUNTRY DURING HIS TENUR.HE WAS SELFISH,HE ONLY STARTED DYNESTY POLITICS.NARENDRA MODI JI HALTED FEW SUCH LOSSES.HE MUST BE THERE ON PM CHAIR UNTILL HIS LAST,THEN IT IS POSSIBLE TO REVERSE ALL NEHRU’S BAD DEEDS.
This is a Pidi media. Pidi is name of pet dog of Raul Vinci. Days of Antonia Miano, Raul Vinci and gang are over. You are criticising Modiji by comparing his policies with those of Nehru, thus trying to look more authentic. You must mind that Nehru was not a son of soil. He was aUK educated guy. He was so confused that he considered himself an accidental hindu. I think that he was an accident personified. He brought about so many accidents in our country. Modiji is a son of soil. He does not treat himself an accidental hindu. He is not a seasonal hindu. As such he is not required to disclose his gotra. He is not ashamed of his hindu identity. So, he need not show his janeo by putting it over his shirt. You must criticise Pt Nehru independantly . He had committed blunders after blunders. He has given many scope to be criticised. You write on them. You must criticise China also because it has become an industrial hub and have become atmanirbhav. In fact you do not want us to be atmanirbhav.
2021 is not 1947. There is no comparison about what India is now capable of, or what a globalised world has to offer in terms of growth opportunities. I am certain if Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru were alive today, he would have modified his economic orthodoxy drastically, unrecognisably. Let us stop living in the past. 2. If some are really in the mood to criticise the Family – although the dead do no wrong – the 1980s would be a more appropriate comparison. Mrs Gandhi’s concluding term and Rajiv Gandhi’s only one were a very tough decade for India. Troubles in Punjab, Assam, Sri Lanka. And this at the time when China ignited its Saturn V rocket. 3. This also links up with today’s National Interest column. There is no justification for either the state of the economy or how it is being helmed.
Educated people can understand how India has grown from rags to riches ,from hunger to excess food grains. Please once go through the speech of pundit Nehru from redfort ” trust with destiny ” In 1947 ,when we got independence ,our population was 60 crs ,we don’t have foreign exchange ,we don’t have country’s balance sheet ,people were suffering with hunger and malnutrition. We relied on wheat and milk powder imported from US under PL 480. Later with green revolution and white revolution we became exporters of food grains. Similarly in other fields. Our IITs IIMare testimony for future vision of Nehru and his team. Our steel plant established withthe help of then USSR ,our irrigation projects ,power projects are testimony for the seeds down for development. Better we go through our 5 year plans see the achievements f.
Gajab ka analysis h.
Kaha se laate ho itna faltu dimag?
The print and scroll are both anti India . Always stoking dissatisfaction
Enjoy your burnol moments
Best of luck
Don’t reproduce articles from Print, Scroll, etc. They always represent negative side of everything. Instead use articles standard s like Indian express, Hindustan times, times of India, etc
There is hardly any resemblance between Nehru and Modi. While Nehru placed emphasis on the public sector utilities, Modi lauds the contribution of private sector. Most sectors are open 100% for foreign investors. Recently foreign investment limit in insurance sector has been increased to 75% despite the protests from the socialists. Labour laws have been rationalised, corporate taxes are one of the lowest.
You moron, atma nirbhar is not equivalent to Nehruvian self-sufficiency. Do your home work before you put pen to the proverbial paper.