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Topic: Nehru

PNB’s long journey from being the first swadeshi bank to the Nirav Modi fraud

Subrata Panda -
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

Kumar Ketkar -
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

Shekhar Gupta -
Indira’s change of heart got trapped between two tragic air crashes, one killing her most Left minister, and other, her economically Right son.

Modi says if Patel had been PM, all of Kashmir would’ve been India’s. Unlikely, say experts

Vandana Menon -
Modi said that had Patel become Prime Minister all of Kashmir might have been part of India. Many have pointed out that historical accounts don't support this theory.  

When Maharajas, business tycoons and peasant leaders joined the mundu-clad Rajaji to form the Swatantra Party

Jaithirth Rao -
The Swatantra Party wandered in the wilderness for a few years and then disappeared but it succeeded even as it failed.

BJP shouldn’t be apologetic about amending Constitution. It should learn from Congress

Ananth Krishna -
The legislative might of Nehru and Indira Gandhi prevailed, even though the judiciary tried to save the Constitution from amendment.

Rahul Gandhi is truly a cosmo-religious man

Kumar Ketkar -
Raising religion as an issue in the emerging campaign shows that the BJP is losing its development plank and is re-polarising the electorate.

Talk Point: Nehru’s pragmatic approach to foreign policy will continue to endure

Jaithirth Rao -
Jawaharlal Nehru was a successful leader of his time. The important thing to remember is the expression “of his time”.

Talk Point: Nothing of Nehru’s vision could endure, he should be placed peacefully in history

Shankar Sharan -
Jawaharlal Nehru was not original in his views. He was of a poetic nature, but his views were formed by the liberalism in Europe and Fabian socialism.

TalkPoint: We are isolated from the world of solidarity that Nehru had constructed

Neera Chandhoke -
We have to sadly recognise that determined efforts have been made by the party in power to erase Nehru's memory from the annals of modern India.
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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

D.K. Singh -
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Muslims never held Akbar in high regard. Hindus made him ‘Great’

Bihar voter list revision is not anti-democratic—India can’t let illegals influence polls

Economy

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

Udit Bubna -
SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

Defence

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

National Interest

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

Shekhar Gupta -
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.

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