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TopicNehru

Topic: Nehru

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Talk Point: We need a more robust defence of Nehru’s ideas – for us, not for him

The people currently in power never had a say in building up nation post-independence, and it is very unfortunate that they are denigrating Nehru, who laid the foundation

Talk Point: There would not have been a ‘modern’ India without Nehru

Nehru's footprints can be seen in Kolkata and London, Chennai and New York. He chose the public sector route, but he allowed the private sector to grow.

Talk Point: No need to protect Nehru legacy. If it’s great, it’ll survive; if not, it’ll become history

Nobody can deny Jawaharlal Nehru's role in nation-building because he was the first Prime Minister of India.

From Lord Curzon to BJP’s Sangeet Som, Taj Mahal has many political narratives

Taj Mahal has always functioned as a political text, capable of producing a number of different and even conflicting meanings.

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.