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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicNehru

Topic: Nehru

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.

Partition 1947 – A lesson for 2017

Gurinder Chaddha’s film on partition has no real victors – all characters are taken over by a sense of defeat and betrayal. And just as well. Sanya Dhingra

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.