Topic: Nehruvian India

On 1 August 1959, C Rajagopalachari addressed the first convention of Swatantra Party in Bombay, criticising the Congress' governance and policies while calling the new party's formation a movement of freedom.

One can be a tad more optimistic today about the revival of Nehruvian economics without the public-sector albatross.

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Menon’s talk on her book ‘Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South’ drew about a hundred professors, academics and students from various universities at Delhi’s India International Centre.

Popular discourse on Nehru’s premiership varies from hagiographic to critical, and has been reduced to slogans. India’s post-independent history is far more nuanced.

SonyLiv's Rocket Boys begins with Nehru's criticism for ‘favouring' Homi Bhabha, whom the PM knew personally. But the show pays a fitting tribute to 'Nehruvian India'.

The Bombay Plan that argued for a mixed-economy was drafted by the likes of J.R.D. Tata, G.D. Birla, Purushottam Das Thakurdas and Ardeshir Shroff.

Nehru's core template for recording history was unity, Modi’s is uniformity. But history, at best, is an 'argument'.

Nehruvian scholars must return to how Jawaharlal Nehru himself viewed history.

Hyper-nationalist Hindutva politics cashes on India’s democratic credentials for external recognition and weakens those institutions and values within.