The Last Viceroy of India: Book Review
This is a review of the book, Nehru: A Troubled Legacy by R N P Singh, New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2015 The English historian, politician, and writer Lord John Dalberg-Acton wrote in an 1887 letter to Bishop Creighton, More...
Nehru’s India: A Country That Is Not A Nation
Democracy in a New Nation In 1831, a twenty-six year old French nobleman by name Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville landed in America carrying a commission from the French monarch Louis-Philippe (of the More...
Acchhe Din Are Already Here
Jawaharlal Nehru ruled as Prime Minister from 1947-64 and laid such amazing economic foundations that we went bankrupt in 1991. His daughter Indira Gandhi comes second in the number of years ruled and has the worst More...
Nehru exposed: Snooping on Bose’s kin
The recent revelations that Jawaharlal Nehru snooped on Subhas Chandra Bose’s kin will go a long way exposing the first prime minister as a cunning politician. Generations of Indians have been fed on the Congress-Left More...
The real truth of the JNU Kashmiri food stall controversy
On 28 January, the Hindu news report titled “JNU food fight gets messier” claimed how Students from Kashmir in JNU on Tuesday distributed kahwah in a protest after ABVP didn’t allow students from Kashmir More...
Jawaharlal Nehru the committed Communist
This essay forms the foreword of Sita Ram Goel’s study of Jawaharlal Nehru titled Genesis and Growth of Nehruism. Authored by the former British Comintern agent Philip Spratt in 1963, it is a relatively More...
Building the Nehru dynasty brand using taxpayer money: An Infographic
One of the oft-overlooked facts about the Nehru dynasty is how its members carefully nurtured a vast ecosystem in almost every sphere of national life. And one of the ways in which the Nehru dynasty did it was by More...
KASHMIR ISSUE BEGINS WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION
The gory struggle for land is one of the most recurring as well as regrettable chapter in the history of mankind, and the 20th Century is no exception. Whether it is Greece vs Turkey over Cyprus, Armenia vs Azerbaijan More...
A Primer on Economics: the disastrous impact of the Nehru Rate of Growth
Counterfactuals are generally instructive and entertaining. But in some cases, it can be deeply distressing to consider them. Those leave us sadder although wiser. And at times they provoke us to anger and outrage More...
Narendra Modi: the first anti-Nehruvian Prime Minister
Some men, wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, are born posthumously. But some men also die posthumously: Jawaharlal Nehru belongs to this category. Biologically, he died on 27 May 1964, at the age of 74. But it was almost More...