Post-1947, it was the Anglicised-Hindu Class that became the chosen people upon whom all the dreams and hopes of Jawaharlal Nehru for a “modern India” rested. Nirad C. Chaudhury described them — “….as a separate ethnic entity with its own collective psychology. It is constituted by the Hindus of the Anglicized upper middle-class, and isContinue reading “The end of the Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-2 of 3)”
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The end of Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-1 of 3)
In speech after speech both in Parliament and outside, PM Modi in the last 10 years has never missed seizing upon any opportunity to denigrate the general culture of the Anglicised Hindus of India who PM Jawaharlal Nehru in his own time did so much to nurture and groom as the nation-builders of what wasContinue reading “The end of Nehruvium and the Anglicised-Hindu Class (Part-1 of 3)”
Ayodhya Ram Temple is Vedic Civilization’s way of saying, “I’m not going down the Egyptian Pharaonic way”.
Between 1993 and 2020, as an expatriate corporate manager I lived and worked in … and travelled through …. several Arabic-Islamic countries in the GCC ( Arabian Gulf Council countries) and MENA (Middle East and North Africa countries). From my various resident-bases in Bahrain, Kuwait City, Cairo and then Riyadh, my work took me onContinue reading “Ayodhya Ram Temple is Vedic Civilization’s way of saying, “I’m not going down the Egyptian Pharaonic way”.”
If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch
If you scroll down right to the bottom of this blogpost you will be able to read a very interesting absorbing piece from a slice of Indian History in the days leading to the completion of the drafting of the Indian Constitution! It is a historic narration of course but today it can now onlyContinue reading “If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch”
Why is sauce for Nehru’s goose not sauce for Modi’s gander?
Progress in such a complicated matter has to be necessarily slow and incremental. Maybe a beginning can be made with divorce laws, succession and inheritance laws. Even here legislation should not be rushed through Parliament without discussions. Otherwise, such legislation will meet the fate of the farm laws. —- a common citizen’s quote to meContinue reading “Why is sauce for Nehru’s goose not sauce for Modi’s gander?”
POLL: Which 4 Indian leaders would deserve to be memorialised on an India version of Mt. Rushmore?
On Mount Rushmore , Vermont, in the USA , to memorialise them, on a huge tall mountain cliff are sculpted the faces of 4 of the tallest leaders in American History : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson , Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln . If a similar memorial were to be also carved somewhere, say, onContinue reading “POLL: Which 4 Indian leaders would deserve to be memorialised on an India version of Mt. Rushmore?”
Jawaharlal Nehru discovered INDIA… how did he miss Prayagraj ?
Jawaharlal Nehru in his Will wrote these words and was quoted by some anonymous person who inserted a small correction to it by way of a harmless parenthesis which raised some shackles : A good friend of mine — a fine Parsi gentleman— reacted to above in the following words in an email to meContinue reading “Jawaharlal Nehru discovered INDIA… how did he miss Prayagraj ?”