the hagiography of jawaharlal is a very profitable cottage industry in india. it is great that at least one or two people are standing up and saying "wait, the emperor has no clothes".
1. the guy had limited intelligence but an inflated opinion of himself. he basically just didn't know a lot of things, and wasn't clever enough to know that he didn't know stuff
2. he simply hated hinduism, and has created an entire generation of JNU-types that also hates hinduism
3. he really was a stalinist, and i am glad swapan uses that very term
4. he didn't like chilluns that much, as i noted before. it was just clever marketing about 'chilluns day'.
5. he was a total economic disaster. in fact he perpetrated a crime against humanity by forcing 500 million indians to languish in desperate poverty.
see my detailed critique of the blighter: http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/sep/16rajeev.htm
i wrote it nine years ago, and it remains absolutely correct today. nehru is india's albatross.
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