in jawaharlal's defense, the guy was more foolish than malicious. and he was not actually a paid agent, at least not intentionally: he was not that interested in money, having had a rich father. this is more than can be said of others we could name.
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From: P
Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:59 PM
Subject: Nehru's contempt for Indians
To: rajeev.srinivasan@gmail.com
Hi Rajeev,
Koenraad Elst mentions this incident from Nehru's students days in England:
"There being no vacancies at Eton, in 1905 he (Motilal Nehru) packed 15-year-old Jawaharlal off to Harrow, determined that the boy grow up a proper English gentleman. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams; and years later, at Cambridge, Jawaharlal wrote his father asking permission to transfer to Oxford: 'Cambridge is becoming too full of Indians.'"
So, Nehru despised Indians from a young age. This reflected in his later years, when he had nothing but contempt for India's native religions, culture and economic systems.
Wonder what CONgresspersons would like to say about this tidbit from the life of our first Prime Minister who built modern india!!
In the same article, Sita Ram Goel is quoted as saying:
"One has to read Nehru's writings and speeches, and evaluate his policies from a Hindu point of view, to realize that, so far as Hindus and Hinduism are concerned, he was a combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies--Islam, Christianity, White Man's Burden and communism--that have flooded this country in the wake of foreign invasions or interventions."
So Nehru epitomized not one or two, but all the alien ideologies that had colonized India. I guess this is why, these foreign creeds have had a free run in India's polity since Independence.
Thus even after 60 years, Hindus have been unable to get a space for their voice in the political space, and continue to bear the combined onslaught of these bugbears.
In the rest of the article, Elst discusses how the meanings of commonly used words have been systematically perverted by India watchers.
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3087
Regards,
From: P
Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:59 PM
Subject: Nehru's contempt for Indians
To: rajeev.srinivasan@gmail.com
Hi Rajeev,
Koenraad Elst mentions this incident from Nehru's students days in England:
"There being no vacancies at Eton, in 1905 he (Motilal Nehru) packed 15-year-old Jawaharlal off to Harrow, determined that the boy grow up a proper English gentleman. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams; and years later, at Cambridge, Jawaharlal wrote his father asking permission to transfer to Oxford: 'Cambridge is becoming too full of Indians.'"
So, Nehru despised Indians from a young age. This reflected in his later years, when he had nothing but contempt for India's native religions, culture and economic systems.
Wonder what CONgresspersons would like to say about this tidbit from the life of our first Prime Minister who built modern india!!
In the same article, Sita Ram Goel is quoted as saying:
"One has to read Nehru's writings and speeches, and evaluate his policies from a Hindu point of view, to realize that, so far as Hindus and Hinduism are concerned, he was a combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies--Islam, Christianity, White Man's Burden and communism--that have flooded this country in the wake of foreign invasions or interventions."
So Nehru epitomized not one or two, but all the alien ideologies that had colonized India. I guess this is why, these foreign creeds have had a free run in India's polity since Independence.
Thus even after 60 years, Hindus have been unable to get a space for their voice in the political space, and continue to bear the combined onslaught of these bugbears.
In the rest of the article, Elst discusses how the meanings of commonly used words have been systematically perverted by India watchers.
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3087
Regards,
Piyush
1 comment:
A well known quote is:
Nehru was a English by education, Muslim by culture and a Hindu by mistake!
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