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What a stunning find this is. Nehru’s sense of history and Indian civilization as scant as his knowledge of foreign policy and India’s place in the world. No wonder Himalayan blunders are aptly knows as Nehruvuian Blunders. An intellectual dwarf who ‘discovered’ India indeed!
If Motilal Nehru was not as deracinated as he was, maybe young Jawahar would have heard same Shiva strotras being sung in his family as priests in Chidambaram Nataraja temple do. He would have known why a man in Coimbatore turns north to pray to Mother Sarsawati.
And these men and women were in charge of telling us who we are and where we come from and where we are supposed to go.
When I see and read all this, I am amazed at what a great man Adi guru Shankara was. Not just a spiritual giant which he surely was l, but also a sharp political mind.
Adi Guru understood why India from Himalayas in North and Oceans in south must remain one. He created institutions that would enable and facilitate this. Compare that to secular leaders of today!
