Thread by @tathagata2

@Ram_Guha @htTweets When we achieved independence in 1947 India had been untouched by the war,had an industrial base,a small but solid professional and intellectual class,a manageable population,forex reserves in the form of its sterling balance and a very good infrastructure in its Railway system

@Ram_Guha @htTweets As opposed to that Germany,Japan,Malaysia,Singapore,Taiwan were devastated. South Korea remained so even till 1953. At that stage we should have spent our money in eradicating illiteracy,controlling population,enlarging infrastructure and encouraging private industry.

@Ram_Guha @htTweets Instead of that our Jackass Jawaharlal spent the money in blindly aping the Stalinist model of USSR and creating public sector white elephants. One visit to the Heavy Engineering Corporation at Ranchi (just to name one) is enough to convince anyone of the enormity of this waste.

@Ram_Guha @htTweets He also was more interested to position himself as an international busybody rather than India’s Prime Minister. Thus he acquiesced in the Chinese annexation of Tibet,stopped the Indian Army in its tracks when they were in hot pursuit of the Pakistani irregulars,

@Ram_Guha @htTweets internationalized the Kashmir dispute and lobbied for a seat for Communist China in the UN,and refused when India was offered a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. A little known fact is,he consigned the 29% Hindus of erstwhile East Pakistan to the mercy of the Muslim

@Ram_Guha @htTweets majority and thus to near-holocaust by signing a stupid Nehru-Liaquat pact in April 1950. Durga Das,the eminent journalist and Benoy Mukhopadhyay (known by his pen-name ‘Jajabor’ in Bengal),Nehru’s press advisor,have both said he used to live in a world of make-believe and

@Ram_Guha @htTweets refused to accept reality when it was in conflict with his pet beliefs. His foreign policy gaffes were all results of this bizarre mindset of his. May God will that such a disaster like Jawaharlal Nehru does not befall our country India ever again