Four Nehru things out of Plenty which you are not aware…
1 Pandit Nehru has always nursed the Communist Party of India with the fondness of an old woman who gave birth to her first and only child at an advanced age – Sita Ram Goel.
2 In September 1948, Nehru went to London
to attend a Commonwealth conference. On his return, he wrote to Patel that “even Lady Mountbatten was worried about” and “Members of the Parliament spoke about” Patel’s crackdown on communist leaders. In the same letter, he pointed out to Sardar that regarding RSS there was
‘”a widespread impression in England that they are Fascist communal-minded people”. So at this juncture removing the ban on RSS, he wrote to Patel, would make an impression that Indian state was encouraging “certain Fascist elements in India”.
Except Edwina, Nehru never gave
the name of any of the “Members of Parliament” who complained about the crackdown of communist leaders or those who expressed concern about the RSS.
When in London, Edwina had told Nehru “about a proposal to hold a Conference in Calcutta under the auspices of the Women’s
International Democratic Federation”. When the matter was referred to the Home Ministry, H V R Iyengar, secretary of the ministry, prepared a long note on the nature of this federation and the consequences that would follow if the conference was allowed. Nehru forwarded the
note to Edwina Mountbatten along with a long letter dated 11 November 1948, expressing his own helplessness.
In this letter written by PM of India to Edwina in an apologetic tone, he reminded her how on previous occasions like during ‘South East Asia Students’ Conference’ he
had bravely withstood the objections and conducted it. But now he was helpless. He then pleaded with her reasserting his love for communism, “You know that I have had strong leanings towards Communism and have many friends among Communists.“
3 When Indian embassy was opened at
the Soviet Union and Nehru’s home tutored sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit was made it’s first ambassador, the Soviets did not even bother to supply furniture to the embassy and her repeated requests to get an audience with Stalin were ignored.
Ultimately, India had to get the
furniture for its embassy in Moscow from Stockholm, incurring heavy expenditure. Questions regarding this humiliation & wasteful expenditure imposed on the Indian embassy by the Soviets were raised in the Parliament.
“How a house has to be furnished in Moscow, of course,
honourable members do not realise,” said Nehru, the internationalist, pointing out that it would be heavily expensive to airlift furniture from India. Alternatively, the Soviet Union itself could provide the furniture but right now Soviet people “are building dams, reservoirs
and factories and the rest which they consider important”. So it is not easy to get these “small accessories of life”. Of course, czarist furniture is available but they are expensive. So we need to buy even tables and chairs for the embassy from Stockholm.
4 Nehru adored Stalin. In 1953, when Stalin died Nehru passed a resolution in the Indian Parliament to mourn the death of the most cruel mass murderer in the history of humanity. He called Stalin as one who was “more than the head of the State” and as “a man who favoured peace”
and described his own generation of Indians as “children of his age”.
5 Russia is a large country and India is a large country. Therefore, Russia=India. Next, Russia is a large agricultural country and India is a large agricultural country. Therefore, Russia=India.
Russia has large peasant population which was poor. India also has a large peasant population which is still poor. To solve this poverty problem, India must take inspiration from the Communist Revolution. Like I said, you can never go wrong with this kind of “reasoning.”
If it looks like an 8th class student’s writing, you are wrong.. It was written in Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches And Impressionsby Nehru when he was 38.
Nehru – A deeply flawed individual who unfortunately also was India’s first and longest reigning prime minister.
He was no intellectual romanticist but a power-hungry leader who was willingly afflicted by Marxist virus. He could project himself as a democratic person through the choicest of the words though he did everything to subvert democracy in India. #NeechNehru #VANDEMATARAM
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“On January 13, 1948, I learnt that Gandhiji had decided to go on fast unto death. The reason given was that he wanted an assurance of
Hindu-Muslim Unity… But I and many others could easily see that the real motive was to compel the Dominion Govt to pay the sum of Rs 55 crores to Pakistan, the payment of which was emphatically refused by the Govt…. But this decision of the people’s Govt was reversed to suit
the tune of Gandhiji’s fast. It was evident to my mind that the force of public opinion was nothing but a trifle when compared with the leanings of Gandhiji favourable to Pakistan.
In 1946 or thereabout, Muslim atrocities perpetrated on Hindus under the Govt patronage of
ಚಿತ್ರ: ಬಿಳಿಗಿರಿಯ ಬನದಲ್ಲಿ
ಸಂಗೀತ: ರಾಜನ್ ನಾಗೇಂದ್ರ
ರಚನೆ: ಚಿ ಉದಯಶಂಕರ್
ಗಾಯನ: ಎಸ್. ಜಾನಕಿ, ಎಸ್. ಪಿ. ಬಿ.
ತಾರೆಯು ಬಾನಿಗೆ
ತಾವರೆ ನೀರಿಗೆ
ತಾರೆಯು ಬಾನಿಗೆ
ತಾವರೆ ನೀರಿಗೆ
ಹೂವೆಲ್ಲ ವನದೇವಿ ಮುಡಿಗೆ
ನೀ ನನ್ನ ಬಾಳಿಗೆ
ಆಹಾ ಮುತ್ತೆಲ್ಲ ಕಡಲಲ್ಲಿ
ಬಂಗಾರ ನೆಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವಂತೆ
ನೀ... ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಕಣ್ಣಲ್ಲಿ ಮನದಲ್ಲಿ
Killing Sadhus and Sanyasis in front of Parliament.
It happened on this day in 1966, under the watchful eyes of Indira.
On November 7, 1966, a large group of people approximately numbered at 100,000 assembled at an open space near the Parliamentary complex. Led by a group of
ash-smeared, trishul-brandishing Naga Sadhus, the group had a single demand — a countrywide ban on cow slaughter. The gathering was anything but a surprise. Hindu organisations had been planning this moment for the last two years. But the magnitude of it caught most, especially
the government, off guard. By noon the leaders were extolling the virtues of the ‘mother cow’, and soon moved towards the main gates of Parliament and at that moment, Indira Gandhi ordered her forces to start killing the Sadhus.
The demand for a ban on cow slaughter had come up
Born on 7th November 1884 at Wardha, Maharashtra, was
inspired by Bala Gangadhar Tilak in joining freedom struggle.
In 1900s he went for United States for higher education and joined Washington University and in
1908, along with Pandit Kanshiram at Oregon he founded Indian Independence League.
Few years down the line, little
before World war 1, Khankoje met Taraknath Das, Lala Hardayal and this meeting lead them to start “Pacific Coast Hindustan Association” and eventually this association became Gadar_Party.
The WW1 saw him actively participating in IndoGerman Conspiracy propagating Gadar
#ForgottenHeroes #Deshbandu
At one time, his clothes were tailored and washed in Paris and he maintained a permanent laundry in Paris to ship his clothes to Calcutta. He sacrificed all this luxury when he became attached to the Freedom Movement.
For long, it was said that MKG
propagated the idea of Village Development and Cottage Industries...but the truth?
It was 1917 and in the Calcutta session, #DeshbandhuChittaranjanDas, put forward a plan for village reconstruction, which was to entail steps such as establishment of local self-government,
co-operative credit societies as well as re-starting the cottage industry.
Das was born on 5 November 1870 in Calcutta, completed his graduation from Presidency College in 1890. The same year, he went to England to qualify for the ICS, which was dominated by the British.