On the eve of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death anniversary, putting forth my personal impression/assessment of Nehru.
This will somewhat include Nehruvians as well - unavoidable.
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Nehru’s public life has to be divided into 2 large phases.
- The Pre-Independence Phase
- The Post -Independence Phase
For Power, changes the greatest of human beings and a lesser man like Nehru would be no different.
Nevertheless, a set of summary first.
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1. By 1947, there is no doubt that he was among the top 5 popular leaders of India.
There is no proper measure to say who among the lot Nehru, Patel, Savarkar, Bose were more popular than the other.
Definitely, Gandhi was more popular than all of them.
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2. Nehru’s own hard work cannot be ignored. But he did not earn his place as an equal to Patel all by himself.
Between 1919-1929, one does not see any significant footprint of Nehru.
Its the 1929 elevation of JLN aided by MLN that placed JLN alongside Patel.
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3. He did not earn his place as the leader of post independent India democratically.
The 1946 Elections are crystal clear. Any amount of gymnastics by Left Liberals cannot disprove the quiet conflict which was resolved in favour of Nehru undemocratically. Patel didnt protest.
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4. The real damage is not pre-independence but post-independence.
Nehru’s era can be summarised as follows.
- Every single thing he succeeded in was already pioneered elsewhere
- Every single thing he pioneered in turned out to be disaster for the country
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5. Nehru’s Negative Contributions
- Creating a Version of Modernity that institutionalised conflict with ancient Indian past
- Forced Secularizing of future generations of India
- Delaying Economic Growth of India
- Providing State support to Abrahamic Religions Exceptionalism
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- Giving Ab. Religions a clandestine influence on Institutions
- Persecution of Dissent, Weakening of Democracy
- Transforming Congress into a Family Enterprise
- Creating an Elite that culturally persecuted Traditionalists
- Obfuscating uncomfortable aspects of Indian History
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6. Each one of this can be definitely established if not mathematically proven.
Consequently, a significant section of educated India has become needlessly self-hating, culturally apologetic and void of any original thought.
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7. Thus, Bharatavarsha has transformed into an India where the elite, powerful & educated
- Are unable to access its own Civilizational Genius
- Always look upto solutions & thought from the west
- Constantly seek a follower role
- Degenerate themselves in pleasure, comfort
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8. It is not to say that Nehru did all this with vengeance and vile.
His own education, upbringing has been written enough. His Discovery of India is replete with such inferiority - that discovery itself was aided by those who were inimical to the civilization.
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9. He succeeded in transforming a Purushartha seeking Civilization into one seeking
- a separation from its culture
- scientific temper
- progress & development
He took us in a path of modernity that neither delivered material nor harmony.
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10. He aided the formulation of an Idea of India - an Elite making enterprise which constantly sought to demonise the larger culture for their own benefit.
Thus, he led an unassuming but society into conflict ridden future.
Civilizational enemies seized the opportunity.
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11. As we begin the Amrit Kaal, it is necessary to bury this “Idea of India” of Nehru & bring back the true “Idea of India - Bharatavarsha”.
As Vishnu Puranas says what unites Bharatavarsha
- Pursuit of Moksha
- Yagna, Daana, Tapas, Karma, Yuga
- Aided by Rishis & Munis
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That alone is the way for both
- Material Prosperity
- Spiritual Well Being
- Harmony
Its a pity Nehru thought Modern India ought not to be inspired from India’s past.
In the Amrit Kaal, we must set this right.
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Historically, Politically, Symbolically, Culturally - most importantly from the Sacred Energy stand-point this must stand out as a top story of our times.
Much more than a story.
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Firstly, Naman to C Rajagopalachari. His Vision, Civilizational Clarity, Thoughtfulness, use of opportunity saved the day.
He almost played the role of Sage Narada - guiding Prahlada while in the womb of Kayadu.
Thus a Bhakta was born to the Bhayakankara Hiranyakashipu.
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2ndly, I wonder how Nehru even thought of asking Rajaji. Why he didnt ask his favourite guides & voila - a Mughalo-Buddhist Tradition would have been woven.
Saraswatee Devi sat on the tongue of Kumbhakarna & made him ask something totally opposite.
A short thread on the impact of #Avarana novel of SL Bhairappa in Kannada.
Published in the year 2007 it immediately created a huge wave, became a significant turning point in Kannada literature.
Never expected it’s national impact, but over many years, much later - it did.
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To understand this - lets step into the literary history of Karnataka.
1880-1960 - Navodaya (Culturally Rooted)
1960-1980 - Navya (Modern, Western Influence)
1970-2000 - Left Wing, Bandaya & Dalit (The Rebellion)
1 & 2 were literary/cultural. 3 was literary/political.
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Navodaya never died. It continued to flow like River Saraswatee. Its impact on the society was the greatest. It simply did not have as many stalwarts as it did in the 1880-1960 period.
SLB cannot be considered as Navodaya but he took on their legacy in a different direction.
How has Bharatavarsha come to be known for #Diversity? What is the nature of #Tolerance Hindus have? How do we view ‘Other’ #Faiths? Do the Bharateeya societies need to be managed from outside such as ‘Secularism’ so that we dont persecute others?
In order to respond to this, we need to start from the Civilizational fundamental - something that has remained constant throughout in all these centuries across all Bharateeya Communities.
Including the Jaina-s and Bouddha-s.
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‘Purushartha’ is that Civilizational fundamental common across centuries.
- All have rights to fulfil their needs/desires (Artha/Kama - AK)
- Resource limitation leads to AK-Conflicts
- Dharma resolves AK-Conflicts
- Dharma is created & sustained by our pursuit of the Sacred
Recent posts on Twitter on Dr. Vasudeva Sharan Agrawalla has filled me with concern about our engagement with the past.
A Civilization distinguishes itself in
- Thought, Concepts in evolves
- Translating that into material life.
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Thought simply does not accumulate. It flows, evolves, morphs into something else. Every generation passes its Past into the Future in two ways
- Pure Conceptual Unchanging Thought
- How it applied to specific times and how it can flow into the Future
Its a Relay.
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Consequently, engaging with our immediate ancestral generations and their thought is very crucial to how we take things forward in in our times and pass it onto the future.
In this, the world of Kannada is lucky. This continuous flow of Thought is not seriously disturbed.