It is perhaps the fate of all great democratic statesmen that in the shadow of their achievement it is also possible to draw an indictment against them. This is true of Lincoln and Roosevelt, as it is of Nehru.
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“We regret to inform you that we hire only non-Muslim candidates,” a human resources executive at a Mumbai-based firm wrote last week to a stunned job applicant, Zeeshan Ali Khan.
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The border dispute with China is so old but Indians are yet to come to grips with how this dispute can be resolved. The historical roots of the Sino-Indian frontiers have been narrated in several accounts.
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Vanity is at once discouraged and encouraged in women.
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The 17-year span, from 1947 to 1964, of Jawaharlal Nehru’s premiership, took this writer from being an 11-year-old schoolboy to age 28.
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Some artistes generate admiration and acquire cult followings. Others generate love and turn their fans into lovers. The former often messianic in tendency, speak in certitudes.
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Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy as a prime minister is often tarnished by two issues — Kashmir and the China debacle. In recent years, revisionist versions of history have tried to portray that Nehru failed in both these ventures because he devalued the military.
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