Aakar Patel | Nehru a model of modernity… Why his vision & legacy endures
Published Jan 19, 2021, 6:49 am IST
Updated Jan 19, 2021, 6:49 am IST
The problem is that nobody in the world of Hindutva has any vision good, bad or indifferent when compared to Nehru
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I was being interviewed for my book and was asked a question unrelated to it Why does Hindutva hate Jawaharlal Nehru so much? It is an interesting question and has two parts to the answer. To know it, we must first understand what Nehru was and what he wanted.
Before Independence, Nehru wrote a series of works through which he aligned himself to India as a civilisational entity of the sort that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh also approves of. He traces the modern nation to its origins in the Indus Valley Civilisation (discovered only a few years before he wrote Glimpses of World History and only 15 or so years before he wrote The Discovery of India) to the periods of the first and second millennia after
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On a warm November afternoon in 2020, Shareena Banu picked up a call from a colleague who wanted to know if any of her students needed a free laptop. Banu, an assistant professor at the sociology department of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi had several options among her undergraduate students, many of whom come from low income families across the country. I suggested the name of one of my undergraduate students, who received an old laptop from an NGO the next day, says Banu, who obtained her doctorate in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University over a decade ago. He was the lucky one. There were many more in my class who would have wanted to get their first computer, she adds.
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