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 News 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 Jesus Christ.