Mainstream Weekly

Splendid Partnership

A.K. Damodaran — 2011-11-12T19:45:32Z

Of the many achievements of Jawaharlal Nehru as a national leader, world statesman and a sensitive individual who had the rare oppor-tunity of shaping the destinies of a whole nation and, at the same time, possessed the gift for standing back and eyeing with some detachment his own strengths and weaknesses, and also commenting upon them in an anxiously honest fashion, the institutional aspects are the most impressive.
In spite of the many popular taunts and repeated gibes, Jawaharlal (…)

- 2011

A Splendid Partnership

A.K. Damodaran — 2009-11-17T13:23:32Z

Of the many achievements of Jawaharlal Nehru as a national leader, world statesman and a sensitive individual who had the rare opportunity of shaping the destinies of a whole nation and, at the same time, possessed the gift for standing back and eyeing with some detachment his own strengths and weaknesses, and also commenting upon them in an anxiously honest fashion, the institutional aspects are the most impressive. In spite of the many popular taunts and repeated gibes, Jawaharlal was no (…)

- November 2009

Jawaharlal Nehru and World Order

A.K. Damodaran — 2007-11-25T18:27:51Z

It is now more than two decades since Jawaharlal Nehru passed away. For more than forty years he had been a major figure in the Indian national movement. For the first two decades he had been a loyal lieutenant of Mahatma Gandhi, disciplining himself to conform to the priorities of the national struggle, as defined by Gandhi, in spite of his skepticism about some of the methods adopted by his leader and some of the aims which appeared to him to be not so important.
In doing so, Nehru had (…)

- November 17, 2007