PR Ramesh
The Prime Ministers Museum & Library, at a recent meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is president of PMML Society, resolved to initiate legal proceedings to recover the Nehru papers removed by Sonia Gandhi in 2008. PR Ramesh examines the legal and political storm over the private papers of India’s first prime minister and why they remain at the heart of a battle for legacy and control
In his well researched book, scholar and author Uttam Sinha brings out in fascinating detail how senior Cabinet minister N V Gadgil differed with Jawaharlal Nehru over the giving Pakistan too much leeway in sharing river waters after the 1947-48 war. Extracts follow:
VK Krishna Menon’s victory in the 1962 North Bombay election resulted in India’s military defeat later that year. It is a warning for Parliament and government today
Arvind Panagariya lays out the limitations of Nehru’s economic project and its impact today
Wealth-shaming is coming to an end as more Indians become prosperous on Modi’s watch