Ullekh NP and Amita Shah
Nehru’s fans and foes come face to face over who would uphold his ideals on an unlikely turf: his official residence as prime minister
Let Narendra Modi too bring Nehru and Patel together in his vision for India
Nehru and Patel didn’t fight. They worked as a team from Independence to Patel’s death in 1950, with Nehru as the leader.However, these two towering personalities were never similar. Their approaches were divergent. In time, they would probably have parted ways. That parting didn’t happen
A past powered by the Dissenting Strongman and the Dreamy Intellectual enriches the legacy of freedom—and the political content of the present