PR Ramesh
In his hometown, Nehru is an outsider who has little relevance beyond the arcana of history
Nehru bided his time and came out trumps. Bose rebelled against the mainstream and found himself as an unsuccessful De Gaulle
What would Nehru have done if he were alive today, amidst the war between modernity and religiosity?
He did a far better job of gaining knowledge of the larger sweep of history than any of his contemporaries. The confidence with which we condemn Nehru exposes the narrowness of our certainties more than it detracts from his achievements
How he juggled with supreme ease the personal and the public
The letters of India’s first Prime Minister to his chief ministers are lessons that are not always socialist in nation building
From his sartorial elegance to linguistic flair to sexual charisma, Nehru was the aesthete-moderniser
The uneasy relationship between the proud Feroze Gandhi and the detached Jawaharlal Nehru
It was in 1953 that Kashmir’s estrangement from the Indian Union began. Blame it on Nehru