Tag: Jawaharlal Nehru
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West Asia: Would Nehru, Vajpayee have remained silent on umpteenth attack?
As I mentioned at the outset, the attack on Syria, should it happen, will be the umpteenth US-led military action against a Muslim country since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I…
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Why India lost the 1962 border war?
The defeat in the 1962 India-China war made then PM Jawaharlal Nehru realise that there is indeed no place for weak nations in world politics.
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India’s role in the Muslim World: A Foreign Policy challenge
In the fictitious script Hillary Clinton says India has no clout in the region. Possibly true. But how did Nehru and Indira Gandhi have influence in the area.
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Change text books to charm Dalit vote bank
The surprise is not at Dalit unease, but at UPA stalwarts vying with each other to drop cartoons from NCERT text books. This is attributable to one fact: a state of funk…
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Rare photos of Nehru’s US visit
Photograph of President Truman shaking hands with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India upon Nehru’s arrival at Washington National Airport, while Indira Gandhi disembarks from the President’s airplane, “The Independence”.
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Sardar Patel’s letter to Nehru on Tibet
There are different views on the Indian policy towards China and the Tibet issue. I will write more on that some other day. I have reproduced here the letter written by then…