MORE COVERAGE
"It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered": Nehru shouted, 'Total rubbish! We don’t need a defence plan. Our policy is ahimsa. We foresee no military threats. Scrap Army! Police are good enough for security’
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
The seeds of India's disgraceful debacle in the 1962 India-China War were sown soon after Independence by none other than Nehru himself
"When a mind is stubborn, it has little room for real wisdom and knowledge": India-China war - Mao commented on Nehru’s Forward Policy with one of his epigrams, ‘A person sleeping in a comfortable bed is not easily aroused by someone else’s snoring’
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru himself admitted, “We were getting out of touch with reality in the modern world and we were living in an artificial atmosphere of our creation"
"Instead of leader he acted as a politician and made blunders with the theory of probability": Nehru's flawed attitudes towards Communist China and Tibet, the unsettled border in both Aksai Chin & MacMahon line, his 'rigid line' finally led to 1962 war
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
India avoided raising the border issue with China following Nehru’s decision—even when Panchsheel was signed in 1954,
"It's hard for the same people who put you in the ditch to pull you out of it": Nehru's Panchsheel blunder was born in sin to put the seal of approval upon the destruction of an ancient nation which was associated with India spiritually and culturally
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr Ambedkar disagreed with the Tibet policy of India and felt that
“there is no room for Panchsheel in politics”.
"The worst decision is indecision": Both, his action and his inaction led to disastrous consequences for India, Nehru’s strategy was India’s & Tibet’s tragedy, during his last days in 1964, he said: “I have been betrayed by a friend. I am sorry for Tibet"
| Satyaagrah | Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru allowed Tibet, our peaceful neighbor and a buffer between us and China, to be erased as a nation, without even recording a protest in the UN
"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes": Savarkar, a writer, trendsetter – man of many firsts, such as being the one to write 1857 Freedom Struggle that irked British into banning it even before its publication, whom Indira Gandhi worshipped
| Satyaagrah | Diary
Savarkar was the one who envisioned the idea of complete freedom and liberation from the chains of British slavery
"Spices, Christianity, and Extreme violence": 1498 Vasco da Gama anchored his ships in Calicut on Malabar Coast of India, a haven of peaceful trade, to only two years later slaughter, destroying houses and killing inhabitants, Portuguese terror started
| Satyaagrah | Diary
We took a ship from Mecca in which were 380 men and many women and children, and we took from it fully 12,000 ducats, with goods worth at least another 10,000. And we burned the ship and all the people on board with gunpowder. – A Portuguese companion of Vasco da Gama, 1502
‘Safety Valve Theory’: Purpose of founding Indian National Congress was to provide a safety valve to Indian nationalists to vent their frustration to avoid another situation like revolt of 1857
| Satyaagrah | Diary
Pakistan became a realty not so much by the efforts of Jinnah or the Muslim League as by the machinations of the British, particularly Churchill and other like-minded politicians to protect their oil interests in the Middle-East
‘The Koh-i- Noor’ or “Two and half days’ food of the entire world” as valued by Mughal Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur is one Gem in a history that is not known to have ever been bought or sold, it always changed hands as a result of conquest
| Satyaagrah | Diary
According to Rani Sircar, the Kon-i-Noor, the Daryanoor and Timur’s Ruby were exhibited at the Great Exhibition held in London and in 1851 A.D. Timur’s Ruby was subsequently presented with other jewellery to Queen Victoria by the East India Company
Kesarbai Kerkar, Indian voice that made it to NASA Voyager mission - On board the spacecraft was gold-plated copper disc with musical compositions, ranging from Beethoven to Bach to Mozart, carefully selected to reflect global cultural diversity
| Satyaagrah | Diary
Kesarbai Kerkar insisted on removing microphones, loudspeakers from the stage. If something annoyed her, she would cancel the recital midway