"Much excess" and "Much scant" are two extreme global and human traits. But Indians seem to excel the global standards, at least in respect of these extremities. We rarely adopt a Middle Path, preached by Gautama Buddha, who tried to give us a different direction. Yesterday, 27th May 2017, was the Death Anniversary of Late Jawaharlal Nehru, the First Prime Minister of Independent India. The State of the Art chic post 2014 May India Administration is to belittle Jawaharlal Nehru and highlight Late Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel, the First Dy. Prime Minister of Independent India. Both of them were associates of Mahatma Gandhi, who, it is generally believed as the one who brought Freedom to India, through his non-violent Satyagraha methods, consisting of Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience. History of India's Freedom Movement was penned by several writers, with some varying emphasis-es and stresses on different Leaders.
As expected, Mr. Narendra Modi, the incumbent Prime Minister of India (from May 2014) has not given much importance to the Death Anniversary of Late Jawaharlal Nehru. As far as I can trace on Internet, this is the only News Item, about our Prime Minister telling something about Late Nehru, on 26th and 27th May 2017. I might have been mistaken. Anyway, here is the link for the tweet:--Click here to go to https://mobile.twitter.com/narendramodi/status/868270091187625984?p=v. Beyond that, he has not visited the Shantivan, the Memorial for Nehru, while the President Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Former Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh, Congress President Ms. Sonia Gandhi visited Shantivan, to pay a ritualistic floral tributes to Late Nehru.
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Tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.
5:58 PM - 26 May 2017
Personal views of ybrao-a-donkey not intended to be imposed on others
I do not wish to find fault with our Hon. Prime Minister. He is a very very busy person. He must, and might, have had his own priorities. At Shri Modi's Twitter handle, the Readers were more outspoken. It may not be wrong to quote a few Comments of Readers, about Shri Modi's Tributes. I am omitting names.:
"...He doesn't deserve any tribute sir.. ..."
Another Reader replying to the above Reader: "...Yea, u r right Godse deserve this...".
"...Seven reasons why Nehru was a bad PM. sify.com/news/seven-rea… ..."
"... He is responsible for illogical partition of India which made me a refugee in my own country, no homage to Jawaharlal Nehru . ..."
"...Comunist. ..." (sic)
"...किसी श्रद्धांजलि की कोई ज़रूरत नहि ह उनको देने की....सारा फ़साद उन्ही की ग़लत नीतियों के कारण हो रहा ..." (Approx. Engl: There is no need of offering any tributes. All the fracas-es are owing to his faulty policies.)
"...यह जिंदा होते तो पता नही अपनी अययासी से कितने घर उजाड़ते मेरी भारत माँ के कितने टुकड़े करते ..." (Approx. Engl. Had he been alive, it is not known, for the sake of his debauchery(ies), how many homes he might have ravaged, and into how many splinters he might have fractured my India...)
"...No "Veer" Savarkar deserves it ...".
RELATED LINK for the VIP visits to the Shantivan
Click here to go to http://www.india.com/news/india/narendra-modi-pranab-mukherjee-sonia-gandhi-pay-tribute-to-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-53rd-death-anniversary-2174274/ . The peculiarity of this web page is, it has a sub-heading titled 'Who was Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru?' !!! !!! No wonder, this heading is very apt, because notwithstanding the publicity given by Nehru dynasty leaders in the past, hundreds / thousands of stadia / structures / Institutions named after Jawaharlal Nehru, Citizens themselves seem to have forgotten Nehru. The Nehru dynasty rulers, particularly Mr. Manmohan Singh and Ms. Sonia Gandhi were more enamoured with commemorating Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi as Saviors and Martyrs of India.Click here to go to http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/news/india/jawaharlal-nehrus-53rd-death-anniversary/sonia-gandhi-pays-tribute/articleshow/58870440.cms
Vocabulary Help
splinter/ˈsplɪntə/ noun: a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or similar material broken off from a larger piece. verb: break or cause to break into small sharp fragments.
yb-donkey continuing
The main problem with understanding / interpreting history (If generalisation is not correct, I shall write 'understanding / interpreting Indian history'), is when a person comes to power, all his merits both human merits, and super human merits, come into fore. The favor-seekers and position-seekers surrounding the person MAGNIFY HIM-HER INTO A LARGER-THAN LIFE-SIZE DEMY GOD, OR GOD-HEAD. The moment he passes away, there will be lot of hagiographies.
But if the person, instead of passing away, loses his-her throne in such a way that there are no chances of his-her getting resurrected back to his-her past glory, the same flatterers start belittling the super-God. All his known and unknown DEMERITS AND DRAWBACKS are highlighted. Purpose: To win recognition and appreciation from the New God, and get hold to some position of power.
Like all of us, the mortals, Jawaharlal Nehru too had his own merits, strengths, and demerits and shortcomings. We cannot get all perfect-individuals. There is nothing like perfect white or perfect black. We are all admixtures of some shade of grey, consisting both of strengths and weaknesses.
Even before Independence, Jawaharal Nehru reached the top of the country, and was the Prime Minister, in pre-Independence Cabinets. Eulogising him by flatterers started even prior to independence.
We cannot say that during his 19 years Administration, Jawaharlal Nehru had not done anything significant for this country. It is also unreasonable to hold him as the culprit responsible for all the problems being faced by this country, owing to myriad reasons.
This is a 1000 page subject.
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