Comments by "M Shastri" (@libshastra) on "ITN Archive" channel.

  1. WTH, there are limits to blindly praising someone. End of Zamindars, land reforms, linguistic states was not a result of Nehru. Heck he was very reluctant against those reforms. All of those reforms came as a result of grassroot movements. He ruined the IAS (ICS) with his diktats and rampant nationalization after 1955. He was the founder of IIT, AIIMS and IIM. However, Nehru was already dead when ISRO was founded (1969, Nehru died in 1962). He cracked down on Freedom of Speech, he whipped his party to pass Article 19(a). Incidentally, the BJP's spiritual founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Ambedkar were staunchy against it. Election Commission was not his brainchild, it was a combined genuises of the Constituent Assembly. All the Liberal values you claim to cherish, was a result of Ambedkar - Nehru was against the passage of Hindu Code Bill (which itself was a compromise from UCC).
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  2. 1957, Nehru nationalized half of the Economy. Farm output was tanking. He successfully passed Article 19(a) a couple of years ago. Patel was dead and this guy was flying around giving interviews. The comments are jaded and misinformed. Nehru had his good moments but he was quite a disaster for a PM. A lot of India's current problems can be directly or indirectly attributed to his poor choices. He started the povertarian shift of India's economy which unironically was completed by his Daughter Indira Gandhi, a decade later.
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