Will we learn from our history or it will be limited to textbooks only?
Any one who knows a bit of post independence Indian history and has given it a thought to it will agree to a point that Sardar Vallabh-bhai Patel should have been preferred to Jawaharlal Nehru for the first prime minister of India (Don't mean to say that Chacha Nehru was incapable, but only the best should be doing the job). If Sardar had been PM, one significant change that would have been for sure, is that we would have never known any region like PoK. Rather, there was every possibility of having IoP*. This was one faux pas which is still haunting us, 60 years after, and will probably do so for ages. The point is that we have been longing for such an aggressive PM since then. We got Indira Gandhi, but she inherited her father's socialist ideology and helped sabotaging Indian economy even more by undoing the process of liberalisation, which Lal Bahadur Shastri had initiated one month before he died in Tashkent.
The point i made about learning from history is because we do have one man in India now, popularly known as NaMo in his native... Narendra Modi. Well, he has been marred with the controversies (Post-Godhra incident riots) . But who has not been!?, even senior leaders of present Government were involved in 1984 sikh riots (the only reason why they are let-off is because of lack of media reach in 1984). But, the development in Gujarat is Astonishing, to say least. Whether it be infrastructure or education, whether it be reduction in corruption or improvement in over-all administration.. Gujarat has been awesome! and all this in span of mere 5 years!
so will we acknowledge Narendra Modi and much needed aggression that he cultivates, and work towards making him a country's head or will we allow another iron man to melt down and fade away!?
*IoP - Indian Occupied Pakistan ;-)
Any one who knows a bit of post independence Indian history and has given it a thought to it will agree to a point that Sardar Vallabh-bhai Patel should have been preferred to Jawaharlal Nehru for the first prime minister of India (Don't mean to say that Chacha Nehru was incapable, but only the best should be doing the job). If Sardar had been PM, one significant change that would have been for sure, is that we would have never known any region like PoK. Rather, there was every possibility of having IoP*. This was one faux pas which is still haunting us, 60 years after, and will probably do so for ages. The point is that we have been longing for such an aggressive PM since then. We got Indira Gandhi, but she inherited her father's socialist ideology and helped sabotaging Indian economy even more by undoing the process of liberalisation, which Lal Bahadur Shastri had initiated one month before he died in Tashkent.
The point i made about learning from history is because we do have one man in India now, popularly known as NaMo in his native... Narendra Modi. Well, he has been marred with the controversies (Post-Godhra incident riots) . But who has not been!?, even senior leaders of present Government were involved in 1984 sikh riots (the only reason why they are let-off is because of lack of media reach in 1984). But, the development in Gujarat is Astonishing, to say least. Whether it be infrastructure or education, whether it be reduction in corruption or improvement in over-all administration.. Gujarat has been awesome! and all this in span of mere 5 years!
so will we acknowledge Narendra Modi and much needed aggression that he cultivates, and work towards making him a country's head or will we allow another iron man to melt down and fade away!?
*IoP - Indian Occupied Pakistan ;-)
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