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Nihil
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In my opinion we never supported Russia on any wars
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Avunaa ??

1...Soviet- afghanisthan war lo soviet- backed afghan govt ni recognise chesina oke oka south asian country - India ....... no other country recognised it .

2...Vietnam war lo Vietcong ( Armed by Russia ) ki India jai kottindi.

3...Cuban missile crisis, Bay of pigs invasion( Kennedy time lo ) appudu India supported Russia( Khrushchev) to the hilt

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Veetini emantaru Cylone subbarao garu ?? The last time i checked they were called Wars in history textbooks, donno whether they have been recently revised.


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Nihil:

Then why in the hell he licked the boots of Russia ??


In my opinion we never supported Russia on any wars.... partnership was to get some technical know how from Russia and also to counter America's help (arm) to Pakistan we got from Russia.

Indian Foreign policy gurinchi and the reasons for shift in policy gurinchi ekkado mana P.V gaaru cheppina enno manchi maatalu sadivaanu... I'm not able to trace it.
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And another historical fact also put a dent on your claim that US is against India ,so it went to Russia.

Apart from the NAM sham which was put up by Nehru.... why did he refuse the help of USA to support Indias army in 1959 uprising of Tibet when it was occupied by China ??

USA india ki against ayithe military support enduku istahnu ani cheppindi ??


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Idantha anavasaram - just one simple and straightforward question& that will sort out whats what


Nehru started NAM ( Non-aligned movement )- ante equal distance from Russia and America in foreign relations.

Then why in the hell he licked the boots of Russia ??

Simple question - answer telisthe cheppandi, lepothe lite teeskondi.


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Brother... even before to the war... America slowly changed the stance... Pakistan war eppudu ayyindi? And check the times line in the link I sent and when US started providing arms to Pakistan... that will give you some idea.
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Cylone subbarao
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Check this - very extensive information on Indo-US bilateral relations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-American_relations

During the Cold War, the US asked for Pakistan’s help because India was seen to lean towards the Soviet Union. Later, when India disagreed to support the anti-Soviet operation in Afghanistan, it was left with few allies

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Elcaminocapastrino:

I donno how far there is truth in that blog u quoted




I think that is right. If you have watched Gandhi movie

Nihil:

Jews should offer themselves to Nazis




Babai, this is true. If you watch the movie Gandhi. Even in that movie, he tells that to the reporter of life magazine when she asks -- "do you think non-violience work on someone line Hitler..". He clearly say ...not without initial hiccups but it will succeed.
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Nihil:

Meeru ichina link lo USA India ki against ayindi kabatti India russia tho align ayindi ani ekkada vundi ??


Already aa post lo ne cheppanu kadha brother... USA ki India to strain ayyina year undi... and Russia tho relations gurinchi malli post chesthaanu ani cheppanu kadha.

Ee roju full hectic undi work... but will try to find something on relations with Russia also.
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Cylone subbarao
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Meeru ichina link lo USA India ki against ayindi kabatti India russia tho align ayindi ani ekkada vundi ??

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.An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind....
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Oho.... This is the Gandhian principle aa ?? mari ee vishyam lo ela appaly avutundo cheppandi .

why did he send our soldiers to the second world war ??? Is it not a war?? or eye for an eye ????

Evado war start chesadu which we have nothing to do for ....then why should we give our eye to take the axis power eye ??

20,000 Indian soldiers chanipoyaru aa war lo .. all over the europe, North africa, Mid-east lo Indian soldier memorials vunnayi.


Under which principle this falls under ?? Eye for eye kadaa ???

Please explain.

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Nihil:


Brother... check this link for US-Indo relations... eppudu nunchi change ayyindo kontha undi... I will try to find India's alignment with USSR also.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=278513&sid=NAT&ssid=
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Nihil:

Ippudu link tho problem aa ....Poni le Louis Fisher ani okayana Gandhi auto biography rasadu - aayanatho direct interview lone cheppadu - Jews should offer themselves to Nazis, thats heroism ani- cursory google chesina ee vishayam telustundi.



he believed in a principle....An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.....
its foolish anukundham....but whole world realized it.....whole country was behind it....country of intellectuals....lawyers....everyone....
its very very difficult to implement.....not an easy task....sometimes its his own folks and sometimes himself....and sometimes people like you and me constantly judging him why u did like this ...u would have done like dat....
he didnt flinch....lived for it till the end of his life became a role model for other revolutionists like nelson mandela and martin louther king....
Just because a blog said so or a by twisting his words is not going to change peoples perspective on himmmm.........
I dont believe propoganda in blogs....if gandhi really said jews to offer themselves then I would like to know why??? rather than going after him.....
will give him benefit of doubt....if there is any one person who deserves that privilege in modern world is gandhi....
Iam out of this disco....
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Oho - 200 yr ruthless ga loot chesi destroy chesina colonial power tho chethu kalipi war chesina vadu mahatmudu ??

Vallaki against ga poratam chesi, self-sacrifice chesina Bose pulihara gadu ?

Poni enduku manollani pampadu rationale enti ante ?? Jews should offer themselves to Nazis ani statement ??

Ippudu link tho problem aa ....Poni le Louis Fisher ani okayana Gandhi auto biography rasadu - aayanatho direct interview lone cheppadu - Jews should offer themselves to Nazis, thats heroism ani- cursory google chesina ee vishayam telustundi.


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Nihil:

Gandhi saved millions of people by sending our soldiers aa ??



dude did I ever mentioned gandhi saved millions of lives???...I said he did the right thing sending army to second world war ...the war which saved millions of lives....
I donno how far there is truth in that blog u quoted....its full of weird people even commenting on martin luther king
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Elcaminocapastrino,
IG was a communication minister during nehru tenure. isnt it?
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Chiru_fan:

aa naakoduku mana desam meeda ruddina daridram Indira



indhiramma ni ruddhindhi chacha kaadhu mama
congi folks.....they forced her to become PM...even she was not interested
once she got power she showed her true face.....
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soldiers fought for a cause and fought on the right side of the battle...
a battle which eventually saved millions of lives and reinstated the faith people can have on each other....
Gandhi Nehru did a right job if at all they were responsible for sending the army to second world war....hats off to them........
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LOL .......This is the biggest speil i have ever heard.

Gandhi saved millions of people by sending our soldiers aa ??

Check this link which is well mentioned in history textbooks.. and please try to answer if u can

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004247.html

During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,†he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.â€


Mari evarni save chestunnadu baboo Gandhi ?? when he himself blared this non-sense.


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Telugu_times:

nenu Nehru ni emi analedhu. Navvi oorkunna. anadam kooda waste.



its all retrospective now....how it could have been...will have been....
this much of bitterness on chacha is unwarranted
a freedon fighter....modern architect of india chacha nehru rocks
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Nehru gurinchi yemo kaani....aa naakoduku mana desam meeda ruddina daridram Indira...ee mund&a mana deshanni oka 100 years vennakki nettindi...power ni ee type loo misuse cheyyocchu ani mana bhaavi politician luccha gallaki oka aadarsham gaa nilichindi...she is one the of main reason for India's sufferring..
Mera puranaa naam...Idlebrain_fan
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chacha nehru ni annesi maatalu antaniki norelaa vacchindhi baba neeku >>>

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nenu Nehru ni emi analedhu. Navvi oorkunna. anadam kooda waste.
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Cylonesubbarao:

Almost same time India and Pakistan have got independence.... how is Pakistan now... compared to India?

India emi suffer avutundi brother.... janalu chedagodutunte... dhaanni vere vaalla meedaki nettadam entha varaku nyayam. List out Nehru's deed that cause India to suffer. (but first list those sufferings)




I dont hate nehru and I'm not BJP supporter.But I think he made some mistakes reagrding forign policies and he was very power hugry person and he should have quit as PM in late 50s

Please read below article from rediff

http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/10inter2.htm

Forty years ago, India's first prime minister passed into the ages.

To mark his 40th death anniversary, rediff.com has launched a special series to evaluate Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy.

Earlier in this series:
Brahma Chellaney: India, the lamb state
Lt Gen Eric A Vas: Truly, an extraordinary fellow

Today, Professor Judith M Brown, author of the recent biography, Nehru: A Political Life, shares her insights in a candid e-mail interview with Deputy Managing Editor Amberish K Diwanji.

Brown is Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at Balliol College, Oxford. According to the Oxford University web site, Professor Brown's main interests are 19th and 20th century Indian history and politics, South Asian migration, modern Hinduism, and gender and imperialism. Among her books are Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope and Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy.

What got you interested in Nehru?

I first got interested in Nehru through my earlier work on Gandhi. The relationship between the two was clearly vital to them both and to the nationalist movement. Then, with a view to the upcoming 40th anniversary of Nehru's death, Yale University Press asked me if I would write a biographical study, which would be more than a biography and would discuss him in the context of his times and his contribution to those times.

On a personal level Nehru is fascinating to someone from a British background because he moved so easily between the worlds of India and Britain at a time when comparatively few Indians did so.

In India, Nehru's legacy is seen in black or white, rarely gray. How do you assess his legacy?

I think legacy is the wrong word as it suggests handing on goods to a succeeding generation. I prefer to think of Nehru as someone who helped to ensure the deep rooting of fundamental values in the Indian polity, and who tried to work out ways in which these could be expressed. Each generation has to do that working out in its own context rather than 'inheriting' things, institutions etc.

What, in your opinion, is his single greatest positive influence? And his single greatest failure?

His most positive influence and what he valued most of all was the attempted construction of a plural, open, and democratic polity working for change in the lives of all citizens. He used to speak of India as a composite nation, and of the ground-breaking experiment of trying to achieve socio-economic change by democratic processes and consent in contrast to state-directed revolution with its risk of profound violence.

I think his greatest failure in the domestic sphere was the failure to make mass education a priority.

You have written that Nehru appeared insensitive to the concerns and fears of the Hindus. What should he have done differently? Was this the beginning of the rise of the Hindu right?

There was always a Hindu strand in the politics of the Congress going back to the 1920s or even earlier. So Nehru did not 'cause' this tendency. I think he found it very difficult to talk in the language of people who were attracted to this tendency and so failed to engaged with them meaningfully -- as perhaps Gandhi and Patel did in very different ways. But you must remember that he endured the horrors of Partition and was convinced that India must prioritise the establishment of a polity in which sizeable minorities were safe and made welcome citizens: otherwise India would be no different in essence from the new Pakistan.

Why is Nehru hated so much nowadays by so many Indians? The Hindu right is particularly anti-Nehru, blaming him for the Kashmir problem, and for stifling the economy.

I think the Hindu right hate his idea of a 'composite nation' rather than a nation rooted in Hinduism -- and Kashmir is symptomatic of this.

On the economic front they, like many others, think unhistorically. They blame him for the burden of the 'licence-permit raj', forgetting that in the early 1950s the great challenge of economic development was intimately linked to genuine political independence and Nehru's generation felt (as did all their contemporaries worldwide) that State intervention was the only way to get stuck into major economic development -- witness Britain's post-war economic reconstruction as well as Communist patterns of development. You could argue that the problems lay in the late 1960s and 1970s when the groundwork had been laid for development and the State could have stood back.

What pushed Nehru so strongly towards the licence-permit raj and Socialist planning?

As I have said, serious investment in national economic development and restructuring was considered in the 1950s by many economists to be the only reliable way of kick-starting a backward or damaged economy. Further, only the State could mobilise the resources to build the necessary infrastructure. See Great Britain after the War as well as Soviet Russia or China. The problem lay with India holding on to this strategy up to the 1980s.

On the Socialist side, you have to remember that a major critique by the nationalists was that the British did nothing for the poor, backed the large landlords, princes, etc, so virtually all nationalists subscribed to the rhetoric of enabling those at the base of society to enjoy the fruits of independence. Gandhi and Nehru both believed this passionately in their own ways, though Gandhi opposed the idea of modernisation of the economy as the route to helping the poor.

Nehru and most of his contemporaries believed that only large-scale industrialisation could really change the economy and enable India to be a player on the world stage as well as helping its own citizens. Hence the rhetoric (but limited policy) under Nehru of producing enough national wealth so that some could 'trickle down' to those at the base of society. Nehru had a major problem with many in Congress who subscribed to the rhetoric, but did not want serious structural change in society -- see his problems with land reform in the 1950s. Nehru was a genuine Socialist of a sort, but argued that India had to find its own distinctive Socialist path and could not adopt European or Russian patterns.

In allowing rights and privileges to the Muslims as a community, did Nehru fail in placing the Individual (Muslim women) above the community? Did he freeze Muslim reforms by letting the orthodox segments of the Muslim community gain control over the community?

I think one should not fall into the trap of thinking that he could control all policies and events. He was not able to call the tune over reform of Hindu law and had to give up the Hindu Code Bill, for example. In relation to minorities (Christians and Muslims), I think he felt that majority meddling with their personal law would be undesirable -- even if possible -- at this juncture. (See my answer to the fourth question.)

A real problem for Indian Muslims and the Indian polity has been the lack of modern, articulate Muslim leaders in politics who could tackle this problem of reforming personal law. It goes back to the fact that so many of these potential leaders became Pakistanis, and since then there have been few breeding grounds for such an articulate leadership in India, thus playing into the hands of conservative religious leaders. It is a worldwide problem these days — who has the authority to speak for Muslims?

Why did Gandhi prefer Nehru over Patel as India's first prime minister? In retrospect, was the decision flawed?

Nehru was a far more international figure, and a pan-Indian rather than a regional figure, and someone able to fashion dialogue across more of the political spectrum. This had been a strong element in Gandhi's nurturing of Nehru for leadership since the 1920s. I think Gandhi felt that the two complemented each other in their skills -- as indeed was the case.

What made Nehru commit such cardinal mistakes in his dealing with China? Why was it such a blind spot?

Nehru had been convinced since the 1920s that India and China were natural allies in the rejuvenation of Asia, both domestically and in world politics. At the intellectual level he could not bring himself to recognise that Communists might be imperialists and belligerents. At the practical level of governance the problem lay in the fact that he a. was his own foreign minister and b. there was no powerful counterweight of an external affairs establishment or minister to challenge his views. Further, Indian 'intelligence' was very weak on what was happening in China.

Should not Nehru have made way for another PM after 1957? Was he not wrong in sticking to office till the end?

Yes, I think he should have given up some time in the late 1950s.

You have written about Nehru's frustration in bringing about social change. What could he have done differently? What should he have done to give India a better social structure?

Education is key here and it was not made a priority; neither was population control. The government did not realise the growth rate until just before the 1961 census. The rapid growth rate meant that the scarce resources for investing in major social change had to spread even more thinly. As he said, India had to run to stand still.

How much of India today reflects Nehru's imagination?

The idea that India is India -- that is, a nation. Also the profound rooting of democracy in India. Also the rhetoric of a nation which must care for all its citizens -- even if the reality is often lacking.

It is often said that India remains a democracy because of Nehru. But was it that given his awesome stature, Nehru could keep India democratic because he never faced any threat to his position?

India is a democracy because of the deep commitment of its citizens to democracy -- not because of Nehru himself. He worked within democratic structures and helped to nurture them in many ways, but he was not their author and I think that if he had challenged them at any point he would have been thrown out. His generation and younger people brought up in the colonial time valued democracy as a cardinal value for a free India because of their experience of being British subjects without the full rights of British subjects under an imperial regime.

As a person, what were his weaknesses that would affect India's destiny?

His inability to delegate -- gathering so much power to his own person as prime minister that he stifled opposition and failed to nurture those who might have challenged him. This became disastrously clear over foreign policy and also at the end when he could not let go and government virtually ground to a halt.

Any little-known fact of Nehru's life that you might want to tell readers?

I don't think so. There are lots of lovely incidents and stories in the book if you want to use them. For example, his experience within his own family of the power of Hindu conservatism against women -- the problems of his widowed sister and how this, I am sure, goaded him on to try to reform the position of Indian women. Or the 'domestic' Nehru who loved to buy presents for his grandsons and daughter on foreign trips.
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Nihil:


Gandhi veto chesi paresi Nehru puppet ni koorchopettadu ?

Idi dynasty establishment kadaaa ??

Don't tell me this is baseless allegation ........Meeru chaduvukune school text book lo kooda vundi




Also who shared Gandhi's expenses all his freedom life..it is Nehru's family. because they were stinking rich...so he was kind of indebted...and finally when his time came..he paid back..

Nehru himself stated that he was raised as a white man in Brown skin in his autobiography...

I have nothing against Gandhi (at this point)..he did his level best within his limitations..
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Rajusk:

The only positive I see is the IITs. Not sure if it was his real brain child..


What about Planning Commission?

India is the largest Democratic country that is stable till now. Do you think it has some inputs from earlier generations like Nehru, Gandhi?
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Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and Lal Bahudur sastry are only true honest politicians
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3. Brother.. Nehru always wanted a friendly neighbor. Also India never went aggressive on any of its neighbors... or for that matter... not even with any country. There is a dispute and there were some mistakes done from both sides.... for a reasonable outcome kosam UN vellaru andhulo thappu emundi brother.
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Andulo tappu emunda ?? vere vadu vachi mana land kottestunte defend chesukovali when u have a good advantage ...anthe kani sookthii mukthavali vallisthe etla ??


4. There is a valid reason to align with Russia. India as a developing nation we wanted technical know how on many issues... at that America has distanced itself from India... and so only option was to go with Russia... and that was just a strategic partnership. Adhi kooda thappu padithe ela brother.

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Valid reason aa ?? etu side nundi ??

America manaki against ayindi ani evaru chepparu ?? koddiga link ivvandi .

manam Russia ki daggara ayyam kanuka USA dooram ayindi, not the other way around.



5. Nehru taruvaatha tharam edo sette... dynasty ani aayanaki antagaduthaaru emiti brother. Make some valid point... but not such silly ones.
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LOL ......asalu NEHRU usurped from SARDAR PATEL when the congress politbeaureu unanimously elected him to be the first prime minister of India ..

Gandhi veto chesi paresi Nehru puppet ni koorchopettadu ?

Idi dynasty establishment kadaaa ??

Don't tell me this is baseless allegation ........Meeru chaduvukune school text book lo kooda vundi


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Rajusk:

church father kaadhu...kaani pillalaki chacha anta..peadophile emo evariki telusu..


this is ridiculous babai
cant u differentiate between his sex life and normal life???
regarding security council why do anyone wants to give it away just like dat
there must be a reason which went hay wire after the decision
but one or two points in a modern india with severe challenges on nehru towrds its stability.....I donno why u people are so bitter towards him.....
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Mclovin:

Asalu Jawahar, Moti lal unchukunna daaniki puttindu ani talk mari..




Jawahar Lal Nehru intiki Harivansh Rai Bachan intiki unde secret dwaram gurinchi kooda seppu jarantha...
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Cylonesubbarao:

Neeku ee madhya emayyindi? Are you alright?


Naa ex-roomate gaadu koosintha talent unnodu le.. vaadu oka pustakam online lo sadivi, oka rojanthaa mammalni saava dobbaadu.. ee nehru khandan India ni elaa gabbu pattinchindo.. So, aa talk nenu ikkada postaa.. And I dont think its wrong.. Galeez maakke lal gaallu ee moti and jawahars.. i dont like them..
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