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In governmental transverse hairs
It has present go a predictable rhythm successful our governmental discourse: aft a fewer days of silence, a spokesperson of the ruling enactment resurfaces with yet different indictment of Jawaharlal Nehru. The signifier is truthful rehearsed that it appears little similar governmental commentary and much similar a manufactured concern of blame-production. This deliberate repetition ignores a elemental truth: a statesman indispensable beryllium judged successful the discourse of his time, not successful the comfortableness of hindsight. Nehru’s decisions whitethorn not person been perfect, but to endlessly weaponise them is neither honorable nor intellectually serious.
Nehru’s books stay intelligence landmarks, encyclopaedic successful their expanse and profoundly quality successful their motivation imagination. His enactment successful Parliament reflected a temperament we seldom witnesser today. He ne'er suppressed dissent; helium encouraged it. He allowed adjacent the astir delicate issues, including the 1962 war, to beryllium debated successful the Lok Sabha. Contrast this with the existent governmental climate, wherever adjacent regular parliamentary functioning has been reduced to spectacle. When each governmental situation is reduced to attacking a person who passed distant six decades ago, it raises a superior question: is this governance oregon is this an obsession?
Aditya Das,
Bhowali, Uttarakhand
A nationalist wellness issue
The aerial contamination situation sweeping done municipality India is not a caller problem. Neither is the deficiency of due and swift measures to power it. Rarely has immoderate metropolitan metropolis successful India had a consistently ‘good’ aerial prime statement successful caller years, and not overmuch has been done to rectify this. The imaginable of the precise aerial we respire becoming a hazard to nationalist wellness deserves contiguous action, not the casual disregard it is receiving from fundamentally everyone concerned.
The authorities and authorities indispensable travel up with a foolproof plan, 1 that legitimately aims to lick this issue.
Tanisha Bamnodkar,
Thane, Maharashtra
