This is how West cultivates the next-gen of “intellectuals” who will go on to represent India everywhere, and pontificate on “development”, “equality”, “peace” etc… For career advancement, the first-stage rocket fuel is Hindu bashing (caste, feminism, etc). We can see this process in-progress here.

While Buddhism has much to admire in it, it is incompatible with trade and defense. I mean, look at Dalai Lama and how he is a refugee in India, forced to live far away from his home.

“Traders – many of whom came from the vaishya caste – grew wealthy and their economic position came in direct conflict with their position in the Hindu Caste system. … Also Hindu ideas like “ritual pollution” were impractical for an economy where mercantile activities would bring people from different castes in contact with each other. Buddhism resolved this conflict. … The spread of trade, commerce and Buddhism went hand in hand. This process came to an end with the collapse of the Mauryan Empire, breakdown of central government and reassertion of Hinduism with its caste system. … Nehru declared profit “a dirty word” and the Hindu idea of ritual purity was reborn. … India kept its social order largely intact except perhaps in Kerala and West Bengal where land was redistributed. … What India needs is an ideological shift – akin to the adoption of Buddhism. … Buddhism meant more trade, more taxes, a more potent army and expansion of the empire. Also Buddhism allowed for the weakening of the more traditional Hindu power groups which could threaten the ruler’s grip.”

Let me take a stab in the dark and assert that you don’t know the name of my grandfather. I can claim with certainty that I don’t know who your grandfather was. Neither of the two gentlemen are known or remembered by people. They were ordinary people who lived out their lives in obscurity. They have no special claim to any extraordinary achievements — just like the vast majority. Their names don’t grace thousands of institutions, roads, ports, airports, prizes, etc. They did not command vast armies, did not direct the ship of state.

Nehru, may I remind you, is hailed as India’s architect, its guiding light. Do you not see that he has to be held to account? If he, like my grandfather, can be let off the hook for the disaster that India has become, shouldn’t his name also be erased from all that it festoons now?

You have to choose — either he was a visionary or he was blind. He cannot simultaneously be a great leader and also be the one who made the asinine choices that others warned him about.

Is he entirely to blame? Yes. YES. YES!! Or do you think it was some unknown person to blame? Think for a while and tell me who was at the helm of affairs? The person who ultimately takes the decisions has to be held responsible.

Even the feeblest attempts to deflect blame from Nehru is utterly and completely silly.