The nation is in a flux over reviewing the role of the pantheon of leaders who helped shape a post -Independent India. The epochal Nehru anniversary provides an occasion.Itis educative that the assessments on each of them vary.But a larger point is being missed: Gandhi,Nehru and Patel together,represented our national ethos that is incomplete without one of them.Gandhi provided the transcending universal spirit , Nehru the global vision and Patel the nationalist resolve.The political class of this lesser era are sadly engaged in in reconstruing our edifice with a third or more of the basic building blocks missing. Seeking power through division and now pursuing unification to meet the onus of nationalistic governance ,has the Sardar being fondly remembered.Same with the Mahatma :the richness of a secular fabric is now an important backdrop needed for the prosperity theme. Given the current globalised economic
paradigm, the nation is reconnecting with every world leader of consequence ,re endorsing the Nehruvian vision.The appropriation of tall leaders of the yesteryear,selectively to suit an issue of the day, is to remember none of them wisely.This generation must elevate itself to an extent that it throws up afresh another mutually complementary triumvirate, to deal with the changed times and aspirations.
paradigm, the nation is reconnecting with every world leader of consequence ,re endorsing the Nehruvian vision.The appropriation of tall leaders of the yesteryear,selectively to suit an issue of the day, is to remember none of them wisely.This generation must elevate itself to an extent that it throws up afresh another mutually complementary triumvirate, to deal with the changed times and aspirations.
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