• About us
  • Columnists
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • rightlog is now TFIPOST
TFI Official Merchandise
हिन्दी
Saturday, January 23, 2021
TFIPOST
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    TMC, Mamata Banerjee, Rajib Banerjee

    Second round of TMC EXIT has officially begun with the resignation of TMC minister Rajib Banerjee

    Akhilesh yadav, Azam Khan, Owaisi

    Akhilesh finally realises that he may lose Azam and Muslim votes together, so he is making some last-minute offers

    China, Pakistan, vaccine

    ‘Send your aircraft and take it,’ China tells Pakistan to come and fetch its failed vaccines on its own plane

    Nitish Kumar, Bihar

    Any anti-government social media post can land you in jail as per Nitish Kumar’s new diktat

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    Adani, Total, Reliance

    Adani leads India’s alternate energy revolution as Total SE makes a mammoth $2 Billion investment

    Bengaluru, IT Sector, tech

    Bengaluru leaves behind London and many other European cities to become the leading tech hub

    plan

    Is It Possible to Get Affordable Term Plan Quotes?

    Indian rice, import

    From Southeast Asia to Europe: The World is hungry for Indian Rice and India is ready to feed them

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    india indian army ladakh drones

    Amid standoff with China, India puts the Ladakh region under drone surveillance. More Made-In-India drones to follow

    drdo

    For 6 decades DRDO was not up to the mark. Today it is making one missile after another. What really changed

    ghatak drone

    GHATAK- How India’s stealth combat drone programme promises to make it a military superpower

    Turkey, US, Russia

    Turkey may be sanctioned by US for using F-16s as target practice for Russian S-400s

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    UK, India, G7

    Ahead of Biden presidency, UK invites India to G7 summit amid talks of expansion

    India, China, Al-Qaeda

    China stops India from heading Al-Qaeda sanctions committee that would have given it immense leverage over Pakistan

    Africa, India, Chinese, vaccine

    As Africa distrusts the Chinese vaccine, India has the golden opportunity and the perfect resources to expand its soft power

    France, India, EU

    France invites India to join European naval missions in the Persian Gulf, the most important oil route in the world

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    sister nivedita

    Sister Nivedita – The friend of all

    Tanishq

    A stupid Ad and a dumb explanation: What Tanishq lost in last 48 hours?

    Coco island, islands, Nehru

    Nehru’s massive strategic blunder – How Nehru gave Coco Islands to Burma that China later grabbed

    Turkey, Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is not the only one: Turkey has a shameful history of desecration

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    whatsapp signal brian acton

    He was forced to sell WhatsApp to Facebook. Now, he has come back with Signal to dethrone WhatsApp

    fan

    Here’s Why Finding the Right Ceiling Fan is Important

    coolie no. 1

    This is not even about nepotism; Coolie No. 1 remake is plain horrible and a huge insult to Govinda

    ajinkya rahane

    Ajinkya Rahane – One of the best test captains India NEVER had

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
No Result
View All Result
TFIPOST
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    TMC, Mamata Banerjee, Rajib Banerjee

    Second round of TMC EXIT has officially begun with the resignation of TMC minister Rajib Banerjee

    Akhilesh yadav, Azam Khan, Owaisi

    Akhilesh finally realises that he may lose Azam and Muslim votes together, so he is making some last-minute offers

    China, Pakistan, vaccine

    ‘Send your aircraft and take it,’ China tells Pakistan to come and fetch its failed vaccines on its own plane

    Nitish Kumar, Bihar

    Any anti-government social media post can land you in jail as per Nitish Kumar’s new diktat

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    Adani, Total, Reliance

    Adani leads India’s alternate energy revolution as Total SE makes a mammoth $2 Billion investment

    Bengaluru, IT Sector, tech

    Bengaluru leaves behind London and many other European cities to become the leading tech hub

    plan

    Is It Possible to Get Affordable Term Plan Quotes?

    Indian rice, import

    From Southeast Asia to Europe: The World is hungry for Indian Rice and India is ready to feed them

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    india indian army ladakh drones

    Amid standoff with China, India puts the Ladakh region under drone surveillance. More Made-In-India drones to follow

    drdo

    For 6 decades DRDO was not up to the mark. Today it is making one missile after another. What really changed

    ghatak drone

    GHATAK- How India’s stealth combat drone programme promises to make it a military superpower

    Turkey, US, Russia

    Turkey may be sanctioned by US for using F-16s as target practice for Russian S-400s

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    UK, India, G7

    Ahead of Biden presidency, UK invites India to G7 summit amid talks of expansion

    India, China, Al-Qaeda

    China stops India from heading Al-Qaeda sanctions committee that would have given it immense leverage over Pakistan

    Africa, India, Chinese, vaccine

    As Africa distrusts the Chinese vaccine, India has the golden opportunity and the perfect resources to expand its soft power

    France, India, EU

    France invites India to join European naval missions in the Persian Gulf, the most important oil route in the world

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    sister nivedita

    Sister Nivedita – The friend of all

    Tanishq

    A stupid Ad and a dumb explanation: What Tanishq lost in last 48 hours?

    Coco island, islands, Nehru

    Nehru’s massive strategic blunder – How Nehru gave Coco Islands to Burma that China later grabbed

    Turkey, Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is not the only one: Turkey has a shameful history of desecration

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    whatsapp signal brian acton

    He was forced to sell WhatsApp to Facebook. Now, he has come back with Signal to dethrone WhatsApp

    fan

    Here’s Why Finding the Right Ceiling Fan is Important

    coolie no. 1

    This is not even about nepotism; Coolie No. 1 remake is plain horrible and a huge insult to Govinda

    ajinkya rahane

    Ajinkya Rahane – One of the best test captains India NEVER had

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
No Result
View All Result
TFIPOST
No Result
View All Result
  Newswire
‘US risks falling into economic hole without decisive action’ 14 mins ago
California reports record spike in daily Covid deaths 23 mins ago
Ram Gopal Varma: ‘D Company’ to be mother of all gangster films 29 mins ago
Natural Covid-19 remedy-makers conduct clinical trial 35 mins ago
Akshay-starrer ‘Bachchan Pandey’ to release on Jan 26 next year 35 mins ago
Sana Jafri acts in ‘Gidh’ teleplay, calls the hybrid theatre format exciting 35 mins ago
Next
Prev

The great Constitutionalist Nehru was criticized once, he responded by restricting Free Speech, right to trade and property rights

Jayesh Sharma
by Jayesh Sharma
14 November 2016
in Opinions
0
nehru
2
SHARES
1.3k
VIEWS
Sharre via FacebookShare via Twitter

This was the start of freedom, but laying the foundation of the politics was one man, Jawaharlal Nehru. The man credited with creating the modern, liberal India. And it all started with that speech, popular as the “tryst of destiny” speech.

That speech is supposed to be a declaration by a proud and robust India, ready to take on the world. It’s a fizzle. To sum it up, it says that with great power comes great responsibility, that’s it. The language seems overwrought, repetition is pervasive and ideas so stale they’re rotten.

Or maybe the ideas seem stale in retrospect. Because we know what happened. India didn’t grow while Nehru ruled. It didn’t become a world power. Instead of being a beacon of democracy, Nehru colluded with dictators and oppressors. His close friends were Marshal Tito, the communist dictator of Yugoslavia, and Nasser, the Pro USSR dictator of Egypt. Instead of a galloping dynamism, Indian economy was straddled with the slander of “Hindu Rate of growth”, meaning growing at a pace of 2-4% when we should have grown at 7-8% at least.

Nehru tried to copy USSR as much as possible. A journalist attacked his economic policies, so he got that guy arrested. The supreme court upheld the right of the journalist. Nehru promptly brought the first amendment and placed restrictions on speech. Yup, the tradition of reacting badly to adverse court decisions didn’t start with Indira Gandhi.

The first amendment also restricted the right to trade. The right to do a work of your choice, the way you want was abrogated. And we are not talking about selling drugs/guns here, just simple business/occupation. In “greater interests of the nation”, any business could be controlled by the state to any extent. Again, the wording was deliberately vague. This was the basis of the dreaded license-quota-permit system where government decided how much you are allowed to produce and what goods you can produce. The state inspectors would fine you if you were more productive than the state wanted you to be. This was the noose that suffocated Indian capitalism. And allowed only those to succeed that were close to power. That was the intent anyway.

The next thing Nehru attacked was property rights. The state has the right to pass a law taking your assets and give them to someone else, and they can do it legally. It has not been practiced as much as you’d fear, but the intent is right there.

Lastly, the constitution guaranteed equity before law, irrespective of caste and creed. But Nehru introduced an amendment to take that away too. After this amendment, the state can make any laws to favour any community it deems backward, and no court can overturn that.

This is the basis for caste politics of today, the seeds sown by Nehru.

From top down control to curtailing individual freedom to shackling the economy to vote bank politics, and even politics of vendetta. Nehru sowed the seeds of all the ills of post-independence India. This is the reality behind the benign face of a supposed liberal who gave that speech about destiny.

Tags: Jawaharlal Nehru
Share2TweetSend
Previous Post

Demonetization Row: Refuting Kejriwal’s claims and unmasking his hidden agenda

Next Post

Demonetization is a nightmare for these politicians

Jayesh Sharma

Jayesh Sharma

Indian, reader, Classical Liberal, rationality enthusiast, Filmy, Laparoscopic cancer surgeon

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy Policy.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • Most Read
  • Latest
Xi Jinping, coronavirus, Shinzo Abe, china, Japan, coornavirus, COVID-19, Wuhan Virus

‘Pack up and get out of there,’ Japan to spend $2.2 billion to get Japanese companies to exit China

9 April 2020
ajay devgn karan johar

The man who bullied the Bully – How Ajay Devgn made Karan Johar’s monopoly a joke and forced him to apologize

22 June 2020
Huawei, China, Trump, USA, Xi Jinping

‘Our survival is at stake now,’ Chinese Telecom giant Huawei crumbles after US ban on Semiconductor exports

19 May 2020
T-Series Sonu Nigam Divya Khosla Kumar Bhushan Kumar

T-Series forced to take down Atif Aslam’s video, Divya Khosla trolled. T-Series has a bad day in office

25 June 2020
TMC, Mamata Banerjee, Rajib Banerjee

Second round of TMC EXIT has officially begun with the resignation of TMC minister Rajib Banerjee

23 January 2021
Akhilesh yadav, Azam Khan, Owaisi

Akhilesh finally realises that he may lose Azam and Muslim votes together, so he is making some last-minute offers

23 January 2021
China, Pakistan, vaccine

‘Send your aircraft and take it,’ China tells Pakistan to come and fetch its failed vaccines on its own plane

23 January 2021
Nitish Kumar, Bihar

Any anti-government social media post can land you in jail as per Nitish Kumar’s new diktat

23 January 2021

Popular This Week

Arnab Goswami, Modi, Pulwama Attack
Trending

It was not just Arnab but 1.3 Billion Indians who knew that PM Modi was going to do something “big” after the Pulwama attack

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
18 January 2021
Imran Khan, Balakot Airstrike, Pakistan, PM Modi
Trending

Imran Khan was trying to “rip into PM Modi”, ended up accepting that IAF bombed the poop out of Pakistan

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
18 January 2021
whatsapp signal brian acton
technology

He was forced to sell WhatsApp to Facebook. Now, he has come back with Signal to dethrone WhatsApp

by Abhinav Singh
15 January 2021
Tandav, social media, ali abbas zafar
Trending

As Tandav director issues a sorry excuse of an apology, its stars share memes on social media

by Abhinav Singh
20 January 2021
China, vaccines, India
Trending

China finally admits that it lost the vaccine war to India

by Yash Joshi
22 January 2021

©2021 TFI Media Private Limited

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
TFI Official Merchandise
हिन्दी
  • About us
  • Columnists
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • rightlog is now TFIPOST

©2021 TFI Media Private Limited