I have poured scorn on Nehru in these columns for decades. I am now willing to reassess and give himsome benefit of the doubt, in the light of recent develpoments in India. Not too many realize that kshatria kings simply did not trust baniya desert tribals. The finance ministerwas inevitably a brahmin. The Nehrus were hereditary prime/finance ministers of Kashmir. One could be sent to prison for espousing Marxism in Britain. That sick creed thrived at Cambridge in theearly decades of the last century, only it had be underground. Nehru was a confirmed fellow traveller. Morarjiand Vallbhai Patel attempted to sidetrack him in party forums, unsuccessfully. Ideology and kleptocracy left the country in shambles and LalBahadur was well on his way repairing thedamage when the Russians murdered him. The baniya financed BJP put them in the drivers seat and the results are only too plain for all to see.The list of twenty names of men who have raped the banking system only features them. What were oncevenerable institutions are now reduced to bank signboards with no assets to disburse. Crony capitalism is the best we can hope for, it seems.
