“Out of the mouths of babes”, they say, profound wisdom can come out. The mouths of simpletons, too: that was the premise of the film Being There, where the utterances of Chance, the slow-witted gardener, are taken to be nuggets of wisdom by those around him. In that vein, the current Nehru dynasty scion did say something very illuminating about how the dynasty, and their family-owned enterprise, the Congress, approach negotiation. With #sunyata, he said, that is, with nothing. They bring nothing to the table. And they bring nothing back.
Yes, we know. That’s how Indira Nehru gave up 93,000 Pakistani prisoners in exchange for… #sunyata.
That’s how J Nehru gave up treaty rights in Tibet in exchange for… #sunyata.
That’s how J Nehru gave up islands off Burma in exchange for… #sunyata.
That’s how J Nehru gave up the UN Security Council membership in exchange for… #sunyata.
That’s how J Nehru took Kashmir to the UN in return for… #sunyata.
That’s how J Nehru relinquished 25% of India’s land to Pakistan in exchange for… #sunyata.
That’s how the dynasty brought #sunyata to 500 million Indians for 60 years. They brought us… nothing.
Nehru was able to overpower Indians with the one advantage he had over them - he could speak English like the English did. That an ancient civilization can be brought to its knees with but a phony accent is humiliation beyond words.
Nehru was able to overpower Indians with the one advantage he had over them - he could speak English like the English did. That an ancient civilization can be brought to its knees with but a phony accent is humiliation beyond words.
Absolutely. But hopefully the millions are now waking up. Then again, hopefully it’s not too late.