Jawaharlal Nehru is a fine example of a liberal, visionary and progressive thinker (“ >Nehru: The writer, the historian ,” Nov.13). However, the story of Indian independence is of a collaborative legacy, one in which every leader contributed his mite. Political parties must cease playing politics over our national heroes.
Ashutosh Dalal,
New Delhi
In his A Discovery of India, Nehru has dispassionately analysed Dravidian-Aryan history though he was of Aryan blood. His Glimpses of World History was written for all daughters and sons of this soil. If Lord Chesterfield’s “Letters” (to his son) was a guide to all young people in the West in those days, Glimpses... was and is a guide for all young Indians.
P. Alwarappan,
Coimbatore
Those who have read Nehru’s writings respect and love him not only for his writing skills and honest recording of historical facts but also for the way in which he knit the country. The leaders of our freedom movement were tall leaders. Those who strain every sinew and nerve in their bodies to polarise communities for electoral gains will never realise the harm they are doing to today’s youth by distorting historical facts.
Rameeza A. Rasheed,
Chennai
The legacy of Nehru as a great leader, an orator, an educator and, most importantly, a freedom fighter and visionary cannot be erased even if a few people who forget to take a holistic view of India and the world for their short-term gains, tried to do so.
Ege Lollen,
Bengaluru
The article was a succinct account of the synthesis of creativity and commitment to humanity in Nehru’s interpretation of history. He had a view of history as Karl Marx: “History has no other way of answering old questions than by putting new ones.”
K. Chellappan,
Chennai
