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2006-09-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Reincarnation: Nehru Reborn as a Lonely Swedish Dog

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Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-09 04:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 wouldn't it be wonderful if Prabhupada had his throat torn out by a rabid stray dog someday?

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-09 10:47|| 2006-09-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll bet this guy used to be Shirley McClane's "spiritual guide"...

Posted by Gruth Hupeagum6409 2006-09-09 10:52|| 2006-09-09 10:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how many psychics are out there channel ignorant 6th Century peasants, who by dint of being dead have not become any more enlightened?

"If cut so thee bleed, put fresh horse dung upon thy cut."

"Vote thee for Nancy Pelosi."

"Machines be the work of the divil."

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-09 11:35|| 2006-09-09 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Nehru's hatred for anything vaishnava

John can comment here, but I believe this is the equivalent of saying an American politician hates evangelical Christians from Georgia and Alabama and Texas.

Posted by lotp 2006-09-09 11:54|| 2006-09-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 SS3550, not true. When I was a grad student in history at UT Austin, I met many Indian grad students who thought (as I do) that Gandhi was a hypocritical humbug. They also thought Nehru was a spineless weakling who should have had guts enough to tell Gandhi to pipe down in 1942 (the "Quit India" campaign).

Nehru's failure to do so resulted in the incarceration of the Congress leadership for the duration of the war. That, in turn, opened the door for Jinnah's Muslim League to grow exponentially in influence and power, the fact which eventually made partition of British India an unavoidable necessity. If India and Pakistan ever end up in a nuke exchange, a lot of the blame will rest with Nehru because he, along with Jinnah and Gandhi, had the chance to keep British India united and deliberately spurned it.

Posted by mac 2006-09-09 11:58|| 2006-09-09 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Nehru inflicted Fabian Socialism on India and hobbled its economic growth for decades.

Hundreds of millions of Indians are condemned to a life of poverty because of this...

Posted by john 2006-09-09 12:14|| 2006-09-09 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 and he inflicted that jacket style on the Beatles and America in the 60's. For that he should burn

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-09 12:18|| 2006-09-09 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Ironically, it was the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir that saved the Indian army from being disbanded by Nehru...

Nehru disliked men in uniform and wanted to scrap the army.

From an article by Wing Commander (retd) R V Parasnis...

Soon after Independence the first commander-in-chief of the Indian armed forces, General Sir Robert Lockhart, presented a paper outlining a plan for the growth of the Indian Army to Prime Minister Nehru.

Nehru's reply: "We don't need a defence plan. Our policy is non-violence. We foresee no military threats. You can scrap the army. The police are good enough to meet our security needs."

He didn't waste much time. On September 16, 1947, he directed that the army's then strength of 280,000 be brought down to 150,000. Even in fiscal 1950-51, when the Chinese threat had begun to loom large on the horizon, 50,000 army personnel were sent home as per his original plan to disband the armed forces.

After Independence, he once noticed a few men in uniform in a small office the army had in North Block, and angrily had them evicted.

Soon after Independence he separated the army, navy, and air force from a unified command and abolished the post of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, thus bringing down the status of the seniormost military chief.

He continued to demote the status of the three service chiefs at irregular intervals in the order of precedence in the official government protocol, a practice loyally continued by successive governments to the benefit of politicians and bureaucrats.

During the 1947-48 war with Pakistan in Kashmir, Nehru interfered with purely military decisions at will, which delayed the war and changed the ultimate outcome in Pakistan's favour. He developed a precedent to violate channels and levels of communications at that time. His penchant for verbal orders to the various army commanders, of which he kept no records, violated the chain of command.

After the defeat inflicted by China, Nehru who honestly believed in India-Chinese brotherhood was shell shocked. He died a short while later.

"I remember many a time when our senior generals came to us, and wrote to the defence ministry saying that they wanted certain things... If we had had foresight, known exactly what would happen, we would have done something else... what India has learnt from the Chinese invasion is that in the world of today there is no place for weak nations... We have been living in an unreal world of our own creation."
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajya Sabha, 1963

Posted by john 2006-09-09 12:21|| 2006-09-09 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 "Machines be the work of the divil."

You mean they're not? These here computer thingies are certainly evil...

Posted by Phise Slineger2929 2006-09-09 21:04|| 2006-09-09 21:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Er...

...that was me too...

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