Our first prime minister, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru or Chacha Nehru, as he is fondly called, was a man who took charge of a country in ruins. His task was onerous: to build a country from scratch Instead, he left the country poorer…

The so-called neutrality of India and our then-PM Nehru were questioned and were accused by John Foster Dulles then secretary of the state to have double standards . So, how ‘non-aligned’ was the non-alignment?…