> such extents: he refused to accept a permanent security council seat at
> the UN for india, when the US offered it in 1953, and suggested that
> the seat go to china instead.
.. and there he shot himself in the foot, more than once (hindi chini bhai
bhai suddenly turning into his crying over ae mere watan ke logon in 1962)
As for democracy, wasn't there a thread on gii or silklist about how he was
responsible for quite a lot of laws abrogating the freedom of the press?
Laws that continue to be abused to this day?
He wasn't a democrat as much as a wooly headed and utopian socialist -
admittedly one with a huge amount of brainpower.
srs
