Kuldip Nayar Quotes

Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.

But the Congress also played an insidious role in creating the circumstances that led to the demolition of the mosque. Though Rahul Gandhi once grandly claimed that the mosque would never have been brought down had a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family been at the helm of government, it was his father, Rajiv Gandhi, who on the request of the VHP first ordered the locks on the Ram Janmabhoomi–Babri Masjid complex to be opened in 1985. And in 1989, with one eye on the elections, it was Rajiv who sent his home minister, Buta Singh, to participate in the ‘shilanyas’, or the symbolic temple foundation laying ceremony, at a site near the Babri Masjid but outside of what he understood to be the disputed site. After his assassination in 1991 it became the responsibility of Narasimha Rao to safeguard the mosque from demolition. The Liberhan Report said Prime Minister Rao and his government were ‘day-dreaming’; his own party colleagues and those who met him in the days leading up to 6 December say his inaction was deliberate. Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar even went so far as to suggest in his memoirs that Rao ‘sat at a puja when the kar sevaks began pulling down the mosque and rose only when the last stone had been removed’.

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Patel reportedly offered Kashmir to Pakistan in exchange for Hyderabad’s accession to New Delhi. Liaquat Ali was inclined to accept, not knowing when the elusive Kashmir would be Pakistan’s. Patel and Liaquat Ali were on the same wavelength. The former was not interested in Kashmir and the latter disinterested in Hyderabad.

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इन्दिरा गांधी इस आधिकारिक रिपोर्ट से भी प्रभावित थीं कि उनकी लाकेप्रियता अपने चरम पर थी। इसलिए उन्होंने इमरजेंसी में कुछ ढील देने का फैसला किया। संजय गांधी ने जब उनके इस फैसले के बारे में सुना, और यह भी कि वे चुनाव करवाने की सोच रही थीं, तो वे आग-बबूला हो गए। वे आनेवाले कई वर्षों तक चुनावों के खिलाफ थे। माँ-बेटे में काफी गर्मागर्मी हुई, लेकिन जब संजय ने देखा कि वे अपने फैसले पर अटल थीं तो वे कुछ ढीले पड़ने लगे। चुनाव करवाने के पीछे इन्दिरा गांधी की कुछ भी बाध्यताएँ रही हों, लेकिन यह इस बात की स्वीकृति थी कि कोई भी व्यवस्था लोगों की सहमति और प्रोत्साहन के बिना नहीं चल सकती। एक तरह से यह इमरजेंसी के दौरान लोगों के धीरज और सहनशीलता का परिणाम था। और सच्चाई यह थी कि आखिर में यही अनपढ़, पिछड़े हुए और गरीब लोग विजयी होनेवाले थे।

(Mr Gandhi thought)...The parliament system was too slow at times "unproductive" , and it never gave a free hand to the person at the top....

The drive (Sterilization) was stepped up in July and gained momentum ..... the average of 331/operations per day in June rose to 1578 in July and shot up to 5644 in August...continued to a record 6,000 cases per day

Krishan Kant said ".......... Have to take a leaf from the philosophy of Mussolini to run train on time? Have we to follow Hitlerian methods to bring discipline in offices and the economy?... (great leaders of India) looked behind such cosmetic measure and saw the real nature of the state. This is why Sir, we choose a different path under the inspiration of Gandhiji...

I often imagine myself engaged in a slew of activities to transform their destiny; a genie fighting against evil. Wishful thinking perhaps, but the tedium and tension involved in the very process pushes aside such cogitations and I return to a self-centred life of good meals and an air-conditioned room.

I have oscillated between faith and doubt for many years but have come to accept that there is a force which I feel within but which I cannot explain.

She however practiced discrimination without even realizing that she was doing so when it came to the untouchables. She would not allow the girl who swept the floor at home to enter her kitchen. Once when she did by mistake, I heard my mother shouting at her endlessly while washing the kitchen floor with buckets of water, which ironically were brought by the same girl from a nearby well.

Power with conditions was no power,

गांधी की क्रांति का अंदाजा लगाया जा सकता था, लेकिन भगत सिंह की क्रांति का नहीं। उन्हें और उनके साथियों को उसी दिन फाँसी दे दी गई।

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भगत सिंह मानते थे कि अगर अंग्रेजी हुकूमत की समाप्ति का मतलब केवल शासकों का बदलना होगा तो लोगों की दयनीय स्थिति जस-की-तस बनी रहेगी। भारत की घिसी-पिटी व्यवस्था को समाप्त किए बिना कोई सुधार नहीं हो सकता। यही व्यवस्था थी, जो तरक्की के रास्ते में दीवार बनकर खड़ी थी। दार्शनिकों ने इस दुनिया को अलग-अलग तरीके से देखा-समझा, लेकिन असल मुद्दा इसे बदलने का था। यह केवल क्रांति से ही हो सकता है।