They call me the Prime Minister of India, but it would be more appropriate if I were called the first servant of India—" these golden words of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru are etched on the wall of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The institution is caught in a controversy now with the government wanting to make the memorial more inclusive and more reflective of independent India's achievements and critics calling it a ploy to obliterate the first PM's legacy.
But anyone who visits this fine institution with a mind free of ideological constraints will find that it's actually among those few fantastic places in today's India, nay anywhere in the world, where one could just walk in and see how the "jewel in the Crown" was transformed into an independent country that continues to stand tall in the league of powerful nations.
Syed Ali Kazim who teaches history at Aligarh Muslim University was associated with NMML, more specifically the Nehru Memorial Fund, for seven years. He says it's unfortunate that the government wants to change NMML.
But anyone who visits this fine institution with a mind free of ideological constraints will find that it's actually among those few fantastic places in today's India, nay anywhere in the world, where one could just walk in and see how the "jewel in the Crown" was transformed into an independent country that continues to stand tall in the league of powerful nations.
Syed Ali Kazim who teaches history at Aligarh Muslim University was associated with NMML, more specifically the Nehru Memorial Fund, for seven years. He says it's unfortunate that the government wants to change NMML.
