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Book Shook | ‘Nehru Needs No Defence’: Aditya Mukherjee

"Nehru's shadow still stands tall in 2024, 60 years after his death," Mukherjee says.
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Historian Aditya Mukherjee writes about the architect of modern India, in his latest book, Nehru’s India, Past Present and Future, and how his shadow still stands tall in 2024, 60 years after his death. He spoke to Seema Chishti about aspects of Nehru’s influence on India, its society, education system, its image in the world and its economics.

 

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