Foundations of Misery: India, 1947-64 : Blunders of the Nehruvian Era

A must read if you are curious to figure out the mystery and the truth in-depth on why India remains a poor, pathetic, third-rate, third-world country of shabby and squalid urban spaces and impoverished villages—that are more like defacement of the environment and blots on the landscape, resembling a gigantic garbage bin. How's it that we got so left behind? What is it that we did, or did not do, after independence, that everything is so abysmal and pathetic. While many nations who were much behind us have long since become part of the first-world, an overwhelming majority of millions of Indians continue to be condemned to a life of unmitigated misery. What are the foundations of this misery?

And all this unmitigated misery despite the overwhelming advantage of India as a nation with first-rate people, plentiful natural resources, relatively better position in all fields—infrastructure, trained manpower, bureaucracy, army—at the time of independence compared to all other nations who have since overtaken us, grand civilisational heritage, rich culture and languages, and unmatched ethical and spiritual traditions.

Why did we fail to leverage such rich assets of a gifted country?

Incidents, information and revelations that would shock you and make you exclaim: 'Oh God, was this so? I didn't know! How things have been kept under covers!!' Not that the facts or revelations are new, only they are not commonly known.

Covers "Blunders of the Nehruvian Era" and the "Stellar Contributions of Sardar Patel".