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Nehru – Shocking facts about him!!!

Apr 9th

Posted by Raghul in Famous Personalities

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Hi Guyz, am starting  a topic which might depress Nehru fans.

Let me start with positive facts about him. If i am wrong somewhere please help me correct it.

positivezz (all of you know thizz) :

1. Freedom fighter

2. First Prime Minister of India

3. His birthday celebrated as Childrenz day

4. His generation still continues to rule India (positive to him not to people)

Now the other part

negativezz (most of you dont know this) :

1. Most disabled leader

2. He was not ALONE

I will quote certain alleged facts to support my points. The two of the three major wars, Sino-Indian war (1962) and First India-Pak war(1965) were fought during his regime and we lost most of the regions to China and Pakistan. Now it is alleged that the terror outfits are operating from POK.  As most of you know a cold war was going on between Patel and Nehru. Worse than that was the cold war between Rajagopalachari and Nehru. Many despised him. His private seceratry, M.O. Mathai writes certain facts about Nehru which were meant to degrade his name. Though the book was a biography, it indirectly shows that Mathai despised Nehru a lot. Mathai writes about some of the illegal relationships that Nehru had during his period. Nehru had a relation ship with Lady Mountbatten(Edwina) which Lord Mountbatten itself knew it. Lady Pamela , daughter of Lord Mountbatten, writes in her book about their relationship “…towards the end of the 15 months we spent in India, the immediate attraction between my mother and Pandit ji blossomed into love. My mother had already had lovers, my father was inured to it, but the relationship with Nehru remained platonic“.

Mathai writes in his book ‘Reminiscences of the Nehru Age’ (but now suppressed by the GOI), “a young woman from Benares arrived in New Delhi as a sanyasini named Shraddha Mata (an assumed and not a real name). She was a Sanskrit scholar well versed in the ancient Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her to hear her discourses. One day S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru’s old employee, brought a letter in Hindi from Shraddha Mata. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM’s house. As she departed, I noticed that she was young, shapely and beautiful. Meetings with her became rather frequent, mostly after Nehru finished his work at night. During one of Nehru’s visits to Lucknow, Shraddha Mata turned up there, and Upadhyaya brought a letter from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply; and she visited Nehru at midnight… Suddenly Shraddha Mata disappeared. In November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent looking person to Delhi with a bundle of letters. He said that a young woman from northern India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out but left the child behind. She however forgot to take with her a small cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were found. The Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined and was told they were from the Prime Minister. The person who brought the letters surrendered them…I made discreet inquiries repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts. Convents in such matters are extremely tightlipped and secretive. Had I succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father was.”

Shankar Ghose writes in his book ”Jawaharlal Nehru, a Biography“ that Nehru had a relationship with daughter of Sarojini Naidu, Padmaja Naidu and also quotes an instance when Padmaja Naidu threatened to commit suicide when she saw Nehru with Lady Mountbatten. These are only known relationships. Only God knows still how many women were in his life.

I am sorry if i had hurted the feelings of Nehru fans. I have taken the notes of the writers who have written

biography about Nehru. I will come with a new post soon.

APJ Kalam

Mar 19th

Posted by kamesh in Famous Personalities

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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam  born 15 October 1931 in Rameshwaram, Madras Presidency, British India (now Tamil Nadu, India), usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam^, was the 11th President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007, he was elected during the tenure of the National Democratic Alliance (India) coalition government, under prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. During his term as President, he was popularly known as the People’s President.

Before his term as India’s president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology. In India he is highly respected as a scientist and as an engineer.

Kalam played a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. He is chancellor of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology(Thiruvanthapuram), a professor at Anna University (Chennai) and adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India.

With the death of R. Venkataraman on 27 January 2009, Kalam became the only surviving former President of India.

In his book India 2020 APJ Abdul Kalam strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a knowledge superpower and into a developed nation by the year 2020. He regards his work on India’s nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India’s place as a future superpower.

It has been reported that there is considerable demand in South Korea for translated versions of books authored by him .

Kalam continues to take an active interest in other developments in the field of science and technology. He has proposed a research programme for developing bio-implants. He is a supporter of Open source software over proprietary solutions and believes that the use of open source software on a large scale will bring the benefits of information technology to more people

After graduating in Science from St. Joseph’s College in Tiruchirapalli, Abdul Kalam graduated with a diploma in the mid-1950s from Madras Institute of Technology specializing in Aeronautical Engineering . As the Project Director, he was heavily involved in the development of India’s first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III). As Chief Executive of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), he also played a major part in developing many missiles of India including Agni and Prithvi. Although the entire project has been criticised for being overrun and mismanaged. He was the Chief Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister and Secretary, Department of Defence Research & Development from July 1992 to December 1999. Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted during this period, led by him.

On Wednesday April 29, 2009, he became the first Asian to be bestowed the 2008 Hoover Medal, America’s top engineering prize, for his outstanding contribution to public service. The citation said that he is being recognised for making state-of-the-art healthcare available to the common man at affordable prices, bringing quality medical care to rural areas by establishing a link between doctors and technocrats, using spin-offs of defence technology to create state-of-the-art medical equipment and launching tele-medicine projects connecting remote rural-based hospitals to the super-specialty hospital. A pre-eminent scientist, a gifted engineer, and a true visionary, he is also a humble humanitarian in every sense of the word, it added.

On September 13, 2009, he was a recipient of the International von Kármán Wings Award .

The Government of India has honoured him with the nation’s highest civilian honours: the Padma Bhushan in 1981; Padma Vibhushan in 1990; and the Bharat Ratna in 1997 for his work with ISRO and DRDO and his role as a scientific advisor to the Indian government..

Kalam is the third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna before being elected to the highest office, the other two being Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Zakir Hussain. He is also the first scientist and first bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan.

After his tenure as the president he is now a visiting guest professor at JSS university, Mysore. He has agreed to deliver a minimum of four lectures every year.

His Writings

  • Wings of Fire
  • Scientist to President
  • Ignited Minds
  • India 2020
  • India-my-dream
  • Envisioning an Empowered Nation
  • Guiding Souls
  • Children Ask Kalam