Full Episode OFF THE CUFF with Ramachandra Guha : In conversation with Shekhar Gupta
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
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In this episode of Off The Cuff with Shekhar Gupta, historian Ramachandra Guha talks about Mahatma Gandhi, India under Jawaharlal Nehru, the relation between Nehru and Gandhi, democracy in India then and now, the role of religion in India and what changes have we seen over the course of time.
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An excellent conversation based on the theme India after Gandhi. It provides insights on (1) why Gandhi selected Nehru to be the PM (2) what is Nehru's to India's growth and development (3) Why Gandhi is a Level 5 leader (4) The equation between Ambedkar and Gandhi etc. Worth watching, understanding and contemplating on what is shaping India today
Ramachandra Guha has such passion in public debate... Hats off
Ram Guha's aversion to the Nehru Gandhi dynasty does little justice to his own scholarship for a number of reasons.
1. Nehru never even let Indira Gandhi be an MP - so his name should not be called out
2. Indira Gandhi won elections to be the PM and even an MP. The people of India forgave her the transgression of Emergency, when they tasted the quality of the alternatives.
3. She can still be called out as a dynast because she had aspirations for Sanjay, who died. It is common knowledge that Sonia Gandhi, did not want Rajiv to join politics. Later at AIIMS, as Indira Gandhi passed, Sonia was overheard pleading with Rajiv not to take the job, which Gyani Zail Singh was insistent he take. The Gyani's political acumen was validated when within four months elections were called and the nation voted overwhelmingly for Rajiv Gandhi -- a sympathy vote, it was called. Obviously the people of India saw things differently than Mr.Guha! The Gandhis had the electorate's sympathies
4. Sonia Gandhi's hunch came diabolically true. In spite of being the single largest party in the parliament he chose to abstain staking a claim and sat out before being killed on a triumphant return trail. Sonia resolutely refused to be drawn into politics. Also PV Narasimha Rao was no champion for her cause and she isolated herself with her children, living a very private life. Scores of Congressis, who were being sidelined by PV made a beeline to her but she did not budge. Also I am not aware of any great scholastic work done on Nehru in the period as Mr.Guha suggests would be possible if they were out of the equation .
5.It was only after the Congress was facing total ruin with Sita Ram Kesari at the helm, when she could be persuaded to take charge of the party! This conclusively proves that it was not Sonia who thought that the family had a special place in the hearts of a majority of Indians, but that the whole of Congress with it's stellar leaders thought that way.
6.Again the nation stood with her as she went about learning the ropes of politcs, rejuvenated the Congress created the UPA and then defeated the NDA lead by no less but Vajpayeeji! Indians did not subscribe to the vociferous name calling and could not care less if she was an Italian or an alien from another planet! When she realized that her accession as the PM could be legally challenged, she staged the most elaborate political drama possible in a democracy and(trumping all her detractors with amazing political foresight) handed over the reins to one of the best possible candidate, who showed India some really achhe din! Again a shrill din calling her out for running tyhe country by remote rang out -- well then she would have made a fantastic PM, wouldn't she? Also, why should the Congress President, who lead her party to power, not have a say in the running of the country? How is that dynastic?
Doesn't Amit Shah and RSS have any say in the Modi administration?These are electoral victories -- Indians' mandate! Across the spectrum of Mr.Guha to Mr.Modi, questioning the people's verdict runs contrary to both Guha's sense of scholarship as well as Modiji's autocratic sense of entitlement, which comes from the same people's mandate. Misinterpreted, because his indoctrination, runs contrary to the idea of a democracy!
A longer period of history needs to pass before the jury returns a verdict on whether the Nehru Gandhi family has been good or bad for the country, but playing into the hands of this narrative will have adverse impact on even Mr.Guha's Gandhian ideals.
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This guy is not historian, but mind reader of historical personalities
Excellent conversation !
Bahut hi bura audio..mtlab ghatiya..Matlab bekar...mtlb unprofessional
48:00 ...."minorities trusted him, South Indians trusted him, he believed in gender equality, had non-parochial pan Indian outlook"...for a moment I thought Ram Guha was talking about Subhash Chandra Bose :)
Nehru Gave himself Bharat Ratna so he was not devoid of flaws
Why audio is so bad
This is the platform of the head of the editors guild of India.
SIR PLEASE USE STANDARD CAMERAS INSTEAD OF HIGH END SMARTPHONES FOR RECORDING BECAUSE THE AUDIO IS VERY VERY VERY POOR.
Reupload this video with high pitch audio
Great personality.
Extremely poor audio. It should be fixed and uploaded again soon enough! It appears as if someone recorded this a tripod and smartphone from a distance.
audio is very poor... why it cannot be rectified
Can you please fix the audio ? Unable to hear.
The audio quality is quite similar to the combined intelligence of these self certified intellectuals
Audio sucks
Baad me it did not suck 😄
gandhi didnot have the guts to read gita in mosque but he forced quran in temple so gandhi had hipocrisy when it comes to communal harmony
How can you even publish such a bad audio? Atleast work on the video and improve it.
Audio enhance jar de bhai gupta ,,
Dusra video upload karo
Indira Gandhi was elected by people of India like myself not imposed nor propped by PR firm and Bollywood guy like prasun joshi
During Q&A, hosts should comedown from stage. Do not handle audience sitting from the stage. You disturb a lot, hosts.
What's wrong with the f1 track?
This is why people use adblock.
Audio quality is terrible
Whenever someone wants Modi vilified they call Nehru bhakt Guha...Looks like a kitty party of Modi haters 😂
Modi is an unpad Chutiya 😀
@@themaverick7707 u seem very educated using this kinda langg
@@shre250 Certainly more educated than your daddy Modi.
Abe audio bdha de bhai
The bad voice/volume/audio was it done purposely.
Voice isn't good
This guy out side his books is more rhetoric than substance.
Very unprofessional of Jyothi Malhotra to be talking to someone during the conversation
It's not funny to make joke on Indira Gandhi...modi is not fit to be a toe nail of Indiras feet
IT cell spotted
Guha the Nehru Chuha
lady intervier...jyoti malhotra