You may insult him, but how will you kill his ideas?

"A poster released by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) on 75 years of India's independence or the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' (celebration of the nectar of independence)" celebrations, depicted "the heroes of 1947, the poster included the Sangh parivar's ideological ancestor VD Savarkar, but Jawaharlal Nehru was conspicuous by his absence", wrote Sagarika Ghosh. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was established in 1956, just 9 years after independence and the first health minister of India was a woman Amrit Kaur, wikipedia. Now there are 23 hospitals called AIIMS, at least 15 conceived under the present government. Five Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) were established during Nehru's time, the first being in Kharagpur in West Bengal in 1951, just 4 years after independence, wikipedia. The first Indian Institute of Management (IIM) was set up in Calcutta in 1961, again during Nehru's tenure, showing his vision and his commitment to a high standard of education, wikipedia. Though Savarkar is known as 'Veer', which means 'brave', "unlike other patriots like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Ashfaqullah, who refused to ask the British Raj for mercy even at the cost of their lives, Savarkar, the father of BJP's Hindutva ideology, had actually sought clemency while lodged in Andaman's Cellular Jail", Times of India (TOI). Images of his petitions for mercy are available on Google. Savarkar did not worship cows, worked against untouchability and considered Gandhi to be a "hypocrite", Deccan Herald. Nehru also signed a bond to be released from prison by the British, opindia, but then he never claimed to be "Veer". In fact he said, "I will be the last Englishman to rule India," and was quite bold about his affair with Lady Mountbatten. All these debates are fruitless because we can never understand what life was like under the brutal oppression of the British and the deprivations cause by World War II as over 3 million Bengalis died of starvation because the British robbed our grain for their troops in the far east, News18. 2021 is also the thirtieth anniversary of the economic reforms by then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao when India was facing a balance of payments crisis and had to borrow money from abroad against 67 tons of gold as collateral to avoid defaulting on repaying our loans, Hindustan Times (HT). In 1991, India's per capita income was $360 per year but it had risen to $2,100 per year before the Covid epidemic, wrote SA Aiyar. From being dependent on food aid India is now a net exporter of food, from G77 we have become a member of the G20 and some 271 million people have been lifted out of poverty. But growth has slowed under the present government and "since 2016-17 growth has decelerated from 8.3% to 7%, 6.1%, 4.2% and minus 7.3% in the Covid year 2020-21." Our judicial system is moribund, apart from a few centers of excellence, our education system is useless for employers and crony capitalism still thrives. In Himachal apple farmers are angry because the Adani Group has offered Rs 72 per kg of A-grade, premium quality apples this year against Rs 88 per kg last year, The Wire. Adani was apparently given land at subsidised rates to set up cold stores but is not helping farmers. The second wave of the coronavirus epidemic resulted in millions of deaths because of lack of oxygen and shortage of hospital beds, Vox. After the monsoon session of the Parliament was curtailed, "The writing on the Parliament wall was clear: This government seems to know how to engage the opposition only as the enemy in electoral battle, it does not appear to possess -- nor is willing to learn -- the language to acknowledge it and talk to it in between elections," Indian Express. "The Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort has acquired a special significance since the days of Jawaharlal Nehru," wrote Congress leader P Chidambaram. "In the case of Mr Modi, however, his speeches on August 15 are unremarkable because they are not very different from his speeches at election rallies -- minus his trademark jibes at the Opposition (e.g. Didi-oh-Didi)." Nehru had ideas for the nation. You can try and kill his name but you cannot kill his ideas.