Pakistan Affairs Book Club

I disagree. He might have been sincere to India, but he wasnt a very smart or great at all. The Sino-India conflict proved it. He used to beat his dhoti with a stick and claim it was the Chinese. When the Chinese showed him who he was trying to mess with and the bodybags started coming in along with the road that mysteriously popped in, he sobbed like a baby. It was actually much later, in the 90s that India, through some smart policies took off. Before that, they were too relying on IMF aid and always in debt. Sleeping with Mountbatten and his wife and earning favors in bed does not make him a ‘great leader’.