After freedom—nonalignment, planning and secular democracy. These were the gifts in the giving of which Jawaharlal Nehru enriched the nation and himself. It was because of these that the charisma came, the embodiment of an epoch. It was by these standards that he was judged and when he faltered or deviated the people were hurt and angry. The symbol of radical democracy in an age of radicalism—that was Nehru.
