Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
Ideas of India
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The Bharat Sadhus Amajar, the Indian Society of Asetics
Rajin Thiprasad and Gulzaril Adnanda are behind a venture to set up an organization called the Bharat Sadhus Amajar. The explicit charter for this organization is for the Sadhus to help with the propagation of the five-year plans. And interestingly, Nehru is extremely ambivalent about this. In his writings between Nehru and Nanda, in Nehruv keeps sort of hemming and how he is saying, do we really need to do this? Can we really trust these Sadhus?
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