India, Jan. 13 -- On 13 December 1947, in a powerful address at a special convocation of the University of Allahabad, the then Prime Minister of India, the late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, " It is necessary for all of us, and more especially for young men and young women in the universities to pause and think for a while on these basic matters, for the future of India is taking shape in the present, and the future is going to be what millions of young men and women want it to be. There is today a narrowness and intolerance and insensitiveness and lack of awareness which rather frighten me."
Nehru went on to add, " War has not brought peace and freedom, but it should teach us many lessons. It brought the downfall of what had been called F...