India, Nov. 10 -- At a time when the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru - the architect of modern India - is subjected to unabashed campaign of calumny by the right-wing regime, headed by Narendra Modi, it is imperative to remind ourselves how his foreign policy of non-alignment had not only raised his moral stature world-wide, but also the moral high ground that India occupied in the community of nations, unmatched in history.

While Nehru's decision to opt for democracy in India with universal adult franchise all at once, despite massive poverty, illiteracy, and extreme backwardness, was a historical exception, his pursuit of the policy of non-alignment during the Cold War between the two hostile camps, which defused ...