India, Jan. 6 -- The Making of A Mess - Part 1 Nehru's Pre-Independence Blunders That Shaped India's Fate

Before we canonize any leader as "inevitable," a few uncomfortable questions deserve daylight:

When does personal ambition stop being "political confidence" and start becoming a 'civilizational liability'? How many national ruptures are born not from enemy strength - but from 'elite miscalculation' and ego? What happens when a freedom movement wins against an empire but loses against its own internal pride? If unity was the declared goal, why were so many pre-1947 decisions structured like a slow-motion partition? And if history is a judge, should it 'reward intent' or 'punish outcomes'? India's national story often reads like a sac...