It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.