Study the past, if you would divine the future.-ConfuciusThose who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.-George SantayanaBut for a series of major blunders by Nehru across the spectrum-it would not be an exaggeration to say that he blundered comprehensively-India would have been on a rapidly ascending path to becoming a shining, prosperous, first-world country by the end of his term, and would surely have become so by early 1980s-provided,...