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Personality Cults Are a Demand Problem, Not Just a Supply Problem

Former diplomat Nirupama Rao's Opinion piece, published in The Hindu, revisits Nehru's and Ambedkar's historical warnings against personality cults just as global commentary intensifies around contemporary strongman politics and charismatic technological figures. In 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru anonymously published an essay titled 'The Rashtrapati' under the pseudonym "Chanakya" in The Modern Review, warning that his own soaring…