From Chanakyapuri to Panchsheel Marg, the former prime minister had a substantial role to play in naming key roads in the national capital
Even when we are in a tearing hurry to change the names of roads, some are considered sacrosanct. Surprisingly, many of them have a stamp of Jawaharlal Nehru’s worldview.
For example, when a diplomatic enclave was being developed in New Delhi, Nehru suggested that it should be named Chanakyapuri after Chanakya, who wrote Arthashastra, a classic treatise on polity. Surely, Chanakya was a philosopher, an economist, a strategic thinker and much more. And Nehru was deeply influenced by the work of Chanakya.
For example, when a diplomatic enclave was being developed in New Delhi, Nehru suggested that it should be named Chanakyapuri after Chanakya, who wrote Arthashastra, a classic treatise on polity. Surely, Chanakya was a philosopher, an economist, a strategic thinker and much more. And Nehru was deeply influenced by the work of Chanakya.