India, June 14 -- Nehru and Modi are poles apart in their styles and thinking. But their mission is identical. Country first. It is unfair to make comparisons between different eras.

Without doubt Narendra Modi is the tallest leader of current times, and it is of immense significant consequence if he has become the longest serving Prime Minister of the country (technically), beating Jawaharlal Nehru's days spent in office following the first general elections in 1952. But it is extremely unfair to draw comparisons between different people of different eras, and besides generating any unnecessary debate, the exercise serves no real purpose. There shall always be historians who would contest the claim since Nehru served as Prime Minister o...