'Nehru model has failed, we have been trying to improve it for 10 years', Jaishankar raised questions on Pandit Nehru's foreign policy

"Certainly, after 2014, there has been a vigorous effort towards reforming the curriculum, but the authors claim with good reasons that it still remains a difficult task," he said.

In his address, the minister further said, "The Nehruvian development model essentially created a Nehruvian foreign policy. We want to fix it abroad, just as we try to improve the outcomes of the model at home." He said opposition to one idea is based on the link to the other, and both of these must be seen together.

The Foreign Minister started his address by referring to a famous line about India's independence by an American policymaker. On this occasion, Jaishankar referred to a 1947 statement by then-American policymaker John Foster Dulles. He said it could not have been more wrong for that government then, but something American policymakers in Washington believed correct for decades after that. He says that he asked himself many times whether Dulles was completely wrong. He found the answer in Panagariya's book.