I was reading a feature by the Daily Pioneer Columnist Swapan Dasdupta http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=swapan%2Fswapan182%2Etxt&writer=swapan

He writes "Looking back, everything about the Nehru-Gandhi era was despicable. The roads were potholed and inadequate; electricity was a luxury unavailable..." etc.

This is a typical attitude of many writers - I mean clubbing Gandhi and Nehru together in a blame game.
I am no admirer of the so called Nehru Gandhi family. But I think it is not right to use this terminology in any context. What an average person like me fails to notice that the particular Gandhi referred to in this context is not Mohandas Gandhi but Feroze Gandhi, husband of Indira Gandhi and father of Rajeev Gandhi.
Neither Mohandas Gandhi nor Feroze Gandhi had any role in the making of this mess in which we now are deeply in. The present generation of readers of news papers have little acquaintance with Feroze Gandhi. Mohandas Gandhi left the scene much before the present muddle started.
I hope the news makers will leave these two innocent souls out of this mudslinging.