{"id":287500,"date":"2025-08-20T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=287500"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:13:17","slug":"opinion-opinion-birjees-rajivratna-nameless-one-the-many-names-nehru-gave-to-rajiv-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=287500","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Opinion | &#8216;Birjees&#8217;, &#8216;Rajivratna&#8217;, &#8216;Nameless One&#8217;: The Many Names Nehru Gave To Rajiv Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By September 1944, Nehru wrote to sister Vijay Lakshmi Pandit that if the family did not decide soon, &#8220;we shall have to call [him]&#8230;the Nameless or the one with innumerable names&#8221;. Nehru chose the name &#8216;Rajiv&#8217; because it meant lotus in Sanskrit.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bBy September 1944, Nehru wrote to sister Vijay Lakshmi Pandit that if the family did not decide soon, &#8220;we shall have to call [him]&#8230;the Nameless or the one with innumerable names&#8221;. Nehru chose the name &#8216;Rajiv&#8217; because it meant lotus in Sanskrit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By September 1944, Nehru wrote to sister Vijay Lakshmi Pandit that if the family did not decide soon,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":287501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9oias69o_nehru-rajiv_625x300_20_August_25-GyMcHx-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}