Dr Shashi Tharoor's speech before Oxford audience and my take
Many friends may find Dr. Shashi Tharoor's speech justified in asking for reparations, but here's my take....................... In my opinion, Dr. Tharoor was trying to equate British India, a collage of more than 300 small princely states to present day sovereign democratic republic unified India. Despite the so called "loot", the country of "India" probably wouldn't even exist today if it weren't for the British. Of course, Independent India will always remain grateful to all freedom fighters and leaders for their sacrifices. However, if India had never been colonized, it would have remained politically fractured with rival kingdoms still fighting each other for dominance over the subcontinent, just as in the days of old. The British are to be credited with the whole invention of the modern state of India in the first place. India owes to Britain for uniting a divided country & developing it (except partition of India and unresolved Kashmi...