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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...

CHINA and India, home to a third of humanity, both face a marriage crisis that will last for generations. A mere five years ago marriage patterns were normal in the two countries. Now in India 500 year-old laws are being revised to allow men to marry out of caste, village and state—while in China 50m “guanggun” (“bare branches”) look doomed to bachelorhood. What has led to this marriage squeeze? First, millions of women have gone “missing”. A generation ago, a preference for sons and the greater availability of prenatal screening meant first Chinese couples, then Indian ones, started aborting female fetuses and only giving birth to boys. At its extreme, in parts of Asia, more than 120 boys were being born for every 100 girls. Now, the generation with distorted sex ratios at birth is reaching marriageable age. The result is that men far outnumber women. If China had had a normal sex ratio at birth, its female population in 2010 would have been 720m. In fact, it was only 655m, compar...