At the Oxford Union,
participating in a debate, Kerala MP Shahshi Tharoor bombarded Britain with
facts and figures which will always make India stand out in front of Britain. The
humorous speech, given by the MP made people laugh their guts out.
He pointed out how India
was used as Britain’s largest Cash- Cow during those years of colonialism, will
be marked in our memories forever. With utmost modesty he explained how Britain
owes 1.25 Billion dollars to India since World War 2 days. Debating on the reparation which Britain needs
to pay to the countries it colonised, Mr. Tharoor very generously said that a
sorry would have been enough. But the question that comes in here is that is
Britain genuinely sincere in offering reparation to India?
If Britain was genuine in
its intentions, then these talks about India doing economically better under
Britain, would have never gone out. Mr. Tharoor countered this dialogue very
intelligently. His opening that India’s share to world GDP was 23% before Britishers
arrived and after they left we were on our worst low of less than 2%, was incredibly
amazing.
If not this then what
else could tell a better story of Indians. Not just the economic loss, also the
mental trauma Indian’s went through was depressing. If you go by the history,
then all the civil, tribal and peasant rebellions were a direct outcome of the
oppressive nature of British rule.
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