TAG
British Empire
100 million Indians were killed in a mere 40-year span of British rule
Recent years have seen a resurgence in nostalgia for the British empire. High-profile books such as Niall Ferguson’s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern...
History’s blowback: An Indian who owns East India Company and more
We all know that East India Company was a precursor to formal British rule in India. Well, nowadays its owned by an Indian industrialist,...
Horrid twist to Modi’s gift of cows to Rwanda
First there is a picture. Then there is a narrative.
The picture this morning captions that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted 200 cows to Rwanda under the...
’57 Mutiny Day: It’s modern relevance
To this very day, May 11, 1857, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar received a few hundreds of East Indian Company cavalrymen in Red Fort,...
Next: Kanhaiya of homosexuals
Let’s second guess the agenda of our English mainstream newspapers in next few weeks/months. My vote is: they would find a Kanhaiya of homosexual...