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This politician doesn't like that there's no 'enduring reminder' of Britain's colonial atrocities


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Indian parliamentarian and renowned author Shashi Tharoor wants museums to be built to chronicle Britain's "two centuries of looting and exploitation" of India, its erstwhile colony, that reduced the country to one of the "poorest, illiterate and diseased places on earth". 

In a searing piece in Al Jazeera, Tharoor stressed upon the need for an "enduring reminder" of the atrocities meted out to 35 million Indians "in totally unnecessary famines caused by British policy, or the 'divide and rule' policy that culminated in the horrors of Partition in 1947."  Read more...

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