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Dr. Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Anita Anand, Writer & Broadcaster (BBC) on "The Colonial Enterprise" based on Shashiji's Book "An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India " @ ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2017 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
17 September 2017.
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[@naseemfirdaus1789]

The anchor is absolutely correct…..your velvety voice cuts though one’s heart and ears and the listener keeps on praying that you would never stop 🥰🥰🥰

[@Sk-ct8fp]

It's an honour of being a viewer of Dr shashi tharoor discussion, a person who always enlighten my mind, vote of thanks to you sir.

[@SimsonKoothoor]

Watching it for the nth time...😍

[@barthwalabhishek]

Forgive but never forget

[@SandeepSingh-ey4ih]

Thanks. Dr Tharoor and Anita. Brilliant discussion.

[@vikassaklani2031]

His knowledge is commendable..

[@thatsme9109]

Damn!Such a great and eloquent speaker....

[@proudindia1829]

Sir I used to make documentaries at my own, even I made some on the historical events.Apparently sir I wanted to join you and to get teachings from you on history.sir how can I contact you to get the jewel of knowledge from you?

[@solpalanpalani7206]

Talking about cricket, to the surprise of many lovers of the sport, there was an article in a British publication and later repeated in other news media in England that the game was played 1500 yrs ago in India and historical evidence with sketches on a carving was discovered somewhere in North-west India.

[@naseemfirdaus1789]

Your enlightened mind has knowledge of every single thing under the heaven it seems. What topic is there that you don’t have an idea about I wonder. God bless you for sharing/disseminating great infos among the people all over the world. Thank you 🙏

[@subratachaudhuri6930]

Sasi is a brilliant speaker . We are surprised to hear his aptitude for English language. Churchill was a man of age when human genome project was not published. With new light British had to swallow the bitter truth and there outflow of empathy from British side. Churchill possibly consider indians as homo sapiens.

[@iel-instituteofenglishlear5515]

THIS VENERABLE PERSON DESERVES TO BE THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA. WE SHOULD RAISE A VOICE TO SUPPORT HIM. EVEN HIS PARTY DOESN'T BOTHER TO GIVE HIM THE PLACE HE DESERVES. HE WOULD BE THE BEST PRIME MINISTER WE HAVE EVER HAD.

[@shaneldsouza2703]

Finally there is someone who is sensibles enough to rise up from the petty things and focus on the issues that are actually relevant rather then fighting for a movie interpretation. ..... Dr I understand your point of view that we do not want compensation for the mutiny by Brits however we want acknowledgement for the deeds that caused India to become the poster child of the third world.... Keeping g that in mind and respecting that Intent however what I want is a public acknowledgement by the Royal family and one thing that represents our prosperity before they invaded us.. I WANT THE KOHINOOR......And I want it bad

[@shaneldsouza2703]

@John Buffalo I am 97 yup.. no point fighting for stolen goods decades ago... Anyways Modi is bz creating religious unrest within the country..... The last time that happen... We were ruled for 250 years and the Brits went from being bankrupt to on wheels again.... May be its time for another 250 years........ And by they way... When will you win the World cup again.. you invented the game didn't you...... Chill... Lets fight corona insted....

[@rakhimukerji7937]

Pakistan wants it too

[@shaneldsouza2703]

@@rakhimukerji7937 it does belong to the india before partition.. so both India and Pakistan... We bith should get it back and fight against the actual enemies... But we sre too bz fighting against ourself....

[@sweetgirl4903]

This man should be the Prime Minister of India!

[@acharya8959]

She thought she could out knowledge tharoor. 😂

[@tresajessygeorge210]

INDIA is not and was not a teenage country.INDIA WAS THE OLDEST WORLD AND USA IS THE NEW WORLD... FIRST CIVILIZED UNIVERSITY WAS IN INDIA. SANSKRIT IS THE FIRST WELL ADVANCED LANGUAGE...THE SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM...!!!

[@tonycardozo1759]

I wish all Indians were like him, India would be a better place. Glad he dropped the BJP which marginalize the minorities non hindus in India.

[@rakhimukerji7937]

He was never in B J P

[@hemalbhatt8055]

Mrs. Anand seems not to believe Mr. Tharoor. Grow up Mrs. Anand. Call spade a spade. It was British "Vampire", which did all the damage.

[@indianmilitary]

she loves her white masters

[@adruvitpandit5816]

No its not like that, she agrees to his point, you have to understand that this is how British just behave. They are not too forcefully assertive.

[@tonycardozo1759]

Indians brought it on themselves.

[@RojaJaneman]

@@tonycardozo1759 every long term abusive relationship has two willing participants. They should’ve fought for their rights and died instead of accepting slavery. But instead they sold each other out for more power and ended up becoming tools.

[@juliejothi6347]

What is taugjt as histoiry in india?

[@rakhimukerji7937]

There is.prehistoric.period hindu period Buddhism muslim period involving pathan anf mughals british period mainly.the names of viceroy andf freedom movements

[@dominictaijah9265]

I thought English ships were historically built using Oak,lasting decades and certainly not pine

[@tariqsuhail6707]

I wish I had command over English

[@sarthakchhetri5328]

As shashi tharoor would say ‘READ’

[@iel-instituteofenglishlear5515]

SO FASCINATED BY HIS PERSONA I WON'T BE ASHAMED TO LICK HIS FEET.THE MORE I LISTEN TO HIM THE MORE I AM CAPTIVATED BY HIS SCHOLARSHIP .

[@AzeemaFaizunnisa]

I hate Anita Ananad.

[@anuntlallnundoo7069]

Azeema Faizunnisa you should say you are envious and jealous of her success, intelligence and eloquence, that’s why u hate her...

[@kayem3824]

@@anuntlallnundoo7069 Which success and intelligence? She is kust some TV person.

[@acharya8959]

@@anuntlallnundoo7069 if u mean her accent, that's not eloquency.

[@sweetgirl4903]

She's great!

[@nadieperumal5770]

I am an Indian and I will explain why Britain does not owe reparation to India. When the East India Company men set foot in Surat, India was not a single country. It was ruled by many disparate rulers. The Rajas, the Maharajas, The Sultans, The Mogul Emperors and so and so forth. If we had been a single country no foreigners would have stayed for 200 years. If they had been ousted within 50 years the shame would be upon them. If they had left India after 100 years the shame would be both on then and us. Leaving after 200 years the shame is entirely upon us. Tharoor is boasting that India enjoyed an annual GDP of about 22% before the arrival of the British. Which India is he talking about. Bengal India, Punjab India, Tipu Sultan's Mysoor and Malabar India Don't forget we were heavily taxed by the Muslim rulers in the North. That was the simple reason we made separate treaties with new comers for protection from these tyrants. Tipu Sultan pledged that he was going to annihilate Hinduism from his domain. He carried out his threat by rounding up hundreds of Brahmin temple priests and beheaded them. The entire families were forcefully converted to Islam. Temples that had stood for over thousand years were razed to the ground. What happened to the murtys ( gods and goddesses) that were made of gold and silver and diamonds. That ended up in his family treasure pots. At least the British respected our religious rites. Let us see what they left behind, Thousands of miles of roads, thousands of miles of railway lines, museums, libraries, schools, colleges, universities, hospitals , all forms of sporting facilities. They made it illegal to carry out the barbaric practice of sati ( the incinerating of widows) along with their dead husbands. The obnoxious, barbaric caste systems that had been handed down from generation to generation for five thousand years. The British failed in this. We stubbornly held on to it.In 1947 when quitting India they left behind one is that Parliamentary Democratic system of government. They also left behind a most powerful military in Asia. Our soldiers had fought in the jungle warfare, desert environment and the European terrain. They annexed the seven North Eastern Indian states with India. which were part of Burmese empire. In1905 while living in South Africa, practicing lawyer, Mahatma Gandhi had said this: "The British Empire had existed for the welfare of mankind". Within 20 years of independence we lost thousands of square mile of territory along the India Chinese border to the PLA. We also lost a state called Akachin to China. So stop blaming the British for all our failures.

[@rakhimukerji7937]

This is all true but it was still for running an empire not for common good of.Indian people that is why only few urban areas were Developed with universities hospitals courts transport British did not follow their own laws and rules in India PATHANS AND MUGHALS DID NOT KNOW ANY BETTER

[@razraza3183]

Churchill was NO different from Hitler, in his genocidal impulses. Shame on you for trying to blame India for British Colonial Holocaust. An American

[@gearhead8875]

Hot damn! You really need to spend some time learning how the English (starting with East India Company, and later British crown) arrived in India and stayed on from early 17th century till 1947. Their adventures into other parts of the world are pretty well documented. Please consider educating yourself before commenting on the benefits of the British Empire - it was far from benign. For those interested in learning more about the British Colonial Empire, consider reading: The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins

[@ashoks5317]

In that case what is the meaning of Bharat Varsha ?