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Satyajit Ray is highly overrated. He had open contempt for our cultural heritage and deeper inferiority complex before the white skin. Sans his political contacts, not one of his movies would've been released.



British officials like Crawford, Campbell, Munro, & William Adam were writing in the 1820s–1830s about India’s indigenous education system, & many of them expressed surprise at its rigor. They noted that children, often under 10 years old were expected to: > Memorize multiplication tables up to 40 > Fractions up to 3½, and tables up to 100 >Students were trained in complex money conversions, land measurement tables, > Cowrie currency tables, > Dry measure tables (Ser table)









Sad to read that the bust of Lutyens (my great grandfather) is to be removed from the presidential palace he designed in Delhi. Here I am with it last year. I wondered at the time why his name had been removed from the plinth.





A few things on the sati post, since it’s clearly hit a nerve. 1.Ram Mohan Roy is a hero in this story. He was Indian. He was Hindu. He watched his sister-in-law dragged onto a fire at seventeen. He spent years proving sati had no basis in the original Hindu scriptures. He led the campaign. Britain helped. That’s what happened. 2.Every nation has dark chapters. Every one. Britain included. We don’t pretend otherwise. But you should be allowed to highlight the good without being told you’re glorifying empire. 3.This wasn’t colonialism forcing its values on India. This was an Indian reformer asking for help. And getting it. Together they saved thousands of women. 4.If you don’t agree that stopping the burning of women alive is something to be proud of, I’m not sure we’ll agree on anything. History belongs to all of us. The good and the bad. We choose to tell the stories no one else is telling. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧🇮🇳






#ShadowsAndSteel Shadow is our Realm, Steel is our Verdict.






Trump just dropped this chart showing immigrant welfare rates and nearly 72% of Somali households are on welfare