Two centuries of colonial subjugation, 70 years of building India after independence, and a lot could’ve played out differently for the country.
A year after Shashi Tharoor’s widely celebrated (and viral) speech at the Oxford Debate, his new book ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India’ is expected to pull out the debate over colonial reparations from underneath the rug.
What does England owe us? And would we have been better off if we’d never been colonised?
In an interview with The Quint, Tharoor talks about all of that, his love for cricket and taking out time to write from his frenzied life as a politician.
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