‘I would recommend every young Indian reads Shashi Tharoor’s book to get a perspective of our colonial past in the present day mesmerising euphoria of the global village in spite of Donald Trump, says Shivanand Kanavi. IMAGE: King-Emperor George V and Queen-Empress Mary, the only English monarchs to win the ‘jewel in the crown’, at the Coronation Park in Delhi in 1911. S hashi Tharoor whose brilliance enchanted over 3 million people on YouTube with his debating skills at an Oxford Union debate continues in the same vein in his new book, An Era Of Darkness . Essentially, the debate was about whether colonialism was good or bad. It may seem anachronistic and even cruel for the victims of colonialism in Asia, Africa and Latin America that such thing can even be debated. But anything can be debated in the public school debating clubs of the UK! In the English tradition all these schools prepare you for a legal or a parliamentary career where you could argue either way on any issue depending on the context. Many of our own parliamentarians are trained in the same tradition and argue brilliantly in Indian courts as well as in the Indian Parliament… Read full this story
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