WHAT A SHAME!

I wonder whether the British even today feel any shame for what they have done to a third of the world in terms of colonial oppression. It would be worth watching them lose their own freedom one day for centuries on end and suffer the cruelty they inflicted on innocent peoples of the world. When the British speak of fair play and justice which they claim to be the hallmark of their civilisation, they ought to revisit the pages of their own colonial history and judge for themselves what perfidies their forefathers have perpetrated on other races and nations in the name of attempting to civilise the so-called inferior races which till date remains the biggest bluff that British propaganda has carefully crafted to give sanity and sanction to the most barbarous regime in history.

The British have despoiled the whole world in their bid to build their own nation and thus remain tainted in history as the biggest plunderer of world wealth. Our country has been ruined geographically, culturally and economically by British conquest and it is time we give up our affiliation to the British Commonwealth of Nations which at any rate we ought not to have joined in the first place unless, of course, it was a binding condition in the Transfer of Power that granted us our partitioned dominion status.

It is high time that every Indian consciously forsakes the induced anglicised complex consequent on British subjugation for 190 years, and asserts himself as a nationalistic Indian in its widest heritage sense and not in any parochial sense though. We must feel proud as a nation whose roots are embedded so far back in time that these bubble-nations of the day dare not even contemplate what they were like when civilisation soared in India. And to have the audacity to say that they (the British) had come to India by the decree of Providence to civilise us seems to be downright racism and the biggest blasphemy in the realm of historical truth.

Let the Englishman of today realise what his forefathers had done by way of damaging world culture in the name of colonialism, for wherever they had gone in search of the silver coin and its kinsmen, they had decimated local cultures and destroyed local populations by their way of 'civilising' the 'uncivilised'. So much for British fair-play and justice, so much for their 'Christian charity' and so much for their commercial concern for the 'inferior' nations of the world.

Times have changed and let us revert to our national way of life and evolution and let the offenders to our culture and our nation also reflect on how they may now learn the finer art of civilisation from them who they had come to teach so once.