The other side of the story!

One of the most traumatic events in human history was the partition of the Indian Subcontinent. The British, after 200 years of atrocities, after murdering Indians by tying them to cannons after 1857 uprising, or by slaughtering them in Jalianwala Bagh or by killing them through artificially induced famines by forcing cash crops instead of food production, or by chopping the thumbs of weavers in Bengal who dare make muslin themselves instead of exporting raw material to Britain, and feed the mills and jobs there, or by direct loot or by a million other crafty, cunning, cynical and cruel ways; did not want to leave India a strong united country. They knew that at some point the evils wrought by them will come to light and the proud culture that Bharat was, would be incensed at what was brought upon them. So they devised two ways of ruling over them and mitigating the concern of the aftermath.   Divide India on communal lines and leave them with as much infighting within themselves a...

India was the most prosperous society once. So much so that any dacoit or looter targetted India first and foremost. From Gazni to Mughals to British.. all came with the purpose of looting and exploitation and left it in tatters. The erstwhile “Golden Bird” or “Sone ki Chidiya”, as it was called, had itself molested, each one of its beautiful, colorful feather of culture, tradition even its pride was plucked away and it was barely left alive. When British came, India was over twenty percent of global GDP. Then, with every production outsourced to Britain and every economic pillar demolished, with 45 trillion Pounds looted and tens of millions killed, when they left, India was two percent of global GDP and a rate of growth of one percent or less with average life expectancy of 38 years. The British scoffed at this creation of their’s and called it Hindu rate of growth. The exclusionist ideas Abrahamic religion’s driven forced conversions and untold atrocities there-off in Goa, in Kerela...