Bhadangess’s answer to “As an Indian I find this writer's venom against Britain more than a bit embarrassing. Britain left …” > Likes and Comments

Without having read any of his books, my exposure to Shashi Tharoor's ideas is limited to his videos on youtube. He argues his case strongly and dispassionately, quoting facts and figures to support his thesis. Agree or disagree is one's choice - that's what freedom means. I particularly liked his "colonisation of the mind" concept. Would Engelbert be embarrassed being a young German today, where their schools publicise the inhumanity & wrongs of the Hitler era, so that growing up, Germans are at least aware of what their state under previous regimes did. Tharoor's hour long lecture in the University of Edinburgh is rivetting if one has the time and patience. Engelbert may be embarassed by his brown skin, needing to get out of colonial mindset. Anvita Agarwal's comments are the best lesson to him.