An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

by Shashi Tharoor

Compensation should be paid to the victims, not to their grandchildren, and by the wrongdoers, not by their grandchildren.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did in 2016 when he apologized on behalf of Canada for the actions of his country’s authorities a century earlier in denying permission for the Indian immigrants on the Komagata Maru to land in Vancouver, thereby sending many of them to their deaths. Trudeau’s Willy Brandt moment needs to find its British echo.