Indias Jewel in the Crown

May 06, 2016 12:37

"Britain owes us. But, instead of returning the evidence of their rapacity to their rightful owners, the British are flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother's crown in the Tower of London. It is a stark reminder of what colonialism truly was: shameless subjugation, coercion, and misappropriation. Perhaps that is the best argument for leaving the Kohinoor in Britain, where it emphatically does not belong."

The definitive read on the repatriation of the Kohinoor by Shashi Tharoor.

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