Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters link it repeatedly in colonial history threads as an eloquent, fact-dense short speech.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

OxfordUnion

Topic

colonial reparations

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• There was a debate about reparations in quite another context - the British colonisation of India. Though not connected with the topic being discussed, the question of reparations for historical wrongs is presented in an interesting manner. [VIDEO]

• If anyone is interested to learn more; the author of this post has debated "Britan does owe reparations" in Oxford Union Society here : [VIDEO] This talk has many facts not even commonly known to Indians.

• I'll stick this here for anyone wanting to know the real history of EIC and not some fancy, all-so-rosy version presented by EIC apologists. As a constant reminder of the atrocities, plunder, destruction of culture and tradition carried by EIC in the garb of "Industrialization" …