Colonialism
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British Museum can no longer ignore the demands of India and Greece
Reshmi_dasgupta •G20 Summit in New Delhi next month is the perfect time to set up a pressure group on this: The League of Looted Nations
Head-on | Why India’s success shames the history of the West
Minhaz Merchant •How could a country that had been reduced to penury by colonial rule rise to great power status? Of course it couldn’t
Moving out of Leftist colonialism: How India's cultural revival can be of great benefit to all humanity
David Frawley •India today, after 75 years of Independence, is again awakening to its own civilisational power and depth, no longer in the shadow of European politics and its ongoing wars
Rahul Gandhi's Cambridge outburst and Nehru dynasty's pedigreed relationship with Britain
Sandeep Balakrishna •Rahul Gandhi genuinely aspires to become India’s Prime Minister no matter the method or the cost
Benin Bronzes: Germany returns 20 historic sculptures to Nigeria as it addresses its 'dark colonial past'
•Nigerian authorities have in recent years intensified efforts to get the looted artifacts to be returned. Earlier this year Germany pledged to repatriate more than 1,000 of them in the coming years
Explained: How colonialism is linked to climate change
•Historic and ongoing forms of colonialism have helped to increase the vulnerability of specific people and places to the effects of climate change
Nigeria's looted treasures return to traditional palace after over 100 years
Fp Staff •The return of the two artefacts comes as calls grow in Africa for Western countries to return colonial spoils from their museums and private collections
Anand Mahindra shares Twitter thread on East India Company, says 'delighted to be part of turning history upside down'
Trendingdesk •Mahindra responded to a Twitter thread by author and tech expert Jaspreet Bindra, who gave a short history of the EIC and spoke about Indian-origin businessman Sanjiv Mehtawho bought it in the early 2000s
Abdulrazak Gurnah, UK-based Tanzanian writer, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature 2021
•The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”
Where do tattoos come from? A history of ancient art as humans use it to document pandemic
•The oldest preserved tattoos come from Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummified body frozen in ice discovered in the mountains of Italy in 1991