Kohinoor (Mountain of Light) : Narendra Modi government heaps "mountain of shame" on India
New Delhi. What a shame ! It is like 'shame of millennium'. Narendra Modi government submitted in the Supreme Court that India should not stake claim to the famed $200 million Kohinoor diamond as "it was neither stolen nor forcibly taken away". Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, appearing for the government on Monday, said this was the stand of the Culture Ministry. He also told the court that the 105-karat Kohinoor diamond was handed over to the East India Company by Maharaja Duleep Singh.
Thank god the government lawyer did not say that India was not subjugated or colonized by British but Indians willingly accepted the benevolent, civilized British Rule. The lawyer also did a favour to Indians by not saying that India over the centuries was not plundered by Arab barbarians but was showered with divine mercy and message of equality.
By same logic colonial residuals will argue that 5 million people of Bengal were not died of hunger due to 'secret war' of Winston Churchill ; they died because they stopped eating.
Modi personally owes an explanation to nation . At the least, he should direct couture ministry to withdraw its submission forthwith and tender an unconditional apology, though no apology can mitigate the offence .
British would never return Kohinoor, they consider their birthright to plunder and violate other countries, their people and civilizations but to absolve them from crimes against humanity is no less a crime .
New Delhi. What a shame ! It is like 'shame of millennium'. Narendra Modi government submitted in the Supreme Court that India should not stake claim to the famed $200 million Kohinoor diamond as "it was neither stolen nor forcibly taken away". Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, appearing for the government on Monday, said this was the stand of the Culture Ministry. He also told the court that the 105-karat Kohinoor diamond was handed over to the East India Company by Maharaja Duleep Singh.
Thank god the government lawyer did not say that India was not subjugated or colonized by British but Indians willingly accepted the benevolent, civilized British Rule. The lawyer also did a favour to Indians by not saying that India over the centuries was not plundered by Arab barbarians but was showered with divine mercy and message of equality.
By same logic colonial residuals will argue that 5 million people of Bengal were not died of hunger due to 'secret war' of Winston Churchill ; they died because they stopped eating.
Modi personally owes an explanation to nation . At the least, he should direct couture ministry to withdraw its submission forthwith and tender an unconditional apology, though no apology can mitigate the offence .
British would never return Kohinoor, they consider their birthright to plunder and violate other countries, their people and civilizations but to absolve them from crimes against humanity is no less a crime .
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