The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
There is a truth that needs telling. There is context that needs explaining. The racial superiority of Europeans over the people of the past colonies is predicated on ONE lie – that the former were advanced and rich. They were NOT. Their wealth and riches is a measure of their barbarity. In the riches of Western “civilization”, humanity stands ashamed!
In an interesting discussion, Kangana Ranaut eulogizes about London and how she it was such a beautiful city. To this Sadhguru says that London, a city she so likes, was actually built on money plundered from India.
This is one aspect of Colonial history that no one talks about. Western Europe and indeed the US later were built on the exploitation of the wealth and people of the colonies.
Not only were the Indians enslaved, but used in the World Wars, without the real participation of India as a country. Obviously as canon fodder.
Over one million Indian troops served overseas, of whom 62,000 died and another 67,000 were wounded. In total at least 74,187 Indian soldiers died during the war. In World War I the Indian Army fought against the German Empire in German East Africa and on theWestern Front.
–Wikipedia: Indian Army during World War 1
It is important to understand how the redistribution of the wealth happened due to colonial looting.
In the above chart, one can see how India went down post the British rule. From roughly 25-27% of the world’s GDP to less than 4%! Meanwhile, the share of UK shot up tremendously thanks to the wealth looted by them in India. The chart below illustrates that better in terms of UK vs India.
In the chart above, one can see how the UK’s GDP rose and how India’ GDP fell at the same time.
In a significant research done by Great Game India, it was seen how Rothschilds, the family which dominated the banking industry in Europe was also the owner of East India Company
All this is important to understand, because what is shown as a racial virtue – that Whites or Europeans were somehow “superior” – has been predicated on the worst human actions ever on this planet. Colonialism and genocide were the basis of Western “civilization”.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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