Episode notes
At 4:30pm Moscow time on Monday, August 18, we air a special preview episode. It was filmed in Moscow in June, with the participation of Russian and international students and experts on a variety of topics, both of the past and present.
In this episode, Dr. Tharoor highlights that India’s economy has now overtaken Britain’s - a contrast to the fact that when the British left, 90% of Indians lived below the poverty line, the literacy rate was just 16%, and life expectancy only 27. So there’s no inferiority complex in India, only determination to develop further.
On the acknowledgement from the former colonizers, he said one way to make up would be to have the “unvarnished” truth of colonialism to be taught in schools, as students in Britain can still complete A-levels in history without learning about it.
Dr. Tharoor notes that ...