Colonialism

India shedding colonial mindset, filled with sense of pride: PM Modi

The Prime Minister said that India has always valued its rich and cultural heritage and has always protected its spiritual and cultural principles

Here's why Indians might have a good reason to celebrate Rishi Sunak

The WhatsApp groups that pass as India's public square today aren't dissecting his views on austerity or Brexit. Not when someone who shares our heritage now leads the country that once colonized us

Putin calls out West's past, cites 'plundering of India', 'slave trading'

Vladimir Putin fulminated against the West's record, singling out the US use of nuclear weapons in the closing days of the Second World War, and then western nations' centuries of 'colonialism'

'Babudom' symbolic of colonial mindset, high time it is shunned: Delhi HC

The orders passed by a constitutional court of this country being violated at the sweet will of the officials openly butcher the spirit of Rule of Law," the court said

Memsahibs in the Raj

Ipshita Nath's book captures the hermetically sealed nature of the memsahibs' world from the country in which they lived

Netaji, all too human

Remarkable stories about the life and work of Subhas Chandra Bose and India's late-colonial history fill the pages of Krishna Bose's book

Reparations for colonialism and the complicated business of compensations

How does one calculate reparations? Who decides how the money will be spent? If it is to be distributed, who will get how much - and as cash, or in some other form - wonders T N Ninan

Dark truths about British imperialism

Despite the ambitious title, the author really begins her story only in the 19th century, with a series of colonial rebellions from Ireland to India

Singer Rihanna declared national hero by world's newest republic Barbados

Singer Rihanna was honoured by Prime Minister Mia Mottley at an event which marked Barbados's new status as a republic, which was attended by Prince Charles.

Barbados prepares to bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II as head of state

The Caribbean island of Barbados will become a republic for the first time in history.

Since 1600, the world has changed in the first quarter of every century

It's reboot time for the world: almost as if someone has set a timing device that sets off epochal changes in the West.

An African monetary union worth watching

Member-countries will need to work much harder to come anywhere close to the integration they are visualising with the common currency project. It is an important milestone in world monetary history

Intellectuals dislike to say 'Hindu' because of colonial mindsets: Naidu

Calling for protecting and promoting age-old Indian civilizational values, traditions and ethos, he stressed the need for a cultural renaiisance.

Letter to BS: Why did many Indians join the army of colonial powers?

Even the Congress party that was formed in 1885 did not ever try to dissuade Indians from joining the British Indian Arm

Colonialism was traumatic even for some British officials who ruled India

Colonialism was certainly a far more traumatising experience for colonial subjects