Congress leader Shashi Tharoor says that British Prime Minister “bending on knees” asking forgiveness on the centenary of Jallianwala Bagh massacre will wash away in many ways the sense that there are wrongs that have not been acknowledged. He said that it will be in a sense an entire society apologising to entire people.
In an interview with PTI Tharoor has said, “People who are not responsible today for the wrongs done by their forebearers in the past era apologise nonetheless to people who are not the ones to whom wrong was done. But it is in a sense an entire society apologising to entire people.”
The MP from Thiruvananthapuram has come out with a book ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire In India’ which discusses the variety of ways in which the British nearly destroyed India during the heyday of the Empire.
Last year his speech at Oxford on the proposition ‘Britain Owes Reparations to Her Former Colonies’ went viral on social media where he had brought out the issue of reparation. Tharoor’s speech was hailed by fans and critics alike. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also had congratulated him for having said “the right things at the right place”.
