Wednesday, November 13
British looted $45 trillion from India: Jaishankar. It was interesting that about a year ago, there was actually a very serious economic study that tried to estimate how much the British took out of India in value terms, and a very calculated math put a number of $45 trillion at today’s value. So that should give you a sense of what really happened in those 200 years. The reality is that the history of India and the West is also a history of famine, of slavery, of opium trade. So, there is a very dark side to all of this.
On October 2, Jaishankar will attend a reception to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and the 90th birth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr, pegged as a celebration of the legacies of the two great leaders.
Jaishankar is also scheduled to jointly address the Library of Congress with Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, who is second in line to the US presidency after the vice-president, news agency ANI reported.
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