India is a brand

In the last many years, we have established ourselves as a formidable Country. A country that makes us proud. India is to be the fastest-growing major economy in the world in 2023 with at least 7% growth, says Jaishankar on his Riyadh visit on 11-Sept-2022.
It is a proven dominant powerhouse of brains in the economic powerhouses of boardrooms.

The sheer strength of 1.39 billion people. India has the largest youth population, with more than 808 million people, which accounts for 66 percent of the total population, all under the age of 35.

India, you deserve it; you have worked hard and struggled with forces far more significant than you. The masters that ruled have plundered and destroyed the fabric of India but not its spirit. With the changing tides of education, equality for women, and massive growth of the middle class

India, it is your time, and may we shine together.

I was ecstatic when Rishi Sunak won! I am British-educated and have always been the brown Indian girl in school and college in the UK. They always had a sense of superiority and a thin disguise of contempt. But it has changed drastically in the last 30 years. They realize that education, hard work, and a sharp mind conquer everything.

History is meant to be known, or it will repeat itself. The lessons taught will be the lessons learned. If we do not see how we got here, how will we know where we are going? Our past is the road that has led us here and will go on further. I am attempting to bring out the salient points of the British Raj, as explained below:

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, as the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India’s share of the world economy was 23 percent, as large as all of Europe. (It had been 27 percent in 1700, when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s treasury raked £100 million in tax revenues alone.)

Book review – Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, by Shashi Tharoor

When the British left India, it had nearly bankrupted the country. The share had dropped to just over 3 percent of the world’s economy. The simple reason was India that “sone ki chidiya” or “the Golden Bird” had been looted by the British and drained all its wealth.

It was governed for the sheer benefit of Britain. Britain’s economy benefitted tremendously from India for the next 200 years, to the depredations in India. Era of darkness by Shashi Tharoor

India was a self-sufficient country fighting wars continuously for centuries. Then came the British, who changed her face forever. The British East India Company came in as traders and slowly changed to colonizers.

They entered through the Indian port of Surat in 1608. India, one of the major exporters of finished products, became an importer of British goods as its world share of exports fell from 27 percent to 2 percent.

This massacre continued in all industries that were powerful, self-sufficient, or traders. We were a rich country but unable to see the strange ways of being manipulated by an enemy in disguise. They were disguised as traders and then rulers, using a bias of color, education language, and sheer strength of arms to divide and rule.

Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British in famines, epidemics, communal riots, and wholesale slaughter, like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919.

Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that was beyond belief.

Citation from: An Era of Darkness: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/books/the-bald-truth-is-the-raj-ruined-us/article939176