Russia helped launch the decolonial movement in the heart of the British Empire with the help of Rafiq "Roosi" Ahmed, one of the few freedom warriors invited to New Delhi in 1972 by the Indian government to commemorate the country's silver jubilee of independence.
Rafiq "Roosi" Ahmed passed away forty years ago. However, his trips to the former USSR have been so little remembered that his descendants—who are still referred to as the "Roosis" (a Hindi/Urdu term for Russian nationals) of...
