Colonial exploitation included heritage theft, in which India’s wealth of heritage, antiquities, and artifacts were exported to the colonizers’ home bases. They shamelessly adorned their own museums and galleries with these treasures, and this practice continues unabated to this day. The whole idea of establishing a colony was to exploit
Ceri-Anne Fidler, in her doctoral thesis, describes how food was used to oppress Indian sailors on colonial ships. “The lascar was always sallow. It didn’t helpthat his name anagrammed rascal. He carrieda whiff of scurvy, a hint of rats in the hold,hulls battered by typhoons.” These words from a poem
The office of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak outlined the measures in a statement that Britain is banning Russian diamonds. The United Kingdom has announced a ban on importing of Russian diamonds and several types of metal, as well as additional sanctions on 86 people and companies allegedly linked to Moscow’s “military
According to The Telegraph, the UK Parliament has instructed its staff on how to identify and report transphobic behavior, effectively being deployed as ‘pronoun police’. Hundreds of British civil servants staffing the House of Commons and House of Lords have been issued guidance on how to identify and report so-called
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is reportedly leading efforts to reclaim all objects ‘trafficked’ out of India since Independence and plans the repatriation of the famous Kohinoor Diamond from the UK. The Narendra Modi-led Central government is planning repatriation campaign to bring back the controversial Kohinoor diamond and other
A new IVF procedure called mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT) has resulted in the birth of the first UK baby with DNA from three people. The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure that aims to prevent children from
Britain’s former top cyber spy, Ciaran Martin, warns that AI fakes and lies will destroy society as they will make it hard to tell the difference between truth and lies. Artificial Intelligence risks “undermining the fabric of our society” because people will no longer be able to tell the difference between
A pro-ISIS fighter in Ukraine, who came from a far-right hooligan background named Daniil Lyashuk, said he received missiles and “SAS training” from the UK. A Belarusian criminal who was reported dead last month in Ukraine claimed to have received training from Britain’s Special Air Service. He was also filmed
The coronation of King Charles, a ritual of coronation that is perhaps, like the monarchy and the king himself, a relic from a vanishing past. Today, the United Kingdom is the only European monarchy that still keeps such a ceremony, and it can be seen as a fresh layer of
