Narendra Modi endorses Britain paying damages to India for colonial rule
Source: The Guardian
Narendra Modi endorses Britain paying damages to India for colonial rule
Indian prime minister praises opposition MP Shashi Tharoors call for UK to pay
compensation for centuries of economic destruction
Jason Burke in Delhi
Friday 24 July 2015 09.17 BST
Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, has praised an opposition politician who called for Britain to make reparations to India for the damage done during 200 years of colonial rule in a speech at Oxford University.
A video clip of Shashi Tharoor, an author and well-known parliamentarian from the centre-left Congress party, making an impassioned argument in favour of Britain providing India financial compensation for centuries of economic destruction and extraction became a hit on social media after the Oxford Union debating society posted it online last week.
Tharoors speech reflected the feelings of patriotic Indians on the issue and showed what impression one can leave with effective arguments by saying the right things at the right place, Modi said at an event in New Delhis parliament on Thursday.
The 15-minute video of Tharoors speech has been viewed more than 1.5m times on YouTube and was widely reported in the Indian press.
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