In ‘double standards’, none can beat the British
FILE PHOTO: Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Laura Lean/Pool/File Photo
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7th Mar 2021
Rabindranath Tagore highlighted British (and Western) double standards in his great poem ‘Africa’ when he brought out the contrast between the serene Church prayers back home and the unspeakable brutalities inflicted on colonised races.
Another classic case of British ‘double standards’ has recently emerged in the way Bangladesh-origin British national Shamima Begum has been deprived of her British citizenship.
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Congress Planned 1995 Purulia Arms Drop to Oust Left Front in WB; India Seeking Extradition: Niels Holck
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Speaking to News18.com on the phone, the alleged key conspirator said the case was closed in 2011 in Denmark and now the Indian government is trying to make a new case, which he maintained was illegal.
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Twenty-five years ago, villagers in Bengal’s Purulia district were woken up around midnight by the roar of an Antonov An-26 Latvian aircraft.
The crew dropped a large consignment of arms including several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than sixteen thousand rounds of ammunition over a large area in Jhalda, Khatanga, Belamu and Maramu villages on December 17, 1995. Locals informed the police who confiscated the weapons.