The Debatable Land #12: Whose war and whose victory?
The Second World War still casts shadows all across the world.
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Last month Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, announced that as part of commemorations celebrating the 75th anniversary of Indian independence a monumental statue of Subhas Chandra Bose will soon be erected at India Gate in Delhi. It will be erected on a plinth empty since a statue of George V was removed in 1968. According to Modi:
“It was unfortunate that after independence, efforts were made to erase the contribution of several great personalities…