Shashi Tharoor has written eloquently and forcefully about the brutality of British colonial rule in India. But the question is: will he ever turn his pen toward the colonial ambitions of his own country-toward Occupied Kashmir, where India seems to be reenacting the very imperial script Tharoor so passionately condemns?

Take the Kashmir Railway Project as an example. In its nature and intent, is it not a more sinister version of the railway system the British built across India? The railways are often portrayed as a grand British gift to united India.

But Tharoor, to his credit, disagrees. He rightly points out that the railways were never intended to benefit the Indian people. They were a logistical tool for the British Empire-meant to expedite the extraction of raw materials, transport horses during world wars, shuttle soldiers across colonial fronts, and ensure swift military mobility.

Muslim heritage is being erased while Hindu nationalist myths are presented as facts.

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