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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Who built India ?

I hv been reading about emperor Ashoka. The story about the rediscovery of his lion capital - which we adopted as our national symbol, is Here. There is only one surviving lion capital in full which was unearthed by a Britisher a 100 years ago. Clearly many Britishers have served India as many may have harmed it too.

The stories of what Indians have done to build India since independence are not that well known to me. There are the obvious captains of industry and those in politics. But who set up the stock exchange ? Who built the ports ? The highways ? The dams ? Who set up the IITs ?

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