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Reading notes : An Era of Darkness - The British Empire in India By Dr Shashi Tharoor

First and the foremost, I like several of my friends (with whom I had the chance to discuss this topic), always learned history at school with the sole purpose of scoring and getting a higher GPA. Having pursued an engineering degree,  subjects like History and Social sciences remained a mere collection of evanescing  reminiscences which were never solid enough to truly realize my home country’s history. When this author asked a British media news anchor this question, it came down as a slap on my face honestly “How will you appreciate where you are going, if you don’t know where you’ve come from?” Reading works like “Sapiens” by Prof. Yuval Noah Harari and this book are my efforts to fathom the evolution of my home land which is the most promising countries of 21 st century, India. Out of 1.3 billion Indians, still about 6 million older adults have memories of the colonial Raj, the author claims. I would suggest all those who are interested in truly realizing and knowing the hi