Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.
And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.
Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”
But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.
The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.
India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.
So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.
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Whole world wants success.
I am giving the tools I used and found those to work accurately …. for success.
🙏🏽 therefore nobody is forcing anyone. This account is for those who wish to follow my advice.
My path was long and painful at first because the language tools - Sanskrit, Marathi specifically were not utilised by me.
I had to learn those by myself from scratch.
That was painful and difficult to do at 20 years of age.
The moment I learnt these two, the great things transmitted in those traditions became available- I am a very practical person.
I am only suggesting what I used to reach where I am in life.
Those who wish to reach there can follow the instructions. Start young to learn languages… else the world is a jungle and nobody is concerned if few more Indians fall by the wayside …. whole world wants success.
I am giving the tools for success.
Claims of a data breach and privacy violation affecting lakhs of JEE (Advanced) aspirants are misleading and factually incorrect.
The information circulating on social media is misleading and does not accurately reflect what happened. There is an attempt at spreading misinformation, which is far from the truth.
On 2nd June 2026, certain technical interventions were undertaken on an expedited basis to assist candidates experiencing difficulties in accessing admit card data and to ensure the smooth functioning of the registration process. These interventions resulted in a minimal, temporary misconfiguration in a cloud storage component. An ethical hacker, Mr. Rylen Anil, identified this misconfiguration and reported that he could access the concerned database. The issue was immediately rectified and access to the data was restricted.
The affected storage was read only, meaning no data could be edited or deleted. An analysis of cloud access logs confirmed that no bulk download occurred (the read-only access was limited to less than 0.05% of the data). No sensitive information was compromised or mass-extracted. This incident had zero impact on examination outcomes, including marks, ranks, and category of the candidates.
IIT Roorkee remains fully committed to maintaining the integrity, security, and transparency of the JEE (Advanced) and JoSAA counselling processes. Deliberate attempts to misrepresent this technical event and undermine public trust in the examination system are deeply concerning and should be discouraged.
The JEE (Advanced) team looks forward to supporting every aspirant through a smooth and secure admission process into IITs and IISc.
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आपका सम्पूर्ण जीवन सनातन धर्म, राष्ट्रधर्म और सत्य के मार्ग के प्रति अटूट समर्पण का प्रेरणादायी उदाहरण है। धर्म और संस्कृति की रक्षा हेतु आपका संघर्ष, साहस और निस्वार्थ भाव हम सभी के लिए मार्गदर्शक है। आपने सदैव न्याय, सत्य और राष्ट्रहित को सर्वोपरि रखते हुए समाज को जागृत करने का कार्य किया है।✨
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He is Gopal Sharma. What happened to him is beyond unimaginable.
He was abducted, held hostage, and brutally murdered. His eyes were gouged out, his tongue and genitals were mutilated, and his body was burned with acid.
Such barbarity is not just inhuman, it is pure evil.
I see an alarming trend among many Indians who think like as attached below, blaming ourselves for atrocities committed on us by imperialists, so I have questions:
Are you guys OK with India now colonizing, say, some weaker African nations claiming they need "development?"
Or landing on the Sentinel Island saying the natives are uncivilized, they need religion, education, and civilization, and it's our territory anyway?
Or take over a peaceful small neighboring country, just because India is much more powerful and can do so?
And after that, are you OK with looting all their resources while killing them in millions to build India with great colleges and temples?
Will you send your children to such a college or pray in such a temple born from such blood and loot money?
I don't think so.
Because we have a civilization and culture that teaches us not to be such ruthless imperialist criminals. Unfortunately, apologizing for colonialism and atrocities on India has now become a trend these days.
Indians have been brainwashed into thinking in terms of power, weapons, technology differential etc blaming all of India's suffering and issues on India itself and Indians themselves.
This is what the imperialists do. Gas light us into believing we are the reason for they attacking us and subjugating us. They continue to do so, making us hate ourselves, after attacking us in sinister ways even today.
The other day I was explaining one young Indian how our companies are being intentionally targeted to prevent them becoming global giants, and the first retort I got was "they deserve so." I was so taken aback and sad.
They have infiltrated the minds of our young, for sure, to sabotage their own future and their own country. It's now that bad.
If a pastor in the church converts to another religion, can he remain a pastor? Similarly, if a pahan converts, why doesn't he leave his position as pahan?
The way IRS Nisha Oraon in Jharkhand is going to the grassroots to awaken the tribal society and dedicate them to the faith is highly commendable.
My eye fell on one of her social media posts today. Then I visited her profile and found that she is continuously doing such work.
This person claims that Bhojashala is 'biggest fraud of Indian history'.
She further claims that 'Bhojashala' was coined only 70 years ago. That it had never existed before.
That there is no inscription or text predating 20th century that mentions any Sarasvati temple or Bhojashala at Dhar.
Is this really true?
This thread does a Fact Check
This is totally false.
Not an iota of truth in this.
There is no question of putting such restrictions on foreign travel.
We remain committed to improving ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and ‘Ease of Living’ for our people.
@AadiAchint@narendramodi Something is going to happen. Issues have already been found in Bangalore in PM security. It looks like he is going to hand over the responsibility to someone. This is the way without disrupting the constitutional structure.