When An Indian Historian Lashed Out At The West

Who really holds the matchstick while the world burns? This 2021 speech by Indian historian Vijay Prashad throws all kinds of shade at the global climate debate. #TBT

[invero]

"Poor countries are not under-developed, they are over-exploited" M.P.

[xXColdHandsXx]

_“If two fish are fighting in a river an Englishman must have passed by”_
- Native American saying

[aryanmishra]

The only reason why pyramids still exist in Egypt is that they were too heavy to be carried to the British museum

[codemaster]

Imagine stealing someone's money and wonder why they are so poor.

[tanujashree]

He isn't speaking just for India there. He spoke for every developing and less developed countries who were a colony of the west in the past.
Edit:- To the people quoting colonialism made colonies civilized and gave infrastructures, this shows you never took history lesson, We all are aware of this. Don't embarrass yourself.

[stevestanley]

I'm an Aborigine from Australia and that was the most honest truth spoken ever

[chillerbp]

"You are worried about your future, what future. There are people worried about their today (Present)!!" That was "BRUTALLY" honest!!!! Salute to this breath of fresh air in the global diaspora of historians.

[br]

I am Native American and our people have been fighting colonialism since day one, trying to regain our identity and Indigenous culture. We are capable of leading and maintaining our own affairs. Colonialism says that we must be dependent on Europeans. Until colonialism is eradicated, colonized countries will always remain enslaved.

[novitaanggraini]

I'm an asian myself, and what he said was all true. India used to be the richest country in the world until the british invasion. I take my hat off to you, sir. Straighforward!!

[thelastguy]

As a Sri Lankan I feel very proud that this man spoke about this.

[jiaali]

Oh boy! How accurate he is saying... No doubt India has great minds and people... Love from Pakistan

[mengwu]

I like how when he speaks plainly the truth about his pain and suffering of his nation, the west calls it "lash out" LOL

[SayonBiz]

"Man woke up and chose to speak facts"

He's living that life.

[vinhnguyenngoc]

He's not just speaking English, he is speaking Facts

[TopGeezers]

Love that part - “You lend us money which is OUR money”

[you_are_in_my_spot]

For people who aren't aware, this speech is given at GLASGOW in a summit regarding climate change. Not to mention he started with "thankyou for forcing me to come to Glasgow" to a question "will this fight ever end". Thats some iron balls he has.

[Rothen_jnr]

He bravely confronted the west with such courage. Such men are rare. He spoke on behalf of Africans, Asians, Latinos and his country. Let the truth be said. May God bless him.

[BLUEerudite]

Finally someone took a stand on the embezzlement of these hypocrite developed nations. Hats off to you Gentleman! We actually need more people like him

[AbdulHannan-dvfb]

West is calling it lashing out.. it is the pain of him towards our nation.. our India.. Thank you Sir.. Thank you so much..

[Vitamins]

Read this to know about our past and achievements.

Ancient India's Achievments:

1. Brits say they gave us education. But, we already had ancient universities like nalanda, takshashila, vikramshila, and much more over thousands of years ago.
2.Indians had concepts of calculus before west like infinite series for pi, power series for sine and cosine, inverse tangent series, and much more. These series were made by Madhava, who was a medieval indian mathematician and astronomer.
2. Aryabhatta invented sine function.
3. Bhaskara II gave modern definitions of sine and cosine.
4. Sushruta performed complex surgeries like brain, cataract, rhinoplasty, limb, and much more over 2000 years ago. Surgery was invented in Egypt first, but we made many contributions to it.
5. Maharishi Kanad, a philosopher, proposed the idea of atoms in 600 BCE.
6. Brahmagupta invented the formula to determine the area of cyclic quadrilaterals.
7. Decimal System.
8. Binary number system by pingala.
9. Ayurveda.
10. Bhaskara I stated that at the highest point, the rate of change is zero.
11. Varahamihira predicted water on Mars thousands of years ago.
12. Sridharacharya invented the modern-day quadratic formula.
13. Solutions to quadratics.

Modern India's Achievements:

1. Har Gobind Khorana synthesized the first artificial gene and demonstrated the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis. He also artificially synthesized coenzyme A and played a massive role in cracking the genetic code. I reccomend you watch and learn more about him. He shaped modern genetics.
2. Chandryaan 3 landing on the south pole of moon.
3. Mars Mission.
4. Sun Mission (Aditya - L1)
5. Fiber optics by Narinder Singh Kapany.
6. Jagdish Chandra Bose was one of the pioneers in wireless communication before Marconi and transmitted signals before him.
7. Discovery of millimeter waves by Jagdish Chandra Bose.
8. Discovery of cholera toxin by Dr. Sambhu Nath De.
9. USB by Ajay Bhatt.
10. Pentium Chips by Vinod Dham.
11. S.N. Bose made contributions to quantum mechanics like Bose-Einstein condensate and laid the foundations for Higgs Boson.
12. Quantum Statistics by S.N. Bose. Also, Boson particles are named after him.
13. G.N. Ramachandran discovered the triple helical structure of collagen protein and deepened our understanding of sickle cell anemia.
14. Ramachandran plot, which is a tool used to visualize which angles can amino acids take in proteins.
15. Venki Ramakrishnan discovered the high resolution atomic structure of ribosomes, which gives us a deeper understanding of how ribosomes manufacture proteins.
16. First DNA based Covid Vaccine.
17. Cervical Cerclage was first described by Sirodkhar.
18. Crescograph.
19. George Sudarshan was one of the pioneers in quantum optics. (Watch and learn more about him).
20. Microwave Optics.

There are many more indian greats you should learn about. Examples: Srinivasa Ramanujan, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, C.V. Raman and Raj Reddy (one of the pioneers in AI along with McCarthy).

These brits committed horrific atrocities against us and brought artificial famines, which killed 100s of millions of Indians. They also r*ped teenage indian girls and sold them to s*x slavery. They did the same with young women. This caused a spread of nasty stds. They also shot indian children with rifles and flogged them with their whiplash tool or whatever it is. Ps, we had advanced ship building industries and textile industries. They destroyed it. Not only that, Westerners teach you about these inventions, but never tell indian origins. Not only that, these people call us primitive, yet look at our ancient architecture.Many of our inventions were wrongfully attributed to Westerners. Also, I do not know why Greece is considered Western when their culture is nothing close to Western. They did not have a civilization of their own, so they had to appropriate Greek and Roman identity. If Greece and Rome did not exist, they would start calling Egypt, Babylon, and Sumeria as Western 😂😂. Well karma is a b**ch, anglos and other Western countries are on a decline, and I bet they will not even exist in the coming years because of immigration and because of their looted money they can last only so long, I will enjoy their demise.