Winston Churchill | London | UK
The author, journalist and historian Shrabani
Basu, who has written widely about the British Empire, said there
were "two sides of Churchill" that "we need to know
his darkest hour as well as his finest hour". In Europe
Churchill is remembered notably for his resistance to the Nazis and
leadership during World War II. In Indian he is remembered as a
responsible for the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed up to 4
million people. According to Indian politician Shashi Tharoor
"Churchill deliberately ordered the diversion of food from
starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even
to top up European stockpiles, meant for yet-to-be-liberated Greeks
and Yugoslavs,".
Winston Churchil once said
“ History will be kind to me as I intend to write it”. It seemed
Churchill was right about that, at least until very recently when a
group of activists protested in front of his statue, at the London's
Parliament Square, writing “Churchill was a racist” in its
pedestal. It is not the first time that Chrurchill have been portrait
as a racist. His comments to Indians such as “the beastliest people
in the world after the Germans” or to Africans “I do not really
think that black people were as capable or as efficient as white
people” have come to haunt his historical legacy cast in the bronze
of his statue.
