Happy Birthday, India. (She turns 58 today)

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[voletti]

On midnight 14th August 1947, Great Britain ceded soverignity over the Indian subcontinent to its native people. The struggle for Independence was led by Mohandas K Gandhi and boasted stalwarts like Nehru. The day also marked the birth in blood of 2 new nations - India and Pakistan - in one ancient land .

[voletti]

Must say, there seems to be something about the Brits. They left their colonies in decent enough shape to become successful democracies following the rule of law. Contrast that with ex-spanish, Dutch or worse, French colonies.....and you'll know what I'm talking about.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

This was one of the worst debacles in British history. Read "Freedom at Midnight" for a well-documented history of this tragedy.

[marmar]

Happy Birthday.........to a nation who is smart enough to understand the USA........thanx........

[EDINVA]

Happy Birthday to India !!! Isn't it one of two nations on the entire globe that actually LIKES the USA? I was impressed last month when its presidented visted, and hope we can move forward with India as an ally.

[marmar]

Exactly.......that is why I gladly say Happy Birthday India, may the Light shine on you brightly.....

[EDINVA]

not to mention India is heavily populated with really bright, well educated people ... and those, of course, who aren't ... but most Indians I've met are EXTREMELY well educated in many spheres.

[marmar]

Lots of doctors.........

[minus_273]

dotn forget the contribution of Hitler and the rest of germany. Had there been no world wars India would likely have been like Autralia or Canada (not to say thats bad).
And who forget the Indian Natioanl army which allied with Hitler and Japan against the US and her allies.

now as for the colonies, France tried to reclaim indo china after losing it to Japan.. damn frogs.

[minus_273]

what do you mean India became a socialist state and allied with the soviets in the cold war. They also founded the non aligned movement to oppose the US.

[mikeIII]

Listening to the recent talk by the India PM to Congress, I am convinced India has come of age, and is well on its way to be a power to take note of. The next few years of alliance with India should interesting.

[Blzbba]

Happy Birthday, India!!! Here's some American jobs!

Yours,

George W. Bush

[Clemenza]

Ah, another lapdog of ol' blighty defending British Imperialism.

India has one of the fastest growing economies in the world and may even surpass ol' blighty within my lifetime. F--k the Tories and their sadness of the "loss of the Raj."

[Gengis Khan]

This was one of the worst debacles in British history. Read "Freedom at Midnight" for a well-documented history of this tragedy.

"Freedom at Midnight" is pure crap. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (French-frog) are two liberal pukes and lickspittles of the Raj.......... And there are quite a few of them on FR as well.

This was one of the worst debacles in British history.

Yeah a mistake that was corrected in 1947.

And now the ol' Blighty Raj and their apologists can relegate themselves to the sewers of history. The so-called "Great Britain"(the Poms call it to pamper their vanity) is just a "has-been-shadow-of-a-has-been-power", whose presence or absence from the world scene today does not make any difference. Pommies were never more irrelevant to the world politics then today. The ol' Blighty is just a deadwood still occupying the UN seat. It is high time they hand it over to G4 with dignity.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Easy enough to resort to name-calling when you have no facts to back your bile. India is a third-world backwater joke and always will be, whether you want to pretend it's a "democracy" or not. Besides the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people killed as a direct result, many of India's (and Pakistan's)present problems can be traced to the incompetent manner in which independence came about. If you want to stick your heads up your arses and ignore that, and celebrate such idiocy, go right ahead. Seems to be a natural position for you.

[Gengis Khan]

Easy enough to resort to name-calling when you have no facts to back your bile.

 

You bloody-well asked for the bile with your first post, mate. And you whine now that you cant stand the heat? How Pommie of you!

 

India is a third-world backwater joke and always will be, whether you want to pretend it's a "democracy" or not.

 

Whatever it is, its way better then the "dhimmocracy" that is Britain.The much vaunted greatness of the so-called "Great Britain" is by far a bigger joke then any that exists in the world today. At best its an inconsequential and impotent province of Europe (not even worth calling a country) at worse its a country that whores its arse to the Dhimmies.

 

Besides the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people killed as a direct result, many of India's (and Pakistan's)present problems can be traced to the incompetent manner in which independence came about.

 

Incompetent? Naah. Its was the result of the Machiavellian schemes of the Pommie pukes, the likes of Mountbatten (who of course was cuckolded by none other then Nehru), unleashed it on India by design. Thanks to India which started the process of decolonisation and dismantling of the vestiges of the Raj, London was relegated to their deserving place in world politics, ie the sewers. Even Ireland has better standing then Britain in world politics. Personally I think the English shithole would be better off inside the EU and under the French and Germans.

 

If you want to stick your heads up your arses and ignore that, and celebrate such idiocy, go right ahead. Seems to be a natural position for you.

Not bloody likely.

Then again talking about arse, had it not been for the Indians fighting and dying for the British pansies in World war I and World war II the Pommie arse would have been disfigured beyond recognition by the Jerries and the Japs. The effeminate and upscale British mama's boys (or mama's pantywaist rather) would have had their (spineless) necks shoved through their tiny anal apertures by the Germans and Japanese had it not been the Indians and other colonial armies coming to their aid. The big mistake we Indians did was to save the British arse so that now they can make gratuitous remarks about India.

 

Why dont YOU stick your head out and see yourself in the mirror.

[Gengis Khan]

Pinging you!

.....you might enjoy my responses.

[Modernman]

India is a third-world backwater joke and always will be, whether you want to pretend it's a "democracy" or not.

India is a rapidly modernizing nation that is throwing off its flirtations with socialism of the last century and taking its rightful place on the world stage.

India is also a well-established democracy. English has been spoken on the sub-continent for almost as long as on this continent. Finally, India is threatened by Islamo-fascism.

It should be clear to any thinking person that, in the 21st Century, the USA and India are natural allies.

[DM1]

An Indian woman who works for said that she wishes the British would come back.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

You bloody-well asked for the bile with your first post, mate

I am most decidedly not your "mate". Outside of Massachussetts, we don't condone that stuff here. As to the rest of your post, you're on an American site. Try learning the vernacular before you continue sounding like a character from Trailer Park Boys. And if you would come up for air, you might note that I didn't post anything about the state of the U.K. today. Perhaps such stuff is tattooed on the interior of your colon, and you read it there.