Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech
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Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech
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During a debate at the Oxford Union on 28 May 2015, the Indian Member of Parliament, diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor delivered a speech supporting the motion "Britain owes reparations to her former colonies". Tharoor was the seventh speaker in the debate, the final speaker from the proposition, and spoke for about fifteen minutes. While criticising the opposition, he argued that British colonial rule damaged the Indian economy. Tharoor began his speech by arguing that the economic progress of
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2015 speech
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2020-05-17T06:44:43Z
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2024-09-02T07:41:19Z
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