drieddust

To be fair if responding to nationalist and religious comments is considered flamewar, then I do not care that you have banned my account.

If that's your measuring stick then Adolf should get the credit for creating the right condition.

European colonial power would have never left if they hadn't got into war of attrition with Hitlar.

British left their biggest colony India only when Indian soldiers revolted and they were too weak to crush it post WW2. It was simply not possible to rule after this incident.

She and her family is responsible for a lot of atrocities around the world. Yet a lot of people here are eulogizing as if she was a saint who taught art of living to the people.

To me this is a demonstration of power of conditioning and media management.

> India as a whole didn't even exist back then...

Vishnu Puran composed circa 400 BCE to 900 CE says.

  उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् | वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र सन्ततिः ||

 Land that lies north to the sea and south of Himalaya is called Bharat(India) and it's people Bharti (Indian)

Political system was diffrent from what we see today. But that doesn't mean land called Bharat didn't exist culturally and politically.