The sympathetic global response to the death of a British queen has thrown up an old question: why such regret? After all, there has been no worse set of international bandits, excepting Spain perhaps, than the English.
There is no atrocity that the English have not committed. Yet they are well regarded by those whom they tortured and pauperised.
I learned about these horrible people in 1973 when my friends and I took the entrance exam for the IAS, IPS, allied services, etc. We would preempt failure by saying we were sitting only for the etc. part. That proved to
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