Modi’s visit to Heliopolis shows India is no longer ashamed of its British Army soldiers

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Having visited the Haifa Indian Cemetery in Israel in 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now paid respects at the Heliopolis (Port Tewfik) Memorial in Egypt where the war cemetery commemorates Indian soldiers who died in World War 1. This is indeed an interesting and welcome development. The dominant Indian intellectual class of the post-Independence variety has been of the Leftist persuasion. They have always been embarrassed and uncomfortable that “mercenary” Indian soldiers fought for the “racist-capitalist-imperialist” British cause. These entrenched powerful Leftists were quite okay with the Second World War, especially after July 1941 when Comrade Joseph Stalin told...