AOC's Chief-Of-Staff Wears T-Shirt Featuring Nazi Collaborator

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157. I can't see any reason for anyone anywhere to admire Bose today

especially given what we know about the Germans and Japanese as conquerers in that era. So I'll agree that it's entirely idiotic of Chakrabarti to wear a Bose t-shirt.

I'm generally unsympathetic to hardcore nationalists but I do think the Bose story might look very different to Indian nationalists. India's experience as a colony was not always pleasant. The Foreign Office had some reputation for encouraging local tensions as part of a divide-and-rule technique; extraction of Indian wealth may actually have bankrolled the industrial revolution in England; and the local population sometimes suffered terribly:

The Bengal famine of 1943 ..was a major famine of the Bengal province in British India during World War II. An estimated 2.1–3 million, out of a population of 60.3 million, died of starvation, or of malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions and lack of health care. Millions were impoverished as the crisis overwhelmed large segments of the economy and social fabric. Historians have frequently characterised the famine as "man-made", asserting that wartime colonial policies created and then exacerbated the crisis ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943