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18 Aug, 2025 05:00

Imperial Receipts: Shashi Tharoor confronts Britain’s colonial legacy

Imperial Receipts is an upcoming ten-part series. The brilliant intellectual Shashi Tharoor – politician, former diplomat, author, and chair of the Indian Parliament's External Affairs Committee – examines how the British systematically plundered a vast nation, discovers what was left behind, and how the empire still echoes in today’s political and economic realities. It begs the question: should the loot be returned? We dive into the archives, bringing history to life, in order to unravel the myths that continue to circulate online, tackling different facets of colonialism across ten episodes. Shashi Tharoor stitches history to the present, showing why reckoning with London’s whitewashed imperial past is essential for any honest conversation about global power today.

The show premiers on RT International on Monday, September 1 and will be aired weekly. 
Watch at 4:30 pm Moscow; 7 pm New Delhi; 9:30 am New York; 9:30 pm Beijing.

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