Early this month, when Al-Jazeera came up with an article stating that British colonialism killed more than 100 million Indians in 40 years between 1880 AD and 1920 AD, it created a sense of anger and disbelief. One thought it would create a serious debate and discussion on how one of the oldest civilisations met with a series of cataclysmic and existential assaults in the past 1,300 years. But then the story died down. It’s a matter of sheer good luck that Indians didn’t go the Persian, Greek or Roman way. Maybe they were just too many to be killed...