Tag: Patriot

The Sceptical Patriot Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Glories


Free Download Sidin Vadukut, "The Sceptical Patriot: Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Glories"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 8129129035 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 0.3 mb
India. A land where history, myth and email forwards have come together to create a sense of a glorious past that is awe-inspiring…and also kind of dubious. But that is what happens when your future is uncertain and your present is kind of bad it gets embellished until it becomes a totem of greatness and a portent of potential. Sidin Vadukut takes on a complete catalogue of India’s Greatest Hits and ventures to separate the wheat of fact from the chaff of legend. Did India really invent the zero? Has it truly never invaded a foreign country in over 1,000 years? Did Indians actually invent plastic surgery before those insufferable Europeans? The truth is more interesting and complicated than you think.

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How to Be a Patriot Why Love of Country Can End Our Very British Culture War [Audiobook]


Free Download How to Be a Patriot: Why Love of Country Can End Our Very British Culture War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXM46KZN | 2023 | 7 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 208 MB
Author: Sunder Katwala
Narrator: Sunder Katwala

On race, nationhood, belonging and Britain’s identity crisis. Sunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British. And feeling British was getting much easier once the banana-throwing racists on the football terraces and Norman Tebbit’s divisive cricket test gave way to a softer patriotism as the spirit of the Britpop era carried through to Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. Gazza’s tears and Gareth Southgate had changed what it meant to be English too.

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