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In this day and age, it has become hard to have an opinion about something you disagree. It's either my way or highway. Things have become complex and politicized.
The goal of...
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You will come across this quote by Lord Macaulay every now and then on many nationalists or right-wing social media handles of India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Well, don't get too excited; it is a fake quote.
Many fact-checking media portals have exposed it, but still, this fake quote is on a regular circulation, and it's quite embarrassing to see such false information on popular social media handles.
The problem is, those fact-checking sites don't provide us with the actual quote said by Lord Macaulay.
Here it is.
“We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.”
Here are a couple of sources with the original Parliamentary presentation.
