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Momentous occasions and the time zones

The other day I stumbled upon the news article that an Indian Charity Foundation serving meals free of cost to the homeless and schoolchildren in London. Akshaya Patra Foundation UK/Europe had been on fundraising to help feed midday meals to millions of school children in India.         The reciprocal gesture the Foundation had shown by helping the economically marginal people of the benefactor’s country, nonetheless, it raises a few curious scenarios on my mind. Let us assume a momentous time gap when it was almost impossible to think about this magnanimous decision from both the sides or for that matter, the benefactors and the beneficiary on a reverse and different time zone, say, two hundred years back from now on. Let us move back to a time zone when India was ruled by the British. In that era, the common concept about the British in India was that they have come here to exploit only. Every British citizen from every nook and crannies of the whole island are exploiters, indulg