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"Who is the greatest Briton?"
Sir Isaac Newton, according to the recent poll on BBC World. The nationals of all the Commonwealth nations were allowed to participate in this exercise and the poll threw up a couple of intersting results. For one, I believed Sir Winston Churchill to top the list but the former Prime Minister had to be content with only the runner-up position. If, only the British were allowed to vote may be Churchill would have made it to the top. Most of the former colonies would have voted against Churchill for his haughty stance against granting independence to the colonies. His opinion about the Queen's subjects in the distant was not exactly in flattering light and often imbued with racial slur. No other person in the entire imperial history of Great Britain would have believed with more vehemence and arrogance the racial superiority of the Whites as a race. His acerbic comments on Gandhiji are all too well known. But no one can deny the person was extremely witty, though mostly sarcastic, and a great statesman. His credentials as a war-time journalist, his literary exploits are no small attributes.
The only regret I had about the list was the third position. It so happened that our fat bull dog was on top of the delicate and charming princess, Diana...No pun intended ;) Now don't ask me how Diana ended up so high edging persons like Shakespeare and Darwin. Survival of the fittest I should say.....
posted by Hash at 5:57 AM