V&A Friday Late: India

The V&A's free Friday Late on 31 August, 18.30-22.00 (6.30pm to 10pm), is part of the India Now celebrations. For details click the title link. Personally, I can't see that child labour, girl infanticide, increased pollution, fat cats getting richer and the bloodbath of Partition are worth celebrating. I'm not sure there is an official figure for the death toll of Partition, but it could be as high as two million people! It was one of the worst bouts of religious cleansing since the Nazi death camps. Don't let anyone kid you that either event was "ethnic cleansing". The endless capacity of religious bigots to butcher those of different faiths is one of the reasons I'm an atheist and why I believe that all state schools and state-supported schools should be entirely secular.