Winston Churchill as villain

Winston Churchill’s chequered career in politics included famously being British prime minister during the Second World War. He stood up to Adolf Hitler’s Nazism, inspired his people with defiant speeches never to surrender, before convincing the United States to come to Britain’s aid to win the testing confrontation — not just in Europe, but also on India’s Myanmar border against the Japanese and Subhas Bose’s Indian National Army. Yet, while he is widely revered in Britain, he is probably equally reviled in India.

Tariq Ali, a British Pakistani conspicuous for his communist convictions, clearly falls into the category of his critics