Earlier this month, I went on a tour of Portugal, a country I have always wanted to visit because of a man I had first heard about 35 years ago — Henry the Navigator. He was the man who started Portugal exploring down the Atlantic, along the West African coast between 1425 and 1450.
Portugal exceeded all expectations by a factor of 1,000. It is a truly wonderful country that is not on the Indian tourists’ radar screen at all.
But this article is not about tourism. It is about how countries treat their histories and their heroes. The two countries of
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