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“U.K. must return Koh-i-noor”

London: As the Indian government steps up efforts to halt the sale of Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles and sandals in New York, his great grandson has asked Britain to return the famous Koh-i-noor diamond, which was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850.

Forty-nine-year-old Tushar Gandhi urged the Indian authorities to do more for the return of other treasures. “If the jewels of Windsor were held by an Arab sheikh, then Britain wouldn’t really like that. I’d love to see it [Koh-i-noor] back in India. Returning it would be atonement for the colonial past,” he was quoted as saying by The Times newspaper. — PTI

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