The Kohinoor, the famed and fabled gem called as the Mountain Of Light, has also consumed mountain of energy and time on countless arguments of getting it back to India. A country like India which has so many problems to look at, the top brass of the nation invest their time in diplomatic high level talks on how to get the elusive diamond back. If it's about restoring India's artefacts then it is quite baseless. India is not interested in other cultural artefacts that were taken by other rulers. Getting it back might instil some pseudo pride in us but well, it serves no purpose. Indian diplomats should better debate about the real issues plaguing the country rather than just whiling away time on something which doesn't even have a legal standing. The diamond didn't belong to Indians originally and other countries like Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan too can lay their claims on it. Whether a gift or taken by force, Kohinoor does not belong to India now and we should not obsess ourselves with it.
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