For all of the Bose statues in India now, you don't hear much about the Indian refugees fleeing Burma as a result of Japanese advancement

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There's a sense that you could write off the moral weight of the Pacific War as just a clash of Empire vs Empire outside of the Sino-Japanese war, but the colonial subjects seemed to clearly understand who the worse option was.

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i think given the size of asia it's understandable that each country just talks about what happened in their own territory but it is regrettable nonetheless

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it really is remarkable how absent the Indian contribution to World War II is in mass media about the war, or the Asian theatre outside direct US-Japan conflicts

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