‘Kala Pani’ was an age-old taboo that prohibited Indians from travelling overseas. But in the early 1900s, the British used a clever workaround to move millions of Indian soldiers to fight their battles around the world. The Victory War Memorial in Chennai is one of the many monuments that honours these men.

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