In the times of Akbar , jahangir and Shah jahan we were the richest in the world. Almost 40% of world trade was from India. When the Britishers left in 47 our share in the world trade was hardly 2.5 %. By some estimates in 200 years they sucked out around 7500 billion from India

— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) January 14, 2019