View: On Independence Day, it is up to Us, the People, to uphold what the freedom movement strove for

View: On Independence Day, it is up to Us, the People, to uphold what the freedom movement strove for

Seventy years ago, India won independence from Britain. Millions of Indians took part in that epic struggle. They did so not just to drive the colonial power out but also to achieve freedom for themselves — from poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity, as the first Prime Minister said in his first … Read more