Journey of Freedom

This canvas has been painted by well-known Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam. The swan in the painting depicts the journey the nation has undertaken since attaining freedom. India’s succesful productive ventures are depicted on the national flag.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi
India@70

India has an opportunity to fully redeem the pledge

John Harriss
Author Nayantara Sahgal
India@70

interview | Nayantara Sahgal: Nehru’s compound was filled with refugees

Anuradha Raman
Fruitful ties: The aesthetics of Nehru blended with Gandhian ethics
India@70

Our doll’s house of memory

Shiv Visvanathan

Memories of the day

War Veteran Brig (Retd.) R.N. Mishra

Business as usual at IMA, lights went out on the dot: Brigadier (Retd.) R.N. Mishra

Dinakar Peri
Freedom fighter Muhammad Khaja Moinuddin

Azadi in the underground, when freedom came late in Hyderabad: Muhammad Khaja Moinuddin

Serish Nanisetti
Harohalli Srinivasaiah Doreswamy

Harohalli Srinivasaiah Doreswamy recalls hoisting the tricolour in Bangalore

Muralidhara Khajane
Journalist Turlapati Kutumba Rao

At Gannavaram, hoping for free train travel

J.R. SHRIDHARAN
 

It was a ‘Festival of Freedom’: Y.G. Parthasarathy

Y.G. Parthasarathy
 

We were all one on Independence: Hosbet Suresh

Hosbet Suresh
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Constituent Assembly.

Midnight to millennium

The first Indian National flag hoisted on 15th August 1947 at Fort St. George display at Fort Museum.
Radesh Singh, a Pakistani Sikh, talks at a temple in Peshawar, Pakistan. Singh's said that his grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his "simple village" in India's Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the border with Afghanistan. Seventy years after Partition of the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan’s Sikhs say neither India nor Pakistan feels like home for a young generation searching for peace and security elsewhere.
INSPIRING THE NATION Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore

Tricolour hoisted in 1947 at Fort St George still flying high

PTI

70 years after Pakistan-India split, Sikhs search for home

AP

A musical salaam to the motherland

Shailaja Khanna
Lead

Partition or Independence?

Faisal Devji
 
Comment

An overhaul at seventy

K. Shankar Bajpai
Down Memory Lane

Descent of the Tiranga

R. V. Smith
In a free country: People gather at Raisina Hills to celebrate Independence on August 15, 1947

Birth of a nation

The right standard: Cloth being carried for cutting to size at the Karnataka Khadi Gramodyog Samyukta Sangha at Hubballi in Karnataka.

True-blue Tricolour: a village in Karnataka where national flag is woven

1806: On July 16, in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, there was a large-scale and violent uprising against the East India Company by Indian sepoys. This is perhaps, the first time Indians rose up against the British.

On the freedom trail

A procession during the Quit India Movement.

In numbers: 75 years since the Quit India Movement