India @70 Independence Day Special - The Hindu

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 has an opportunity to fully redeem the pledge

John Harriss Indians are better fed and clothed than they were in 1947. Now they must be enabled to develop themselves according to their capacities

Author Nayantara Sahgal

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

Anuradha Raman Writer Nayantara Sahgal places the ideals of freedom she inhaled in 1947 against the future unfolding 70 years on

Fruitful ties: The aesthetics of Nehru blended with Gandhian ethics

Our doll’s house of memory

Shiv Visvanathan It is essential to be in constant conversation with the men and women who won freedom for India, and defined what true freedom meant

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

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

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Constituent Assembly.

Midnight to millennium

A quick rundown of the highs and lows, achievements and disappointments and changes in leadership that shaped independent India’s collective conscience through 70 years. It’s not an exhaustive list, but a point by point potted history of a young nation.

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

The flag, which has been in the ASI’s ‘reserve collection’ for decades, was for the first time put on public display at the Fort Museum in Fort St George complex here on January 26, 2013.

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

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Seventy years after the Indian subcontinent was partitioned by the departing British, Pakistan’s Sikhs say neither India nor Pakistan feels like home

A musical salaam to the motherland

Shailaja Khanna

Down the ages, songs have played a crucial part in unifying the people while inspiring them to devote themselves to nation building

Partition or Independence?

An overhaul at seventy

K. Shankar Bajpai We must choose national security as our overriding priority to sustain our position in a troubled world

Down Memory Lane

Descent of the Tiranga

The Tricolour represents the honour and pride of India. Read on to know how flags played an important part in mythologies and history

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: Remembering Quit India Movement

A vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is seen in this file photo.

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DMK president M.K. Stalin handing over a letter of his election as Legislature Party Leader to Governor Banwarilal Purohit on May 5, 2021. Photo: Special Arrangement

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Relatives and friends wait outside the Sumanahalli crematorium with the bodies of their loved ones in ambulances, during the weekend lockdown, in Bengaluru on April 25, 2021.

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A patient being taken in an auto-rickshaw to the COVID-19 Ward at King George Hospital, in Visakhapatnam on Monday.

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Photo: aiimsrishikesh.edu.in

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Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma

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Non air-conditioned provision and grocery stores and meat stalls can remain open till 12 noon and with 50% customers.

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A COVID-19 patient on oxygen support waits in an ambulance for admission, in Visakhapatnam on May 7, 2021.

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