EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Aug 21, 2021
3 minutes
(Aroon Purie)
On August 15, 2022, India celebrates 75 eventful years of being the world’s largest democracy. There is much to be grateful for. At Independence, we were an impoverished, underdeveloped nation, where just over 18 per cent of the people could read or write, the average citizen could hope to live up to the age of 32, and everything, from food to healthcare centres, doctors, institutions and industries, was in short supply. This, when our population was 350 million compared to 1.3 billion currently. At the end of 74 years, we have made impressive strides
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