Independence Day

PM announces demography mission, praises RSS role in nation building

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This might the be the first time that the constructive role and activities of the RSS have been referred to by a Prime Minister in an Independence Day address

The Song of the Nation

TCA Raghavan

National anthems, like national flags and independence days, are shortcuts to patriotism. Their elevation to iconic status makes them supersede their immediate contexts by becoming timeless emblems of peoples nations

Edicts from the Meatless

Madhavankutty Pillai

What sense does a meat ban on Independence Day make?

The Balcony

Siddhartha Menon

A poem

Independence

Dipankar Gupta

A celebration in verse

India and the Two Wings of Pakistan

Swapan Dasgupta

Is there something in our DNA that makes our sense of freedom and democracy more enduring

Rites of Freedom

S Prasannarajan

It takes a country like India, in its 78th year of Independence, to turn the arguments of freedom into a national urgency for change—without hurting democracy