India@75: some ‘if’ and ‘but’ thoughts
08 Aug 2022
India completes 75 years as a free nation next Monday. It was at midnight of August 14-15, 1947 that war-weary Britain pulled out of the Indian subcontinent after negotiating an agreement with the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League. Founded by A.O. Hume, a British bureaucrat, in 1885 with the