At the stroke of the midnight hour on August 15, 1947, India, which represents the unbroken chain of a civilisation that had once been denied the right to determine its destiny, reclaimed that right. Illustration by The Geostrata Our first Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru called it a moment when India would “awake to life and freedom.” Hidden later in the same speech was perhaps a more important idea: the achievement of independence was only “a step, an opening of opportu

“ Reality is, after all, too vast for our frail understanding to fully grasp. Nonetheless, we must build our lives on the theory that...

Once the British realised that retaining their control over the Indian subcontinent was impossible, they had plans to divide British...