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- What it means to be independent (The Hindu) (Free Available)
- End the judicial logjam (The Hindu) (Free Available)
- Answering Pakistan’s provocations (The Hindu) (Free Available)
- The Beijing balancing act (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Thailand’s new Constitution (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- ‘Time for a National Water Commission’ (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- A permanent address for the greatest show on earth? (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Keep a watch on food inflation (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Challenges before Urjit Patel (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Should mayors be directly elected? (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Needed: Scientific flood management (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The new war on piracy (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Citizenship without bias (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Protecting Good Samaritans (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- How to win medals in Olympics (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Investigating the Scorpene leak (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Reinventing the wheel in Kashmir (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Surrogates are workers, not wombs (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- ISRO’s scramjet on course (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The neighbour’s concern (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The ill health of the nation (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The LEMOA embrace (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Advance the Budget (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Outwards to Africa (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Our compromised ecological security (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The road to genuine reform (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- From dissent to disapproval (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The gap between rich and poor States (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Realising energy sector targets (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Obama’s last sally for a safer world (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Sri Lanka conquers malaria (The Hindu) (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- ISRO makes India proud again (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- A first step to wholesome reform (Only for Online Coaching Members)
What it means to be independent (The Hindu)
The independence that we celebrate today was won by the Indian people through a prolonged and hard struggle of epic dimensions, a larger-than-life battle in which ordinary men and women performed heroic roles. It was the culmination of a revolutionary movement which forced the rulers of an empire on which the ‘sun never set’ to surrender power to their ‘subjects’ whom they had exploited for over two centuries. It heralded the beginning of the end of colonialism, a process still called decolonisation by Western academia, to give it the appearance of a voluntary withdrawal. India was the first colony to throw off the imperial yoke, and its example inspired other countries in Asia and Africa, and by the early 1960s, most countries had become independent. The Indian national movement had supported the struggle of all colonised people, and after Independence the new Indian state under Jawaharlal Nehru’s leadership continued to do so. The non-aligned movement was part of this effort to give the newly independent countries an opportunity to keep out of the Cold War and the two power blocs and assert their independent voice without having to parrot the views of a hegemon.