Of that Freedom Day

Ramachandra Guha concludes in his article on India's 65th Independence Day that:

• Sixty-five years after the British departed, the Republic of India remains a work in progress. The experiment has clearly not failed; nor has it emphatically succeeded. Home to the most elevating as well as the most depressing aspects of the human experience, it inspires — in this citizen at any rate —pride and embarrassment in equal measure.

Swaminathan Aiyar on Independence Day: Why Partition was a good thing for India