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India After Independence
Essay on India After Independence
By vidyadharghate on June 29, 2011 in Essays
India got freedom on 15th August 1947. Many unknown heroes risked their lives so that all of us may breathe in freedom. Achieving independence was a tremendous task.
After the building of the country began in right earnest. India is heading towards major superpower in the world. During the last sixty years, India has seen many up and downs.
Typically speaking, if a person reaches 63 years of age, he is labeled as an ‘Old Crippled’. One can construe the picture of a man who is bed-ridden, invalid and too old to respond to any kind of treatment.
He just lay aside, cherishing its blooming youthful days or he employs his time by playing with his grandchildren, but now the things have changed.
India is a 63 years old country, but is still very young, highly energetic and is working enthusiastically towards its betterment. India was free from the clutches of British in 1947.
We still remember those stalwarts who sacrificed their lives to free us from British’ cage enabling us to fly freely, independently in the air.
We all know and have studied umpteen numbers of times about it in our History books. We studied what all “Our Father of the Nation”- “Mahatma Gandhi” did. We all our aware of the Jaliianwala Bagh tragedy and many such sacrifices.
We normally say that British ruled our country – they exploited us. But, what they have given us is unity. They united our country. However, we remained united till their time only, what happened after that? Today in most of the families the two brothers are at daggers drawn with each other. Everyone under the sun has become self-centered. We all curse British, but become eagerly excited, over-enthusiast ic when we get an opportunity to go abroad, like to the Big Apple. After all, who wants to stay in a country endowed with unemployment, extreme poverty, filthiness, corruption, dowry deaths and all other social evils, but remember the case of

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