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OPINION - INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL AUGUST 19, 2022 6

75 Years of Free, Progressive

and Growing India

Chief of the Army Staff, General Manoj Pande recently reviewed the security situation along
the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China (ANI)

AMBASSADOR ANIL TRIGUNAYAT Students form a human chain displaying 75 as part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to mark the 75 years of India’s Independence,
in Mirzapur on Saturday (ANI Photo)
eventy-five years of free India
are replete with stupendous colonial masters who were forced national interest and cause of peace ed and administrative system which
Sachievements. These become to lift their colonial shackles by the and development especially for the was geared to serve interests of the
more remarkable because the coun- Gandhian non-violent movements. developing and underdeveloped colonial masters. In the last over
try had to make a ‘Tryst with Desti- This was even more difficult as the world. It became a champion for the seven decades, India has engineered
ny’ bringing out an exploited 1/6th world was divided into Cold War rights of oppressed people at the in- Green, Yellow and White Revolu-
of the humanity from the vagaries of adversaries and bloc politics which ternational fora while discharging its tions with continuous upgradation
the colonial yoke. Hence, the major India could not have subscribed to. obligations as a responsible interna- in technology in the agricultural and
challenges included socio-econom- Hence, India not only stood and tional actor and a voice of reason. food processing areas not only to
ic development and nation building helped in the emancipation of large India, before the advent of the meet demand of a burgeoning pop-
through education and industrial number of colonized countries but colonial powers, contributed to over ulation but has also emerged as a net
development, eradication of pover- also created a third way with a more a quarter of the global GDP that exporter and helper to the world. In-
ty, food self-sufficiency in a drought equitable force in the form of NAM went down to less than 4% when dia has also emerged as credible nu-
hit era with a divided nation by the (Non-Aligned Movement) to serve they left with her industry decimat- Continued at next page... >>

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