India celebrated the 74th Republic Day with all the expected pomp and splendour by way of an impressive show in New Delhi which was rightly replicated in all States and Union Territories. To see a nation positively taking on current challenges and bracing itself for anything and everything that the future may behold speaks volumes of the resilience of its people who are essentially the custodians and guardians of the Constitution that defines what this country is all about.
India is often referred to as the largest democracy in the world, the citizens cherishing the hard-fought freedoms of our forefathers and preserving the foresightedness of those who framed our constitutional framework. Yet in all this brisk ongoing debate on the status of freedom, debate and dissent there is also this element of sadness of an attempt by extremists sitting on the fringes to diminish the achievements of the last seven decades or more.
