Independence Day 2024: India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on Thursday, August 15. India gained its freedom from the British colonial rule on August 15, 1947. The day honours the freedom ...

Independence Day 1857: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf ...

But as I travel to her capital, New Delhi, for the 70th anniversary of her independence, there is much to celebrate in this current, most modern version of India. And as both a partial outsider ...