Roving Eye
D. H. Joshi
79th Independence Day
By the time members / readers receive the present GSTR, the Nation would have celebrated the Independence Day. In this connection, we recall that when we got Independence on 15 August 1947, the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhiji referred to it as a ‘Black Day’ because the Nation was divided between India and Pakistan, involving a lot of bloodshed and large number of deaths etc. Swatantrya Veer Savarkar shared the same views as Gandhiji but he further stated that history of more than 1,000+ years indicate that the Nation politically has come under one umbrella and therefore we should be happy to build a new ‘Bharat Rashtra’.
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