
Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN ; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India , and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.

A Library being divided at the time of partition. Heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.

1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.
Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India


The dead - Punjab , 1947

1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of militaryand diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.

Ghandhiji Addressing people

Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946
India Celebrating 61st Independence Day on coming 15 August 2008
Wish you all a very very happy independence day
feel good as you free ,
but
make it more meaningful by giving your best to your country
