Dear BCAS Family, This 15th August, India completed 75 years of its independence. Tumultuous, testing, trying or glorious – whichever way you may describe these years, it is possibly the most significant moment for all of us. Watching the Indian tricolour fluttering in the gentle breeze and listening to the enthusiastic and melodious rendering of the National Anthem left me with a lump in my throat. It also brought to my mind an incongruous thought of how – India is five thousand years old and yet seventy-five years young!
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” this wisdom expressed by Søren Kierkegaard, set me thinking. When we somersault back in time, we realise that India is a country...a civilisation like none other. We accomplished so much on so many fronts. Our in-depth and invaluable knowledge base enabled us to build, create and surpass other nations. India became the epicentre of culture and trade. Some came to learn and others to plunder and subjugate...and down the millennia and centuries, India still continued to grow.
So, it is not surprising that after being liberated from the manacles of the greed of many colonisers, we continued to excel. In the past 75 years, we have soared to great pinnacles of perfection and achieved multiple marvels of magnificence. From queuing up for foreign aid in the fifties, we have rocketed ahead to become the fifth largest…and the f
