As citizens of Independent India, we must fulfil our basic duties even as we guard fundamental rights
With pomp and splendour, for sure. But also by taking a few minutes for quiet reflection. On whether we, as citizens, have fulfilled our part of the grand bargain. Or have we, with constant harping on narrow sub-national identities of caste, language, religion, etc, given credence to former British leader Winston Churchill’s old put-down, “India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator.”
