India celebrates the 59th year of being a Republic ( It took us 3 years to write ,debate and finalize our constitution till 1950 , when we finally got the Constitution and the President as a figure-head kind of Republic democracy).
59 years ,
One billion people,
300 million slum dogs,
many billions of software exports,
more billions of oil imports,
one cricket world cup,
one high tech unmanned mission to Moon from us and
many low tech manned terrorist strikes inflicted on us…
later-
The Indian Republic still stands as the only democracy in its neighborhood with substantial secular rights to minority religions and viewpoints.
May the republic still shine- freely.
Amen.